Thanx Ansis for reply.
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Ansis Atteka <aatt...@nicira.com> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 11:27 PM, freak 62 <mailto...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> >> I am using Ubuntu 12.10. I am trying to launch VM on the bridge of >> OVS. >> Can I do that with virt-manager ? or Is there any other way?? >> > Virt-manager is one of the UI applications that use libvirt. If I recall > correctly, then virt-manager uses virt-install to create domain XML file > and then it simply asks libvirt to start that VM. > > Virt-manager is different project and your best chances are to ask them > this question. Though, several months ago I checked that myself and there > wasn't Open vSwitch support for virt-manager. > > >> Can I run the existing VM's to my openvswitch bridge ? >> I tried to edit existing VM's XML file. I changed the interface type >> a/c to my bridge but while launching I am getting error: >> > Yes, manually editing the domain XML file is the right way to do that. > >> >> <interface type='bridge'>$ >> >> <mac address='86:4d:18:1b:4c:44'/>$ >> >> <source bridge='br-int'/>$ >> >> <virtualport type='openvswitch'>$ >> >> <parameters interfaceid='ce1d35cf-c1fb-59e5-d2e2-bfef4394eb7f'/>$ >> >> </virtualport>$ >> >> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' >> function='0x0'/>$ >> </interface>$ >> >> error: Failed to start domain vm-1 >> error: Unable to add port vnet1 to OVS bridge br-int: Operation not >> permitted >> > >> My libvirtd version is 0.9.13 >> >> Also my *ovsdb-server* is not running on Unix domain server socket but >> on the TCP port . >> > You have to run ovsdb-server locally, because libvirt invokes ovs-vsctl > without "--db" flag (this implies that by default > "unix:/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock" is used) > So there is no way that one can launch VM, when ovsdb-server runs on TCP port ? I was wondering then how *OpenStack *uses *OpenVSwitch *on compute-nodes where *openvswitch *runs on *tcp port. *If it works with *openstack *, then it should work here also.Looking forward for ur input. Thanx > >> >> >> >> >> Thanx >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dev mailing list >> dev@openvswitch.org >> http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev >> >> >
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