On 01/27/2012 02:45 PM, Roopa Prabhu wrote:
The existing forward mode bridge could also work perhaps. If there are no special cases for ovs.
<network> <name>ovs-network</name> <forward mode='bridge' dev='ovs-bridge'> <script path='/etc/qemu-ifup-ovs'/> </forward> </network>
This one would be confused with macvtap in bridge mode (which is recognized by mode='bridge' and the presence of a dev attribute (or rather, an array of <interface> elements being present, of which by definition the first is copied into the dev attribute for historical reasons).
Or maybe the real syntax is,
<network> <name>ovs-network</name> <forward mode='bridge'> <bridge name='ovs-bridge'/> <script path='/etc/qemu-ifup-ovs'/> </forward> </network>
A human might confuse that one with a host bridge network (which is the same, except the <bridge> element isn't inside the <forward> element). I'm leaning towards: <network> <name>ovs-network</name> <forward mode='bridge'/> <bridge name='ovs-bridge' type='openvswitch'/> </network>