> From: "Andrea Fagiani"
<andrea.fagiani(a)immobiliare.it>
> To: "Dan Kenigsberg" <danken(a)redhat.com>
> Cc: users(a)ovirt.org, "Lance Richardson" <lrichard(a)redhat.com>,
mmirecki(a)redhat.com
> Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 12:24:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] OVN Provider setup issues
>
> On 16/11/2016 17:23, Dan Kenigsberg wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 09:21:13AM +0100, Andrea Fagiani wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I've been messing around with the ovirt-ovn-provider [1] and I've
run into
> >> some issues during the initial setup.
> >>
> >> I have a 5-node cluster (running the hosted-engine VA), LEGACY virtual
> >> switch; this test was done on a single host. Following the instructions
> >> from
> >> the aforementioned blog post, I have downloaded the ovirt-provider-ovn and
> >> ovirt-provider-ovn-driver rpms, and built the rpm packages for:
> >>
> >> - openvswitch (2.6.90)
> >> - openvswitch-ovn-common
> >> - openvswitch-ovn-host
> >> - openvswitch-ovn-central
> >> - python-openvswitch
> >>
> >> I set up a dedicated VM for the OVN controller, installed ovs and
> >> ovn-central, started the ovn-northd and ovirt-provider-ovn services. So
> >> far
> >> so good. I then moved on to the oVirt host and installed the above
> >> packages
> >> (minus ovn-central) as well as the ovirt-provider-ovn-driver provided,
> >> started the ovn-controller service and ran
> >>
> >> # vdsm-tool ovn-config <ovn controller IP> <host management
IP>
> >>
> >> Executing the suggested checks I noticed that something didn't quite go
as
> >> planned. Below is the /var/log/openvswitch/ovn-controller.log from the
> >> host
> >> machine. There are no firewalls involved (not even on the servers) and I
> >> also tried disabling SELinux but to no avail.
> >>
> >> Any ideas?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Andrea
> >>
> >> [1]
http://www.ovirt.org/blog/2016/11/ovirt-provider-ovn/
> >>
> >>
> >> 2016-11-07T14:22:09.552Z|00001|vlog|INFO|opened log file
> >> /var/log/openvswitch/ovn-controller.log
> >>
2016-11-07T14:22:09.553Z|00002|reconnect|INFO|unix:/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock:
> >> connecting...
> >>
2016-11-07T14:22:09.553Z|00003|reconnect|INFO|unix:/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock:
> >> connected
> >> 2016-11-07T14:22:09.555Z|00004|reconnect|INFO|tcp:10.100.248.11:6642:
> >> connecting...
> >> 2016-11-07T14:22:09.555Z|00005|reconnect|INFO|tcp:10.100.248.11:6642:
> >> connected
> >>
2016-11-07T14:22:09.556Z|00006|ofctrl|INFO|unix:/var/run/openvswitch/br-int.mgmt:
> >> connecting to switch
> >>
2016-11-07T14:22:09.556Z|00007|rconn|INFO|unix:/var/run/openvswitch/br-int.mgmt:
> >> connecting...
> >>
2016-11-07T14:22:09.557Z|00008|pinctrl|INFO|unix:/var/run/openvswitch/br-int.mgmt:
> >> connecting to switch
> >>
2016-11-07T14:22:09.557Z|00009|rconn|INFO|unix:/var/run/openvswitch/br-int.mgmt:
> >> connecting...
> >>
2016-11-07T14:22:09.557Z|00010|rconn|INFO|unix:/var/run/openvswitch/br-int.mgmt:
> >> connected
> >>
2016-11-07T14:22:09.557Z|00011|rconn|INFO|unix:/var/run/openvswitch/br-int.mgmt:
> >> connected
> >> 2016-11-07T14:22:09.558Z|00012|ofctrl|INFO|OpenFlow error: OFPT_ERROR
> >> (OF1.3) (xid=0x9): OFPBMC_BAD_FIELD
> >> OFPT_FLOW_MOD (OF1.3) (xid=0x9):
> >> (***truncated to 64 bytes from 240***)
> >> 00000000 04 0e 00 f0 00 00 00 09-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> >> |................|
> >> 00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-22 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> >> |........".......|
> >> 00000020 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff-ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00
> >> |................|
> >> 00000030 00 01 00 04 00 00 00 00-00 04 00 b8 00 00 00 00
> >> |................|
> > Andrea, could you tell (mostly Lance) which kernel version are you
> > using?
> Here is the yum info output for the kernel package on the offending host:
>
> Installed Packages
> Name : kernel
> Arch : x86_64
> Version : 3.10.0
> Release : 327.36.3.el7
>
> Andrea
>
OK, the 327 kernel did not support conntrack and cannot be used for OVN.
RHEL 7.3 or newer is the minimum requirement for OVN.
Lance, can you encode this requirement in openvswitch-ovn-host.rpm ?
Regards,
Dan.