[PVE-User] About openvswitch: just for testing purpose

Gerald Brandt gbr at majentis.com
Thu Feb 20 13:14:24 CET 2014


Citrix XenServer switched to openvswitch for a couple of releases (5.5, 
5.6), then pulled it as being too flakey.

On 2014-02-20, 4:13 AM, Diaolin wrote:
> I'm testing the "testing" release in a minimal production env
>
> (15 vm on 2 nodes)
>
> The switch works (OVSBridge)
> but i'm searching to enable a tunnel between three nodes
> in this manner:
>
>
> /etc/network/interfaces
>
> auto vmbr1
> iface vmbr1 inet static
>     address  10.168.1.55
>     netmask  255.255.255.0
>     ovs_type OVSBridge
>     ovs_ports vx1
>
> allow-vmbr1 vx1
> iface vx1 inet manual
>     ovs_type OVSTunnel
>     ovs-bridge vmbr1
>     ovs_tunnel_type vxlan
>     ovs_tunnel_options options:remote_ip=192.168.1.56 options:key=flow 
> options:dst_port=9999
>
>
> seems that gre and vxlan are not compiled in...
>
> in the two cases (gre and vxlan)
>
> but i've seen that if using 3.1.10 it works like a charme
>
> CONFIG_OPENVSWITCH=m
> CONFIG_OPENVSWITCH_GRE=y
> CONFIG_OPENVSWITCH_VXLAN=y
>
>
> in the 2.6.32-27-pve the vxlan and the gre are missing
>
> CONFIG_OPENVSWITCH=m
>
>
> is this related to the backporting of openvswitch???
>
> I take a look at the sources and seems that gre/vxlan are
> missing in the 2.32 tree...
>
> In any case no problem, only as advice for who is testing:
>
> in the 2.6.32 no way to configure vxlan or gre on OVSTunnel.
>
> Any idea to implement OVSTunnel in the interface?
>
> :-)
>
> Tx, Diaolin
>
>
>
>
> tail -3 /var/log/openvswitcd/ovs-vswitchd.log
> 2014-02-20T09:34:31.642Z|00019|dpif|WARN|system at ovs-system: failed to 
> add vxlan1 as port: Address family not supported by protocol
> 2014-02-20T09:35:39.035Z|00020|dpif|WARN|system at ovs-system: failed to 
> add gre1 as port: Address family not supported by protocol
> 2014-02-20T09:36:16.139Z|00021|dpif|WARN|system at ovs-system: failed to 
> add gre1 as port: Address family not supported by protocol
>
>
> ---
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