[openstack-dev] Does Neutron itself add VM ports to ovs?

Sławek Kapłoński slawek at kaplonski.pl
Tue Apr 12 16:40:04 UTC 2016


Hello,

It's nova-compute service which is configuring it. This service is running on 
compute node: http://docs.openstack.org/developer/nova/architecture.html

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Pozdrawiam / Best regards
Sławek Kapłoński
slawek at kaplonski.pl

Dnia wtorek, 12 kwietnia 2016 16:16:25 CEST 张晨 pisze:
> Thx for the answer, i finally locate the implementation in
> nova.network.linux_net.create_ovs_vif_port
> 
> 
> but how could nova execute the ovs-vsctl for the compute-node hypervisor
> just in the control-node?
> At 2016-04-12 13:13:48, "Sławek Kapłoński" <slawek at kaplonski.pl> wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >I don't know this ODL and how it works but for ovs-agent nova-compute is
> >part which adds port to ovs bridge (see for example
> >nova/virt/libvirt/vif.py)>
> >> Hello everyone,
> >> 
> >> 
> >> I have a question about Neutron. I learn that the ovs-agent receives the
> >> update-port rpc notification,and updates ovsdb data for VM port.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> But what is the situation when i use SDN controllers instead of OVS
> >> mechanism driver? I found no where in ODL to add the VM port to ovs.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> I asked the author of the related ODL plugin, but he told me that
> >> OpenStack
> >> adds the VM port to ovs.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Then, where is the implementation in OpenStack to  add the VM port to
> >> ovs,
> >> when i'm using ODL replacing the OVS    mechanism driver?
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Thanks
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