[ovirt-users] Support for QinQ

[Donny Davis]

You would be better off using something like openvswtich and vxlan's for
your purpose. oVirt does support OpenStack Networking... which will give
you what you are looking for in a lab env... tenant networks

On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Sigbjorn Lie <sigbjorn at nixtra.com> wrote:

> Ok. Thanks for your quick response. Sorry for my late reply back :)
>
> I had a request to have multiple concurrent labs of testing end point
> equipment which required to see a vlan trunk having the exact same vlan
> numbers across all the labs. The vlans coming from each lab had to be
> mapped to different vms. The different lab networks could not be joined.
> This required adding the vlan trunk from each lab into a qinq trunk which
> connects to the same hypervisor. Or using networking equipment having the
> ability to rewrite the vlans of the lab vlan trunks into other vlan numbers
> before they reach the hypervisor.
>
>
> Regards,
> Siggi
>
>
>
> Den 7. september 2015 16:27:33 CEST, skrev Dan Kenigsberg <
> danken at redhat.com>:
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 02:45:04PM +0200, Sigbjorn Lie wrote:
>>
>>>  Hi list,
>>>
>>>  I've been looking around the web for QinQ support in Ovirt. I see that QinQ is supported in CentOS
>>>  6.x and above. However I cannot see any documented support in Ovirt. I've come across the page
>>>  below which details QinQ as a future feature.
>>>
>>>  Is QinQ still a future feature, or is it possible to use QinQ with Ovirt today somehow?
>>>
>>>  http://www.ovirt.org/Networking
>>>
>>
>> I'm afraid we do not support QinQ, and it's not on our immediate
>> roadmap.
>>
>> However, we would love to understand your use case (do you want to
>> tunnel VM traffic within QinQ? why?)
>>
>> I believe you can use network custom properties and
>> before/after_network_setup
>> hookpoint in order to tinker with this
>> yourself.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Dan.
>>
>>
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