[Openstack] Is it possible to use OVS inside an Openstack VM ?

David Fernandes dfernandes at toulouse.viveris.com
Wed Jun 20 08:15:03 UTC 2018


Yo are totally Right Brian !

I tried to allow the bridge address pair to the VM port using the 
following command and it works !!!

neutron port-update <VM_port_uuid> --allowed-address-pairs type=dict 
list=true mac_address=<bridge_MAC>,ip_address=<bridge_ip>

Thank you so much !!

David

Le 18/06/2018 à 20:21, Brian Haley a écrit :
> On 06/18/2018 06:26 AM, David Fernandes wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I have just 1 question. Is it possible to use OVS inside an Openstack 
>> VM ? Let me explain my issue.
>>
>> I have created 2 Ubuntu 16.04 VMs and installed last version of OVS 
>> in both. Both VMs are connected to the same network and they can ping 
>> each other.
>> Then, I have created an OVS bridge (namely "br-test") in the first VM 
>> and I have added the port of the VM (ens1) to the ovs bridge as 
>> usual. At this point I cant't ping from one VM to the other.
>> If I perform tcpdump on the bridge (tcpdump br-test), I see that ARP 
>> requests are sent but they are not sent by the interface of the VM 
>> (ens1).
>> I tried to add the MAC addreses manually to the ARP table of each VM. 
>> When I ping, I see the same case :  icmp packets outgoing the bridge 
>> br-test but never sent by the interface ens1 of the VM.
>
> I can only guess things are being blocked by the MAC anti-spoofing 
> rules neutron adds - perhaps the source MAC of the bridge is being 
> used which is different from the NIC?
>
> -Brian
>
>
>> I have tried the same scenario using a linux bridge instead of OVS 
>> swithch and it works.
>>
>> Do you have any idea of why there are issues binding VM interface to 
>> OVS bridges ? Any information will be really apreciated !! Thanks in 
>> advance !!!
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>>
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