openstack brctl addbr not supported on RHEL 6.3

[Pádraig Brady]

A quick search suggests that kernel has CONFIG_BRIDGE=n set.
So I presume there another method is possible through config.
Gary any ideas?

On 02/11/2013 04:33 PM, Greg Chavez wrote:
>
> Running latest EPEL Folsom packages on RHEL 6.3.  Three nodes right now, one controller, one network node, one compute node.  The network node has three NICs, one for external net, one for management net, one for VM network traffic.  It has been a miserable journey so far.
>
> The lastest calamity began with a failed spawn of the Cirros test image.  I booted it like this:
>
> # nova --os-username demo --os-password demo --os-tenant-name demoProject boot --image aefa581f-47b0-4d46-8dbc-1a1f7f02dfa0 --flavor 2  --nic net-id=3de1e780-07d1-42af-89cc-0feaf1ece6e9 server-01
>
> This succeeded but went directly into an ERROR state.  The compute node's /var/log/nova/compute.log showed this:
>
> ProcessExecutionError: Unexpected error while running command.
> Command: sudo nova-rootwrap /etc/nova/rootwrap.conf brctl addbr qbr2218b8c4-7d
> Exit code: 1
> Stdout: ''
> Stderr: 'add bridge failed: Package not installed\n'
>
> Hrm.  So then I ran this:
>
> # brctl show
> bridge namebridge idSTP enabledinterfaces
> br-eth1/sys/class/net/br-eth1/bridge: No such file or directory
> /sys/class/net/br-eth1/bridge: No such file or directory
> /sys/class/net/br-eth1/bridge: No such file or directory
> /sys/class/net/br-eth1/bridge: No such file or directory
> /sys/class/net/br-eth1/bridge: No such file or directory
> /sys/class/net/br-eth1/bridge: No such file or directory
> /sys/class/net/br-eth1/bridge: No such file or directory
> /sys/class/net/br-eth1/bridge: No such file or directory
> /sys/class/net/br-eth1/bridge: No such file or directory
> /sys/class/net/br-eth1/bridge: No such file or directory
> /sys/class/net/br-eth1/bridge: No such file or directory
> /sys/class/net/br-eth1/bridge: No such file or directory
> 0000.bc305befedd1no
> br-int/sys/class/net/br-int/bridge: No such file or directory
> /sys/class/net/br-int/bridge: No such file or directory
> /sys/class/net/br-int/bridge: No such file or directory
> /sys/class/net/br-int/bridge: No such file or directory
> /sys/class/net/br-int/bridge: No such file or directory
> /sys/class/net/br-int/bridge: No such file or directory
> /sys/class/net/br-int/bridge: No such file or directory
> /sys/class/net/br-int/bridge: No such file or directory
> /sys/class/net/br-int/bridge: No such file or directory
> /sys/class/net/br-int/bridge: No such file or directory
> /sys/class/net/br-int/bridge: No such file or directory
> /sys/class/net/br-int/bridge: No such file or directory
> 0000.7e1636f42c4bno
>
> GAH!   What!!! First of all, bridge capability is set by default in the RHEL 6.3 kernel.  Secondly, nova knows that it's supposed to be using openvswitch.  The ProcessExecutionError's trace showed that the offending code came from /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/nova/virt/libvirt/vif.py line 216 which has this comment:
>
>      def plug(self, instance, vif):
>          """Plug using hybrid strategy
>
>          Create a per-VIF linux bridge, then link that bridge to the OVS
>          integration bridge via a veth device, setting up the other end
>          of the veth device just like a normal OVS port.  Then boot the
>          VIF on the linux bridge using standard libvirt mechanisms
>          """
>
> Thirdly, ovs-vsctrl is happy:
>
> # ovs-vsctl show
> 44435595-8cc8-469c-ace4-ded76a7b864d
>      Bridge "br-eth1"
>          Port "br-eth1"
>              Interface "br-eth1"
>                  type: internal
>          Port "phy-br-eth1"
>              Interface "phy-br-eth1"
>          Port "eth1"
>              Interface "eth1"
>      Bridge br-int
>          Port "int-br-eth1"
>              Interface "int-br-eth1"
>          Port br-int
>              Interface br-int
>                  type: internal
>      ovs_version: "1.7.3"
>
> Final note, my network node fails the same way, but the controller does not.
>
> I hope so much that somebody knows what is going on here.  This is very terrible for me as I am struggling to achieve minimal functionality.  Thanks.