https://thebin.net/tags/openvswitch/Recent content in Openvswitch on the binHugoen-USWed, 24 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000https://thebin.net/2012/10/linux-kvm-ubuntu-12-10-with-openvswitch/Wed, 24 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000https://thebin.net/2012/10/linux-kvm-ubuntu-12-10-with-openvswitch/<p>Today I am revisiting my previous post on Openvswitch on Ubuntu 12.04.  Things have changed since then.  Previously Openvswitch was relatively new and as such the userland tools (with libvirt being the one I use) didn’t support it yet, so while you could have used Openvswitch by executing the kvm processes for each VM manually.  Since this was a predictable problem the Openvswitch guys created a brcompat module, which would take the place of the bridge_utils functionality and expose Openvswitch bridges as legacy bridges.  This allowed the existing userland which already had the legacy bridge functionality builtin to continue to operate the same way.  Anyways as of libvirt 0.9.11 the native Openvswitch functionality is present and supported.  As such I am updating my documentation to include this alternate and preferred method of operation.</p>https://thebin.net/2012/03/linux-kvm-ubuntu-12-04-with-openvswitch/Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000https://thebin.net/2012/03/linux-kvm-ubuntu-12-04-with-openvswitch/<h2 id="update-october-29-2012">UPDATE: October 29, 2012</h2> <p>This article doesn’t work on Ubuntu 12.10, to use Ubuntu 12.10 please refer to my new article <a href="http://blog.allanglesit.com/2012/10/linux-kvm-ubuntu-12-10-with-openvswitch/">here</a>.</p> <p>Openvswitch is a better way of managing your virtual networking stacks for KVM and Xen.  This can be used instead of the bridge-utils package, and has the ability to use VLANs, LACP, QoS, sFlow, and others.  In this article we will be using Ubuntu 12.04 (beta1) to configure Openvswitch to hand out networking interfaces to KVM guests.</p>