Bug#702428: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#702428: HVM networking tap/vif bug (Debian bug 702428)

2013-03-21 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 21/03/13 02:47, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 23:32 +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: Should the script be using the ovs-vsctl command instead of brctl? As a general rule one should be using the ovs tools directly wherever possible and not the brctl compat layer. Or

Bug#702428: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#702428: HVM networking tap/vif bug (Debian bug 702428)

2013-03-20 Thread Daniel Pocock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 17/03/13 18:49, Ian Campbell wrote: On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 18:44 +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: On 17/03/13 18:38, Ian Campbell wrote: I'm afraid I don't know about the issue you are seeing but I can comment on one part: On Sun, 2013-03-17

Bug#702428: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#702428: HVM networking tap/vif bug (Debian bug 702428)

2013-03-20 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 23:32 +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: Should the script be using the ovs-vsctl command instead of brctl? As a general rule one should be using the ovs tools directly wherever possible and not the brctl compat layer. Or have I misconfigured something and the wrong script

Bug#702428: HVM networking tap/vif bug (Debian bug 702428)

2013-03-17 Thread Daniel Pocock
Hi, I've been testing the Debian packages ahead of the Debian 7 release (which is very imminent) I believe this is a serious bug[1] in the package, as it appears that HVM networking is broken, or at the very least, requires some undocumented configuration step Specifically: - I can start the

Bug#702428: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#702428: HVM networking tap/vif bug (Debian bug 702428)

2013-03-17 Thread Ian Campbell
I'm afraid I don't know about the issue you are seeing but I can comment on one part: On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 15:02 +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: while the output from dmesg suggests that the interface vif10.0 was created. It appears there is confusion between the vifX.Y and tapX.Y naming

Bug#702428: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#702428: HVM networking tap/vif bug (Debian bug 702428)

2013-03-17 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 15:02 +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: xcp-fe: qemu-dm-10[9169]: can't add tap10.0 to bridge xapi1: Operation not supported A google search for linux add tap to bridge operation not supported shows lots of people having this sort issue (often in the absence of Xen) although

Bug#702428: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#702428: HVM networking tap/vif bug (Debian bug 702428)

2013-03-17 Thread Daniel Pocock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 17/03/13 18:38, Ian Campbell wrote: I'm afraid I don't know about the issue you are seeing but I can comment on one part: On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 15:02 +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: while the output from dmesg suggests that the interface

Bug#702428: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#702428: HVM networking tap/vif bug (Debian bug 702428)

2013-03-17 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 18:44 +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: On 17/03/13 18:38, Ian Campbell wrote: I'm afraid I don't know about the issue you are seeing but I can comment on one part: On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 15:02 +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: while the output from dmesg suggests that the