On 04/12/2012 03:35 AM, yue wang wrote:
> hi everybody,
> i saw the new feature: network: support Open vSwitch.
> how to use this feature? are there any documents about that? i didn't
> find it on the website.
It's a very new feature, only in libvirt-0.9.10 and newer. Here is the
commit log that describes additions to the XML to configure an interface
to use an openvswitch bridge:
commit df8100463272c3c9a7a680d547b675ec277ed53e
Author: Ansis Atteka <aatteka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Feb 10 23:09:00 2012 +0200
network: support Open vSwitch
This patch allows libvirt to add interfaces to already
existing Open vSwitch bridges. The following syntax in
domain XML file can be used:
<interface type='bridge'>
<source bridge='ovsbr'/>
<virtualport type='openvswitch'>
<parameters interfaceid='921a80cd-e6de-5a2e-db9c-ab27f15a6e1d'/>
</virtualport>
</interface>
or if libvirt should auto-generate the interfaceid use
following syntax:
<interface type='bridge'>
<source bridge='ovsbr'/>
<virtualport type='openvswitch'>
</virtualport>
</interface>
It is also possible to pass an optional profileid. To do that
use following syntax:
<interface type='bridge'>
<source bridge='ovsbr'/>
<virtualport type='openvswitch'>
<parameters interfaceid='921a80cd-e6de-5a2e-db9c-ab27f15a6e1d'
profileid='test-profile'/>
</virtualport>
</interface>
To create Open vSwitch bridge install Open vSwitch and
run the following command:
ovs-vsctl add-br ovsbr
