The KVM installation guide at http://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/en-US/Apache_CloudStack/4.1.0/html/Installation_Guide/hypervisor-kvm-install-flow.html , is unnecessary complicated and inaccurate. For example, we don't need to configure vlan on kvm host by users themselves, cloudstack-agent will create vlans automatically. All users need to do is to create bridges(if the default bridge created by cloudstack-agent is not enough), then add these bridge names from cloudstack mgt server UI during the zone creation.
-----Original Message----- From: Noel Kendall [mailto:noeldkend...@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 9:49 AM To: us...@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: CS 4.1.0 - this will help a number of people who struggle with Advanced Networking The documentation for installation in a KVM environment is utterly misleading. The documentation reads as though one can set up the bridge for the public network with any name one chooses, the default being cloudbr0. You cannot use just any old name. That simply will not work. Let's suppose I have a public network that I isolate on VLAN 5, which is interfaced on ethernet adapter eth4. I will need to define an adapter eth4.5 with VLAN set to yes. So far, so good. Next, for the bridge... By enabling debugging output in the log, I was able to see that the code looks for a bridge with the name cloudVirBr5 for my public network. I had tried several different approaches, none would work if I did not name my bridge cloudVirBr5, and set my traffic label on the network configurationto the same. I have seen numerous posts in the mailing lists, blog entries, you name it, representing frustrations of throngs of users trying to validate a CS setup. The documentation is utterly wrong and misleading. Summary: does not work:traffic label: cloudbr0 with eth4.5 pointing to cloudbr0 - code still tries to create a breth4.5 and enlist eth4.5 to it but cannot because it is already enlisted to cloudbr0. Good luck everyone with advanced networking with VLAN isolation on CentOS KVM hosts.
