[ovirt-users] Port mirroring outside traffic into a VM?

Chris Adams cma at cmadams.net
Sun Feb 15 19:11:20 UTC 2015


Once upon a time, Genadi Chereshnya <gcheresh at redhat.com> said:
> If I understand you correctly you are trying to replace the physical device mirroring with VM?

Yes, that is correct.

> If this is the case I don't think it's possible to do it with port mirroring oVIRT feature.
> The existing oVIRT port mirroing feature is for mirroring traffic between VM devices for specific Network.
> So if you have 3 VMs with network <X> you can monitor on 1 VM that specific network that is used between 2 other VMs.

Ah, I see.

Is there a way to get an external network interface (that happens to be
a target of an external switch's port mirror/monitor session) to pass
through to a VM?  A way that still allows for live migration would be
best of course, but even without that would be a start.

Thanks.
-- 
Chris Adams <cma at cmadams.net>



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