Re: [ovs-discuss] newbie discovering ovs

2011-01-21 Thread Xavier COUDIN
Well, some half-good news. It's almost working. Did not recompile as kernel-module yet. VirtualBox can create pseudo-ethernet interface , to put the VMs in local network (limited to the host). The name of those interfaces are vboxnet0 (vboxnet1,...). If cleary appear in the ifconfig of th

Re: [ovs-discuss] newbie discovering ovs

2011-01-20 Thread Henrique Rodrigues
> > So finally an important question probably is : how do I create tap0 and > tap1 ? And what network-configuration should I give to them (probably > dhcp-client) ? These virtual interfaces (tab0 and tab1) are supposed to be created by the hypervisor, not by you. Xen, for example, creates virtua

Re: [ovs-discuss] newbie discovering ovs

2011-01-20 Thread Xavier COUDIN
Yes, the ovs is running in the host-machine, not in the VMs. This way, the ovs is running on the same level as the VirtualBox infrastructure. The bridges and their ports must be created on the host level, and then should be visible as available interfaces in the hypervisor, and then should be av

Re: [ovs-discuss] newbie discovering ovs

2011-01-20 Thread Xavier COUDIN
Ben Pfaff a écrit : On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 09:51:31AM +0100, Xavier COUDIN wrote: I installed ovs from sources. Compilation was OK, initialization was OK. I chose to compile-install it without kernel module, so that means as userspace. Maybe in the future I will compile kernel modules, but I

Re: [ovs-discuss] newbie discovering ovs

2011-01-19 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 09:51:31AM +0100, Xavier COUDIN wrote: > I installed ovs from sources. Compilation was OK, initialization was OK. > I chose to compile-install it without kernel module, so that means > as userspace. Maybe in the future I will compile kernel modules, but > I prefered to test

Re: [ovs-discuss] newbie discovering ovs

2011-01-19 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 02:50:57PM +0100, Xavier COUDIN wrote: > note: I am just sorry that this "ovs-vsctl list-ports br0" gives as > a result only the name of the ports, and does not give also the > vlan-id associated to each port. Could this improvement be included > in the next releases of ovs

Re: [ovs-discuss] newbie discovering ovs

2011-01-19 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:11 AM, Xavier COUDIN wrote: > Now, when we use ovs  (I mean, we try to make it work).. > the "brctl show" gives no answer :  just columns "bridge name   bridge id >  STP enabled  Interface" , but no answer below it. OVS doesn't use "brctl", it uses "ovs-vsctl".

Re: [ovs-discuss] newbie discovering ovs

2011-01-19 Thread Xavier COUDIN
Thanks to all for you quick support, I will try to explain my actual situation. I created yesterday a bride br0 within ocs (using ovs-vsctl) ovs-vsctl list-br gives as result "br0" ovs-vsctl list-ports br0 gives as result : 6 lines of the different ports I created note: I am just sorr

Re: [ovs-discuss] newbie discovering ovs

2011-01-19 Thread Henrique Rodrigues
Hi Xavier, I'm using the setup openvswitch+vmware for testing my code. I'm replying because I had a similar problem in understanding the ovs ifaces at the beginning... I'm assuming you've installed ovs within the virtual box vm. The vm has only two interfaces, one of them is the vm's physical inte

Re: [ovs-discuss] newbie discovering ovs

2011-01-19 Thread Xavier COUDIN
Le 19/01/2011 10:06, Justin Pettit a écrit : On Jan 19, 2011, at 12:51 AM, Xavier COUDIN wrote: There is one thing I cannot understand for the moment. Probably I still need to be more familiar with the ovs concept. I can bind the virtualswitch ( = bridge) to eth0. But I would like to bind

Re: [ovs-discuss] newbie discovering ovs

2011-01-19 Thread Justin Pettit
On Jan 19, 2011, at 12:51 AM, Xavier COUDIN wrote: > There is one thing I cannot understand for the moment. Probably I still need > to be more familiar with the ovs concept. > I can bind the virtualswitch ( = bridge) to eth0. > But I would like to bind also the virtual-machines (that I created in

[ovs-discuss] newbie discovering ovs

2011-01-19 Thread Xavier COUDIN
hello, I am a new user of ovs. I try to use it together with a virtualbox architecture on a linux-ubuntu-host computer. Until now I was just using Wmware Esxi, So VirtualBox + ovs is quite new to me. I installed ovs from sources. Compilation was OK, initialization was OK. I chose to compile-i