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On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Tyrion Lannister <[email protected]>wrote: > Thanks. This worked. Now I cannot create VMs using virt-install or > virt-manager. Is this not supported? With virt-install, I get an error > saying > "Failed to add tap interface to bridge. br0 is not a bridge device" > > As per the instructions, I have removed the bridge module and want to use > the ovs. I see the source has this thing called ovsbrcompat, but I am not > necessarily looking to get the linux bridge compatibility. > > Tyrion > > > On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > >> "dhclient br0" should work. This is the same behavior as the Linux >> bridge, so if you've used that, then this works the same way. >> >> rhel/README.RHEL in the source distribution has some information on Red >> Hat network script integration. It was contributed; I haven't >> personally tried it. >> >> On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 06:22:38PM -0800, Tyrion Lannister wrote: >> > Thanks. But the IP is coming from DHCP. How do I enable DHCP on the >> bridge? >> > And how do I prevent eth0 from getting that IP address? I am assuming I >> > dont have to go muck with ifcfg-eth0 under >> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts >> > nor do I have to create ifcfg-br0 in the same place. >> > >> > Tyrion >> > >> > On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > > On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 06:03:02PM -0800, Tyrion Lannister wrote: >> > > > I just installed OpenVswitch 1.3.0 on Centos 6 with KVM QEMU. I >> have some >> > > > basic questions: >> > > > >> > > > 1) I add a bridge br0 - ovs-vsctl add-br br0 >> > > > 2) I attach eth0 to br0 - ovs-vsctl add-port br0 eth0 >> > > > >> > > > I havent added any VMs yet, but I expect to still reach the >> hypervisor >> > > > using IP. >> > > > >> > > > eth0 is getting an IP address from the network using DHCP. But it >> is not >> > > > pingable anymore. >> > > > >> > > > Shouldnt eth0 be a slave of br0 at this point. Shouldnt it be >> bridge0 >> > > that >> > > > should own the address? How does one talk to the hypervisor at this >> > > point? >> > > >> > > Yes. Put the IP address on br0. >> > > >> > > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > >
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