[ovirt-users] oVirt 3.5 & NAT

Phil Daws uxbod at splatnix.net
Tue Oct 28 08:18:47 EDT 2014


Am starting to believe may have to give up on oVirt and move back to straight KVM and Openvswitch as that just worked which is a real shame :(

----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Daws" <uxbod at splatnix.net>
To: users at ovirt.org
Sent: Monday, 27 October, 2014 5:51:53 PM
Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] oVirt 3.5 & NAT

I believe am really missing the point somewhere along the line :( on my straight KVM and OVS system I see:

brctl show
bridge name	bridge id		STP enabled	interfaces
virbr0		8000.fe5400552ed9	yes		vnet5
							vnet8
ovs-vsctl show
55a2af2f-daf5-4f01-a757-9bccaf4f6932
    Bridge "ovsbr0"
        Port "vnet0"
            Interface "vnet0"
        Port "vnet1"
            tag: 8
            Interface "vnet1"
        Port "vnet13"
            tag: 14
            Interface "vnet13"
        Port "vnet9"
            tag: 10
            Interface "vnet9"
        Port "mgmt0"
            Interface "mgmt0"
                type: internal
        Port "vnet14"
            tag: 8
            Interface "vnet14"
        Port "ovsbr0"
            Interface "ovsbr0"
                type: internal
        Port "vnet11"
            tag: 8
            Interface "vnet11"

and on the new oVirt system I see:

brctl show
bridge name	bridge id		STP enabled	interfaces
;vdsmdummy;		8000.000000000000	no		
ovirtmgmt		8000.c81f66c42c76	no		em1
							vnet0
ovs-vsctl show
08554d11-3ba7-4303-b9d5-6a09f23c9057
    Bridge "ovsbr0"
        Port "ovsbr0"
            Interface "ovsbr0"
                type: internal


so I have the ovirtmgmt bridge running fine and that is responding to traffic.  If I bond an IP to the ovsbr0 it responds okay:

ip add add 88.XXX.XXX.XXX/29 dev ovsbr0

so network traffic is flowing in and out of OVS.  The next step would be to create a VM that will act as the firewall with a public facing interface on ovsbr0, but then all internal networks would need specific vlans behind that.  I have already defined a new network called ovs-network:

<network>
  <name>ovs-network</name>
  <uuid>76152e72-34da-43bc-864a-85e727025bc9</uuid>
  <forward mode='bridge'/>
  <bridge name='ovsbr0' />
  <virtualport type='openvswitch'/>
  <portgroup name='vlan-08'>
    <vlan>
      <tag id='8'/>
    </vlan>
  </portgroup>
  <portgroup name='vlan-10'>
    <vlan>
      <tag id='10'/>
    </vlan>
  </portgroup>
  <portgroup name='vlan-13'>
    <vlan>
      <tag id='13'/>
    </vlan>
  </portgroup>
  <portgroup name='vlan-14'>
    <vlan>
      <tag id='14'/>
    </vlan>
  </portgroup>
  <portgroup name='vlan-20'>
    <vlan>
      <tag id='20'/>
    </vlan>
  </portgroup>
  <portgroup name='vlan-99' default='yes'>
  </portgroup>
</network>

and then I should just be able to assign the network and vlan IDs to each VM NIC:

    <interface type='network'>
      <mac address='54:52:00:02:01:02'/>
      <source network='ovs-network' portgroup='vlan-08'/>
      <model type='virtio'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x08' function='0x0'/>
    </interface>
    <interface type='network'>
      <mac address='54:52:00:02:01:03'/>
      <source network='ovs-network' portgroup='vlan-10'/>
      <model type='virtio'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x09' function='0x0'/>
    </interface>

so where should I start to put all this together please ? I believe am 90% there its just how to get the source-network and port-group to be assigned to a VM guest when its built ?  Guess probably need to create a new hook similar to https://github.com/oVirt/vdsm/blob/master/vdsm_hooks/macspoof/macspoof_vnic.py that changes this in each guests VM definition from bridge to a network:

      <interface type='bridge'>
        <mac address='00:1a:4a:83:fb:00'/>
        <source bridge='ovirtmgmt'/>
        <target dev='vnet0'/>
        <model type='virtio'/>
        <filterref filter='vdsm-no-mac-spoofing'/>
        <link state='up'/>
        <bandwidth>
        </bandwidth>
        <alias name='net0'/>
        <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/>
      </interface>

Thanks, Phil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Daws" <uxbod at splatnix.net>
To: users at ovirt.org
Sent: Monday, 27 October, 2014 5:16:05 PM
Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] oVirt 3.5 & NAT

How does one add multiple custom properties ? tried: 

engine-config -s CustomDeviceProperties='{type=interface;prop={vlan=^[a-zA-Z0-9_ ---]+$}}{type=interface;prop={bridge=^[a-zA-Z0-9_ ---]+$}}' 

but ended up with one call vlan and the other prop :) If can add vlan and bridge then should be able to use a vNIC profile for adding an interface directly to OVS using a custom hook. 

Thanks, Phil 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Daws" <uxbod at splatnix.net> 
To: users at ovirt.org 
Sent: Monday, 27 October, 2014 3:04:20 PM 
Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] oVirt 3.5 & NAT 

Well, in fact have got something to work now! Left ovirtmgmt and em1 alone but ran: 

$ ovs-vsctl add-br ovsbr0 
$ ip link add name veth0 type veth peer name veth1 
$ brctl addif ovirtmgmt veth0 
$ ovs-vsctl add-port ovsbr veth1 
$ ip add add XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX/29 dev veth1 
$ ip link set veth0 up && ip link set veth1 up 

and now veth1 is responding as-well as veth0. 

ovs-vsctl show 
08554d11-3ba7-4303-b9d5-6a09f23c9057 
Bridge "ovsbr0" 
Port "veth1" 
Interface "veth1" 
Port "ovsbr0" 
Interface "ovsbr0" 
type: internal 

so what I think should do now is create a custom parameter on the Engine Manager that allows one to define an OVS bridge name and VLAN so when a virtual guest is created it can be assigned to the new bridge; with the use of a custom hook. 

Thanks, Phil 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Daws" <uxbod at splatnix.net> 
To: "Antoni Segura Puimedon" <asegurap at redhat.com> 
Cc: users at ovirt.org 
Sent: Monday, 27 October, 2014 2:10:34 PM 
Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] oVirt 3.5 & NAT 

Darn, looks like this will not work :( the problem is that oVirt creates the bridge ovirtmgmt and binds that to your interface eg. em1. So at that point you have network running. If you then try to add that to the OVS stack your networking stop :( I tried to add it as a port using ovs-vsctl add-port ovsbr0 ovirtmgmt which is accepted but then networking stops. As soon as I remove again networking comes back to life. There does not seem to be a way to have two co-existing bridges :( Thanks, Phil 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Antoni Segura Puimedon" <asegurap at redhat.com> 
To: "Phil Daws" <uxbod at splatnix.net> 
Cc: "Dan Kenigsberg" <danken at redhat.com>, users at ovirt.org 
Sent: Monday, 27 October, 2014 12:13:30 PM 
Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] oVirt 3.5 & NAT 



----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Phil Daws" <uxbod at splatnix.net> 
> To: "Antoni Segura Puimedon" <asegurap at redhat.com> 
> Cc: "Dan Kenigsberg" <danken at redhat.com>, users at ovirt.org 
> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2014 11:41:56 AM 
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] oVirt 3.5 & NAT 
> 
> Hi Antoni: 
> 
> Yes, prior to the reboot it did work okay. This is how it should look I 
> believe: 
> 
> Bridge "ovirtmgmt" 
> Port "mgmt0" 
> Interface "mgmt0" 
> type: internal 
> Port "ovsbr0" 
> Interface "ovsbr0" 
> type: internal 
> 
> So the bridge would be defined by oVirt then I guess with a custom hook that 
> would then be added to the OVS stack ? 

exactly! You could just make a hook script that runs an after_network_setup 
hook that does the ovs-vsctl for you ;-) 

Here you can see the presentation I gave last February at devconf about extending 
with configurators and hooks. 

http://blog.antoni.me/devconf14/#/8/1 

I linked directly to a before_network_setup hook sample, because it works just like 
the after_network_setup hook. Instead of logging to systemd, just add that if 
'remove' is not in data and network == 'ovirtmgmt', it adds the network bridge to 
the vswitch with python's subprocess.call or subprocess.check_output. 

You can send it if you want me to take a look ;-) 

PS: It is possible to write the hooks in bash, c, perl, etc. But we only have the 
convenience read_json methods and such for python. If you wanted to, you could have 
a simple bash hook that just checked if there was an ovirtmgmt bridge and it would 
add it doing ovs-vsctl in the before_vdsm_start hooking point. That would have the 
drawback that changing the ovirtmgmt bridge with oVirt UI would leave it disconnected 
again. 

> 
> Thanks, Phil 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Antoni Segura Puimedon" <asegurap at redhat.com> 
> To: "Phil Daws" <uxbod at splatnix.net> 
> Cc: "Dan Kenigsberg" <danken at redhat.com>, users at ovirt.org 
> Sent: Monday, 27 October, 2014 9:56:38 AM 
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] oVirt 3.5 & NAT 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Phil Daws" <uxbod at splatnix.net> 
> > To: "Antoni Segura Puimedon" <asegurap at redhat.com> 
> > Cc: "Dan Kenigsberg" <danken at redhat.com>, users at ovirt.org 
> > Sent: Monday, October 27, 2014 10:37:18 AM 
> > Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] oVirt 3.5 & NAT 
> > 
> > That is what I tried but oVirt appears to overwrite the bridge information 
> > on 
> > boot :( Thanks, Phil 
> 
> But before rebooting, does it work as you intended? If so, you could just 
> make 
> a vdsm hook that adds ovirtmgmt to the ovs bridge after it is set up. (I 
> could 
> give more directions into how to do it). 
> 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Antoni Segura Puimedon" <asegurap at redhat.com> 
> > To: "Phil Daws" <uxbod at splatnix.net> 
> > Cc: "Dan Kenigsberg" <danken at redhat.com>, users at ovirt.org 
> > Sent: Monday, 27 October, 2014 8:00:33 AM 
> > Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] oVirt 3.5 & NAT 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > > From: "Phil Daws" <uxbod at splatnix.net> 
> > > To: "Dan Kenigsberg" <danken at redhat.com> 
> > > Cc: users at ovirt.org 
> > > Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2014 5:02:59 PM 
> > > Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] oVirt 3.5 & NAT 
> > > 
> > > Hmmm, this is becoming difficult .. 
> > > 
> > > I have added into the engine the custom hook and understand how that will 
> > > work. The issue is how can a single NIC use two different bridges ? 
> > > Example with OVS would be that one requires: 
> > > 
> > > em1 -+ ovirtmgmt (bridge) -> management IP (public) 
> > > + ovs (bridge) -> firewall IP (public) 
> > > | 
> > > + vlan 1 
> > > + vlan 2 
> > > 
> > > this works fine when using OVS and KVM, without oVirt, so there must be a 
> > > way 
> > > to hook the two together without a Neutron appliance. 
> > > 
> > > Any thoughts ? Thanks, Phil. 
> > 
> > I haven't tried this, and it may not work, but what happens if you add the 
> > ovirtmgmt 
> > bridge as a port of the ovs bridge? 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > > From: "Dan Kenigsberg" <danken at redhat.com> 
> > > To: "Phil Daws" <uxbod at splatnix.net> 
> > > Cc: users at ovirt.org 
> > > Sent: Wednesday, 22 October, 2014 3:54:46 PM 
> > > Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] oVirt 3.5 & NAT 
> > > 
> > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 03:12:09PM +0100, Phil Daws wrote: 
> > > > Thanks Dan & Antoni: 
> > > > 
> > > > I wonder then if I could replace the standard libvirt defined network 
> > > > with 
> > > > an OpenVSwitch one like I have on my dev system? That is just straight 
> > > > KVM with OVS integrated. Maybe a bit more overhead in administration 
> > > > but 
> > > > possibly less than having to spin up a Neutron Appliance. 
> > > 
> > > Once you start to use the vdsm-hook-extnet, all that you need to do is 
> > > to replace the libvirt-side definition of the "external network". This 
> > > may well be an OpenVSwitch-based network e.g. 
> > > http://libvirt.org/formatnetwork.html#elementVlanTag 
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