[ovirt-users] oVirt Networking query

[Rudrajit Tapadar (rtapadar)]

Hi Lior,

Thanks for your response. I¹ll surely take a look at the configurator.

I have used macvtap in passthru mode on a eth to sniff all packets from
all vlans. Hence I was wondering if this is supported in oVirt.

-Rudrajit

On 4/18/14, 1:56 PM, "Lior Vernia" <lvernia at redhat.com> wrote:

>Hi Rudrajit,
>
>Welcome, I hope you'll like it! See comments inline.
>
>On 18/04/14 21:53, Rudrajit Tapadar (rtapadar) wrote:
>> Hello!
>> 
>> I am a newbie to ovirt and I had a couple of questions and I was hoping
>> I could get some help.
>> 
>>  1. Does ovirt support openvswitch without going through Neutron? So far
>>     all the documents that I came across uses Neutron as an external
>>     network provider.
>
>At the moment it doesn't. However, this has been talked about and will
>probably be implemented at some point (though not sure when).
>
>In fact, if you're a developer, you could help make it happen yourself!
>A lot of the necessary "nfrastructure has been recently laid down by
>this feature, which would only require someone to implement an OVS
>"configurator":
>
>http://www.ovirt.org/Feature/NetworkReloaded
>
>>  2. Is there a support for macvtap in ovirt? I couldn¹t find anything on
>>     macvtap.
>
>Not at the moment, and I myself am not knowledgeable about macvtap.
>However, since Google tells me it should play well with libvirt, I'm
>guessing support for that might also be added by implementing a
>dedicated configurator.
>
>Following the said Google search however, I would be very interested to
>hear why it interests you, since oVirt handles bridge and tap device
>creation. What would be the gain in using specifically macvtap? I'm
>asking because this if there's good reason to do this, it might be
>prioritized in the future.
>
>Yours, Lior.
>
>> 
>> I would appreciate your help.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Rudrajit
>> 
>> 
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