On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 6:58 PM, Chip Childers <chipchild...@apache.org>wrote:

> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 03:16:28PM -0700, Sheng Yang wrote:
> > FS at:
> >
> https://cwiki.apache.org/CLOUDSTACK/pvlan-for-isolation-within-a-vlan.html
> >
> > PVLAN branch has been under development for some time, and now the
> > functionality works on KVM and Xen, would be followed by VMware soon
> >
> > VM live migration is not supported so far. Code is ready basically, but I
> > am waiting for the fix of
> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-1638 .
> >
> > We're using ovs/open flow to manipulate ingress/egress traffic to emulate
> > the isolation PVLAN function on KVM and Xen. The details are in the FS.
> >
> > The core code change is minimal and there is no DB change, because we
> took
> > advantage of "broadcast domain" to introduce "pvlan://" broadcast URI to
> > describe the primary and isolated PVLAN for the network.
> >
> > The code has passed the RAT, and no new dependency is added.
>
> How is the OpenFlow functionality controlled?  Via libvirt?
>

No, CS would execute the ovs-ofctl command. Libvirt(in kvm) would in charge
of allocating vlan etc, but won't involve in openflow part.

--Sheng

>
> >
> > I've added a new integration smoke test test_pvlan.py. Related unit tests
> > are also added for NetUtils. I've done some basic regression tests, so
> far
> > so good. Sangeetha already tested the functionality of Xen part, and it
> > works.
> >
> > Integration test at: test/integration/smoke/test_pvlan.py
> >
> > If there is no objection, I would merge the branch in 48 hours.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > --Sheng
>

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