disabling AppArmor in Ubuntu helped solve this issue.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Radhika Niranjan <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:radhika@cs.ucsd.edu" target="_blank">radhika@cs.ucsd.edu</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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<div><br></div><div>I am using libvirt version 0.9.13 with Ubuntu 12.10</div><div><br></div>
<div>When I try to start a VM with an openvswitch bridge interface I get the error:</div><div><br></div><div><div>error: Failed to start domain kvm113-2</div>
<div>error: Unable to add port vnet1 to OVS bridge ovsbr: Operation not permitted</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Here is my bridge configuration:</div><div><div> &lt;interface type=&#39;bridge&#39;&gt;</div>


<div>      &lt;mac address=&#39;52:54:00:c7:db:d2&#39;/&gt;</div><div>      &lt;source bridge=&#39;ovsbr&#39;/&gt;</div><div>      &lt;virtualport type=&#39;openvswitch&#39;&gt;</div><div>        &lt;parameters interfaceid=&#39;40e21558-217c-d8ef-c9a9-5275fa4b4a46&#39;/&gt;</div>


<div>      &lt;/virtualport&gt;</div><div>      &lt;model type=&#39;virtio&#39;/&gt;</div><div>      &lt;address type=&#39;pci&#39; domain=&#39;0x0000&#39; bus=&#39;0x00&#39; slot=&#39;0x05&#39; function=&#39;0x0&#39;/&gt;</div>


<div>    &lt;/interface&gt;</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>This configuration previously worked  fine. </div><div><br>Request your help and insights.</div><div><br>WIth best regards</div><span><font color="#888888"><div>

Radhika</div>
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