It is more of having the ability to do other things, versus just basic bridging, if we wanted to.
Something more immediate is the ability to export OpenFlow data and VXLAN. From: Alex Mattioli <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 7:31 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: RE: OVS WARNING: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Hi Marty, What's your use case for OVS? Cheers Alex -----Original Message----- From: Wei ZHOU <[email protected]> Sent: 23 October 2025 08:38 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: OVS Hi Marty, If you only want to use OVS to replace Linux bridge, you need to configure kvm agent, refer to https://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/latest/plugins/ovs-plugin.html#agent-configuration If you want to use GRE isolation instead of vlan/vxlan, then it is much more complicated. Kind regards, Wei On Thu, Oct 23, 2025 at 8:2 AM Marty Godsey <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > In the past, I have used XCP for my hypervisors, but I am now adding > in some KVM hypervisors. In my Zone, though, OVS is disabled, and I > want to use OVS on the KVM hosts, but I can not find where to enable > it. Am I missing a setting somewhere? > >
