Hi Praveen, Some comments inline.
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Praveen Reguraman <[email protected]> wrote: > I tried your script and still ran into > the same issue. But I think libvirt also uses a similar way of trying to > bring the interface up and I had a problem in the creation of the VM since > it was failing on TAP/TUN interface. Last I checked libvirt didn't have support for passing a custom qemu-ifup script. >Turns out that it started working fine > when I installed it in bridge compatible mode and used the brctl commands. > May be the br_compat.ko brought in the TUN/TAP drivers for the kernel, which > was probably not there. I had tried 'modprobe tun' and had a fatal error > saying 'tun not found'. However, I learned that with Ubuntu Lucid Lynx, TUN > module is built into the kernel. Somehow, the whole thing was confusing to > me when it worked. > Should it be that Openvswitch is always in br_compat mode? The bridge compatibility mode is only for backwards compatibility. > Or Could I use > some kind of fake bridge and work this around? It is possible to ovs switches (bridges) to work with KVM, but maybe it is still non-obvious. I'll make an attempt today or tomorrow and try to post a quick howto. Todd -- Todd Deshane http://todddeshane.net http://runningxen.com _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_openvswitch.org
