On May 2, 2011, at 3:00 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 02:51:14PM -0700, David Erickson wrote:
>> I've noticed that OVS isn't connecting to the controller on
>> boot/reboot, is there an option somewhere I need to set to enable
>> this? On further inspection when I run ovs-vsctl list bridge it
>> looks like the bridge lost both its controller entry and its
>> other_config:datapath-id. Is there a persist or save command I need
>> to issue after setting these things?
>
> What happens at boot is this:
>
> * OVS tears down and destroys all bridges, because XenServer
> expects to re-create each one at boot.
>
> * OVS refreshes the manager (OVSDB connection) from the
> XenServer (XAPI) database.
>
> * XenServer creates each of the bridges. No controller is
> set.
>
> * The manager is supposed to set the controller for each
> bridge as it likes, using the OVSDB connection to do so.
I answered a very similar question a couple of weeks ago, and described a
couple different possible solutions:
http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/discuss/2011-April/005080.html
--Justin
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