[fedora-virt] Curent status of virt-manager Open vSwitch support

[Cole Robinson]

On 09/22/2014 09:27 AM, Ian Pilcher wrote:
> On 09/15/2014 09:21 AM, Cole Robinson wrote:
>> There's no explicit openvswitch support in virt-manager or virt-install. That
>> said I'm not too familiar with the openvswitch support in libvirt: if there's
>> a way to use openvswitch using XML config options that predate openvswitch
>> than you can probably make it work with virt-manager
> 
> Open vSwitch has worked with libvirt for a long time:
> 
>     <interface type='bridge'>
>       <mac address='52:54:00:91:b0:3f'/>
>       <source bridge='ovs0'/>
>       <vlan>
>         <tag id='250'/>
>       </vlan>
>       <virtualport type='openvswitch'>
>         <parameters interfaceid='25f2a25d-cfed-58f8-be38-2a3d3f057233'/>
>       </virtualport>
>       <model type='virtio'/>
>       <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03'
> function='0x0'/>
>     </interface>
> 
> And VMs attached to Open vSwitch ports work just fine in virt-manager.
> The challenge is creating such VMs.  The process I use is:
> 
> 1) Create new VM in virt-manager ...
> 
>    - Select "Customize configuration before install"
> 
>    - In "Advanced options," change the network type to "Specify shared
>      device name," and set the "Bridge name" to ovs0
> 
>    - Click "Finish"
> 
> 2) In the customization dialog, remove the NIC
> 
> 3) Click "Begin Installation"
> 
> 4) Complete installation without a NIC or force-off the VM (if a NIC is
>    needed during installation)
> 
> 5) Shut down the VM
> 
> 6) "virsh edit ..." to add the NIC to the VM
> 
> 7) Restart the VM, complete the installation (if needed), configure the
>    NIC, etc.
> 
> All in all, it's a pretty ugly process.
> 

Can you dump the NIC XML you use in a bug report against Virtualization Tools
-> virt-manager ? I'll follow up there with clarifying questions. I'll try to
get this in the the next release

Thanks,
Cole