Hello,
I followed your advice and I built the network manager from source. I have
Ubuntu 16.04 installed.
I tried to built network manager 1.20.4 version for the aforementioned
version of Ubuntu but I hit wall because that version of network manager
has build dependencies that are just missing for Ubuntu 16.04.
At the end of the day I managed to build it but I had to download all the
building dependencies from Ubuntu folcan repository because the
dependencies form Xenial repository were outdated.
After building it I installed it with the ovs-plugin included and seems to
work like a charm but I do not recommend the procedure that I followed
because in a xenial system I had to install everything from folcan
repository which was ugly.
Thanks for the help
Regards,
Dimitris
Στις Τρί, 18 Φεβ 2020 στις 5:28 μ.μ., ο/η Thomas Haller <thal...@redhat.com>
έγραψε:
> On Tue, 2020-02-18 at 16:23 +0100, Dimitrios Markou via networkmanager-
> list wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I am trying to configure ovs bridges and ports through networkmanager
> > cli. When I execute the commands the status I get is successful but
> > when I run the ovs-vsctl show Now bridges are configured.
> >
> > I assume that I need a NetworkManager-ovs plugin like this [0] but I
> > cannot find something similar for Ubuntu systems. If there is no
> > plugin package for debian based systems can somebody point to the
> > source code for this plugin and i will try to build it form source.
>
> Hi,
>
>
> You don't mention which Ubuntu version. But regardless of that, Ubuntu
> packages don't seem to include the OVS plugin ("libnm-device-plugin-
> ovs.so").
>
>
>
> These device plugins don't have a stable ABI. That means, you usually
> also need to build a matching NetworkManager (or, take very very good
> care that the NetworkManager you run is ABI compatible with the plugin.
> But no, just rebuild NetworkManager too).
>
> I would suggest you rebuild the Ubuntu source package, and adjust the
> package to include the OVS plugin. I don't know how to do that, but
> this is more a general Ubuntu packaging question.
> For autotools, you'd pass `--enable-ovs` to `./configure`.
> For meson, it's -Dovs=true
>
>
> Otherwise, it's all part of core NM at
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/
>
>
> best,
> Thomas
>
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