X-Git-Url: http://git.onelab.eu/?p=sliver-openvswitch.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL.XenServer;h=d6f5816265c9890268515da099fa273ff4bba38e;hp=7a4dd76e8cc910750840fdc54eaeb081871bf92f;hb=HEAD;hpb=f6eb6b202533ad393b8d1d8e6ae6e502cbf19caf diff --git a/INSTALL.XenServer b/INSTALL.XenServer index 7a4dd76e8..d6f581626 100644 --- a/INSTALL.XenServer +++ b/INSTALL.XenServer @@ -158,13 +158,24 @@ command. The plugin script does roughly the following: * If XAPI is configured for a manager, configures the OVS manager to match with "ovs-vsctl set-manager". -The Open vSwitch boot sequence only configures an OVS configuration +Notes +----- + +* The Open vSwitch boot sequence only configures an OVS configuration database manager. There is no way to directly configure an OpenFlow controller on XenServer and, as a consequence of the step above that deletes all of the bridges at boot time, controller configuration only persists until XenServer reboot. The configuration database manager can, however, configure controllers for bridges. See the BUGS section -of ovs-controller(8) for more information on this topic. +of test-controller(8) for more information on this topic. + +* The Open vSwitch startup script automatically adds a firewall rule +to allow GRE traffic. This rule is needed for the XenServer feature +called "Cross-Host Internal Networks" (CHIN) that uses GRE. If a user +configures tunnels other than GRE (ex: VXLAN, LISP), they will have +to either manually add a iptables firewall rule to allow the tunnel traffic +or add it through a startup script (Please refer to the "enable-protocol" +command in the ovs-ctl(8) manpage). Reporting Bugs --------------