[ovirt-users] Ovirt + OpenVSwitch

[Sverker Abrahamsson]

Hi
My usecase is that I am setting up a lab to emulate a customers 
production environment which has multiple vlans. As this is done in a 
hosting environment where I don't have any control over the switches, 
I've created virtual switches with OpenVSwitch which connects together a 
couple of physical servers which are running virtual machines to emulate 
their servers. Currently I'm running a few virtual machines created 
manually with libvirt but looking for a more user friendly way of 
handling them.

I'm not looking at managing the network setup from Ovirt, I just want it 
to use the network that is present and create VM's there.

The tweaking that I did with 3.6 was to run the hosted-engine setup but 
where it failed I put the right answer in the file so that it would skip 
over that part. I got that far that it attempts to start the vm but as 
it doesn't give right parameters to libvirt it fails to create a port on 
the bridge.

I'm not having much luck with the 4.0 alpha though, this is a separate 
machine that I set up for this testing but when I run hosted-engine 
--deploy it just returns without any message. I did run the cleanup 
script found at http://www.ovirt.org/documentation/how-to/hosted-engine/ 
and rebooted in between but still no luck

/Sverker

On 2016-04-07 13:49, Dan Kenigsberg wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 11:57:08AM -0400, Martin Mucha wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I think OpenVSwitch should be supported in 4.0.
>>
>> M.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> Has anybody succeeded in installing Ovirt 3.6 with hosted engine on a
>>> server which uses OpenVSwitch for the network config?
>>>
>>> I believe my issue is that Ovirt wants to control the network to create
>>> a bridge for its management and I wants it to just use whatever network
>>> is available on the host without trying to be clever about it. I was
>>> able to tweak it to get to the final stage where it fails on waiting for
>>> the engine to start.
> Martin is right, but we should understand your usage of OpenVSwitch
> first.
>
> Do you intend to use it for networking of ovirt VMs? For something else?
>
> How did you tweak "it" (ovirt? hosted engine? ovs?)