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Subject:    [ovs-discuss] Re : OVS and KVM: getting persistent UUID's or querying UUID values based on interface
From:       darkbls () yahoo ! com (DarkBls)
Date:       2010-06-30 13:15:03
Message-ID: 433286.90649.qm () web23701 ! mail ! ird ! yahoo ! com
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Are you saying that a VM interface (tap0 for exemple) are connected to both bridge or \
you have a tap0 on the bridge dedicated to guest network and a tap1 on the bridge \
dedicated for SPAN monitor ?



----- Message d'origine ----
De : Sean Brady <sbrady at gtfservices.com>
? : "discuss at openvswitch.org" <discuss at openvswitch.org>
Envoy? le : Mer 23 juin 2010, 21h 29min 48s
Objet : [ovs-discuss] OVS and KVM: getting persistent UUID's or querying UUID values \
based on interface name

Hello all,

I am trying to implement a SPAN port in combination with a KVM guest as a SPAN \
monitor.  I have two bridges set up, one for guest network and the other for the SPAN \
port, in conjunction with a dedicated NIC port for each bridge (eth1 for guest \
networking and eth2 for SPAN).  I have the physical switch connected to eth2 sending \
SPAN output to this dedicated network port (eth2).  I have it working by using \
modifying the OVS database's mirror table to mirror traffic from the dedicated SPAN \
NIC to the virtual port connected to the VM.

In KVM when a VM is shutdown, the virtual interface is deleted, and when the VM is \
started back up, a new interface is created by libvirt and added to (both) bridges.  \
The issue is that when the new interface is created, it gets a new UUID, which of \
course will need to be added back into the mirror table as the output_port.

Is there any way to get UUID persistence for these virtual interfaces?  If not, is \
there a clean way to query the DB to get the UUID of a named port?  If I could just \
consistently get the UUID of the port using a shell script I can have this working \
when the VM is started up.

Thanks for your help.

-Sean

P.S.: I am working on documenting this out, as well as my steps for using bridging \
with OVS and KVM.  If we decide it's helpful I am more than happy to contribute it.

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