Re: Openvswitch support - port tagging

[Daniele Milani <dano1988@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 17:26:17 -0700

Subject: Re: Openvswitch support - port tagging
From: aatteka@xxxxxxxxxx
To: dano1988@xxxxxxxxxx
CC: libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx; libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx; dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; roberto.sassu@xxxxxxxxx; paolo.smiraglia@xxxxxxxxx

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 5:56 AM, Daniele Milani <dano1988@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I was looking at the release candidate of libvirt (0.9.11-rc2) and I have not been able to understand if the openvswitch support includes the port tagging support.

If your question is "Whether it is possible to specify VLAN tag in
Domain XML file" then the answer is "No".

But, you can always invoke ovs-vsctl manually to add a tag
to the VM's interface after it was already created (if this is
an option to you).

It is possible to do that adding vlanid=number in the virtualport definition and translating it with ovs-vsctl --tag=number in virdnetevopenvswitch.c .
Do you think that a patch that includes this functionality would be accepted?

Thanks,
Daniele

So my question is: is it possible to create a tagged port? How?
Otherwise, would it be useful to add this functionality?

Thanks,
Daniele Milani