[ovirt-users] Support for QinQ

Donny Davis donny at cloudspin.me
Wed Oct 7 22:24:03 UTC 2015


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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