Hi Justin, Thanks a lot for the quick response! I'll try it out and report back.
I would still like to hear more details from the people that tried it out (e.g. does VBox Internal/Host Networking modes also work, etc), but this should get me started. Thanks, Guilherme On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Justin Pettit <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Guilherme. I have not personally run OVS with VirtualBox, but we've > had reports that it works with Linux as the host. Doing a quick pass > through their documentation, it appears that you should be able to make it > work simply by running OVS with bridge compatibility. This is documented in > INSTALL.bridge in the distribution. You can also browse the documentation > here: > > > http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=openvswitch;a=blob_plain;f=INSTALL.bridge > > If you run into any problems, feel free to send questions to this list. If > you get it working, we'd love to hear about that, too! > > --Justin > > > On Mar 27, 2010, at 6:43 PM, Guilherme Fernandes wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm interested in creating a virtual dev environment with several pcs and > a manageable (virtual) switch with VLAN support. I already use VirtualBox > for some of the machines, so I would like to add OVS into the mix. > > > > I've seen a few pages mentioning OVS supports open source VirtualBox, but > I can find no documentation at all about it. Is the mentioned support being > that it can be used as a drop-in for VirtualBox's vswitch? If so, is this > accomplished by just installing OVS on the Linux host where VirtualBox will > run? Can someone elaborate a little on how they integrate? > > > > Thanks a lot in advance, > > Guilherme > > _______________________________________________ > > discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_openvswitch.org > >
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