On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 02:57:06PM +0900, Derek Cormier wrote: > I am trying to set up an Open vSwitch configuration where OVS is > installed on a virtual machine and other virtual machines connect to > it. I am using Virtual Box. Because I have only begun to study > networking, this is naturally difficult for me. After reading the > documentation, I still cannot figure out how to connect a port from > the virtual switch to a port on another virtual machine. The switch > vm has a host-only network to my machine and the other vm's are > connected to the switch via an internal network > (http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch06.html has a description of > these network types).
It sounds like you're putting OVS in one VM and expecting it to switch traffic for other VMs. There's a conceptual and a practical problem with that, because there has to be something in the middle to connect the other VMs to the OVS VMs, and that thing in the middle is probably a switch. So you'll end up with layered switches. It might work--I use a setup a little like this for testing Open vSwitch for development purposes--but it's hard to see benefit in it. You are probably better off doing what Justin suggested, that is, replacing the host switch by OVS. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_openvswitch.org
