Sorry, I missed this one email. This turned out to be the reason. Everything went fine when I stopped the OVS instance on my host. Thanks for looking into this.
Thanks On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Gurucharan Shetty <[email protected]> wrote: > Let me make one guess. Are you running OVS daemons both inside a > container as wells as outside the container (and you are running the > container where it shared the pid and network space with the host?) If > you are doing it, you are stepping on each other's toes and it is > expected that bridge created by one ovs-vswitchd will be deleted by > bridge created by another ovs-vswitchd. > > If you just want to create a OVS bridge inside a container, don't run > your container and ask it to share the host's network. Or the other > option is don't start OVS in the host. > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Gurucharan Shetty <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Abhishek Chanda >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Sorry for being vague. >>> >>> I am trying to run neutron in a container. A container runs neutron >>> and OVS in host mode. >> What do you mean when you say that a container runs OVS in host mode? >> Sorry for being fussy, but the above can mean different things and I >> don't want to guess. So instead of you trying to frame your problem, >> let me show how I can create OVS bridge inside a container. >> >> >> * Create a container >> root@ubuntu14:~# docker run -d --pid=host --net=host ubuntu /bin/sh >> -c "while true; do echo hello world; sleep 1; >> done"6d5508adca20a4c60d9fb35c18e88170852ffe6b63775c27013188034b7a7393 >> >> * Enter the container >> root@ubuntu14:~# docker-enter >> 6d5508adca20a4c60d9fb35c18e88170852ffe6b63775c27013188034b7a7393 >> >> * Install OVS inside the container >> root@ubuntu14:~# apt-get update >> Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty InRelease >> Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates InRelease >> Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-security InRelease >> Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty Release.gpg >> Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates Release.gpg [933 B] >> Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-security Release.gpg [933 B] >> Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty Release >> Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates Release [62.0 kB] >> Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-security Release [62.0 kB] >> Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty/main Sources [1335 kB] >> Get:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty/restricted Sources [5335 B] >> Get:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty/universe Sources [7926 kB] >> Get:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty/main amd64 Packages [1743 kB] >> Get:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty/restricted amd64 Packages [16.0 kB] >> Get:10 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty/universe amd64 Packages [7589 kB] >> Get:11 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/main Sources [229 kB] >> Get:12 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/restricted Sources [1874 B] >> Get:13 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/universe Sources [130 kB] >> Get:14 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages [557 kB] >> Get:15 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/restricted amd64 >> Packages [14.8 kB] >> Get:16 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/universe amd64 Packages [329 >> kB] >> Get:17 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-security/main Sources [86.9 kB] >> Get:18 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-security/restricted Sources [1874 B] >> Get:19 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-security/universe Sources [19.6 kB] >> Get:20 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-security/main amd64 Packages [269 kB] >> Get:21 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-security/restricted amd64 >> Packages [14.8 kB] >> Get:22 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-security/universe amd64 >> Packages [113 kB] >> Fetched 20.5 MB in 14s (1461 kB/s) >> Reading package lists... Done >> >> >> root@ubuntu14:~# apt-get install openvswitch-switch >> Reading package lists... Done >> Building dependency tree >> Reading state information... Done >> The following extra packages will be installed: >> libpython-stdlib libpython2.7-minimal libpython2.7-stdlib openssl >> openvswitch-common python python-minimal python2.7 python2.7-minimal >> uuid-runtime >> Suggested packages: >> ca-certificates ethtool openvswitch-datapath-module python-doc python-tk >> python2.7-doc binutils binfmt-support >> The following NEW packages will be installed: >> libpython-stdlib libpython2.7-minimal libpython2.7-stdlib openssl >> openvswitch-common openvswitch-switch python python-minimal python2.7 >> python2.7-minimal uuid-runtime >> 0 upgraded, 11 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded. >> Need to get 5543 kB of archives. >> After this operation, 23.3 MB of additional disk space will be used. >> Do you want to continue? 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(2.0.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1) ... >> Setting up openvswitch-switch (2.0.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1) ... >> invoke-rc.d: policy-rc.d denied execution of start. >> Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-16) ... >> >> * Start OVS inside the container >> >> root@ubuntu14:~# /etc/init.d/openvswitch-switch start >> * /etc/openvswitch/conf.db does not exist >> * Creating empty database /etc/openvswitch/conf.db >> * Starting ovsdb-server >> * Configuring Open vSwitch system IDs >> * Starting ovs-vswitchd >> * Enabling remote OVSDB managers >> root@ubuntu14:~# ovs-vsctl show >> 76eb6660-c7ac-4dc1-8ee7-ebbfeee46175 >> ovs_version: "2.0.2" >> root@ubuntu14:~# ovs-vsctl add-br br0 >> root@ubuntu14:~# ovs-vsctl show >> 76eb6660-c7ac-4dc1-8ee7-ebbfeee46175 >> Bridge "br0" >> Port "br0" >> Interface "br0" >> type: internal >> ovs_version: "2.0.2" >> root@ubuntu14:~# >> root@ubuntu14:~# ip link show br0 >> 807: br0: <BROADCAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN >> mode DEFAULT group default >> link/ether 0a:e2:0e:ca:f3:47 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff >> root@ubuntu14:~# >> root@ubuntu14:~# >> >> * Exit the container and see whether "br0" is visible inside the host >> >> root@ubuntu14:~# exit >> logout >> root@ubuntu14:~# ip link show br0 >> 807: br0: <BROADCAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN >> mode DEFAULT group default >> link/ether 0a:e2:0e:ca:f3:47 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff >> root@ubuntu14:~# _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
