On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 16:32:48 +0000 (UTC) Markus Ose <[email protected]> wrote:
> I´m a Network Engineer and Freelancer and I`m a newbie on both sides, > Ubuntu and Open vSwitch. My intention is to get a deeper experience in > network virtualization and therefore I want to install Open vSwitch > on my Ubuntu 12.04 host. I followed the installation description from > this link * > http://blog.allanglesit.com/2012/03/linux-kvm-ubuntu-12-04-with-openvswitch/ > * but I don´t get running the *brcompat* modul. > The module seems to be available, but it´s not loaded. For what purpose do you intend to use this module? As I understand it, the only thing brcompat enables is to control openvswitch with native brctl commands. You don't need it if you simply use the ovs-vsctl program to take care of all the device management. I think I even remember reading Ben Pfaff's suggestion somewhere to not use the module at all, unless you really need to. If you want to learn OpenVSwitch, best to learn it with its own set of tools. The man page ovs-vsctl(8) is quite elaborate, I will happily admit that I (too) still have a long list of questions, much remains unclear for now. But the effort in learning OpenVSwitch is certainly worth it. If you still think that you absolutely need (or want) brcompat to be loaded, do make sure that you have not loaded the bridge module. In fact, bridge shouldn't even be loaded if you have loaded openvswitch into the kernel. Fréderich. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
