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Wrapping libvirt Virtual Networks Around Open vSwitch Fake Bridges

Scott Lowe

In this article, I show you how to wrap a libvirt virtual network around your OVS fake bridge. You might ask, “Why wrap a libvirt virtual network around an OVS fake bridge when you can just use the OVS bridge directly?” Next, create an XML definition for a libvirt virtual network. Using VLANs with OVS and libvirt.

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How to modernize and accelerate mainframe application development

CIO Business Intelligence

This option may not include net-new investments but positions a business for failure against competitors. interoperability and integration, storage, automation, and performance and capacity management needs) have empowered IT leaders to see modernizing in place as a more cost-effective, less disruptive path to a hybrid cloud future.

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Using VLANs with OVS and libvirt

Scott Lowe

In previous posts, I’ve shown you how to use Open vSwitch (OVS) with VLANs through fake bridges , as well as how to wrap libvirt virtual network around OVS fake bridges. To make VLANs work with OVS and libvirt, two things are necessary: First, you must define a libvirt virtual network that contains the necessary portgroup definitions.

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Automatically Connecting LXC to Open vSwitch

Scott Lowe

I’ve previously discussed using Open vSwitch (OVS) with Linux Containers (LXC) in a couple of previous posts ( here and here ). with the Linux 3.8.0 The configuration section of the container’s configuration (“net” in this case). A Brief Introduction to Linux Containers with LXC.

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Compiling libvirt 0.10.1 on Ubuntu 12.04

Scott Lowe

I noted that the system had re-created the default bridge, so I got rid of that with these two commands: virsh net-destroy default virsh net-autostart --disable default. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Linux Virtualization KVM Ubuntu'

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Technology Short Take #63

Scott Lowe

In any case, here’s another collection of links and articles from around the Net on the major data center technology areas. At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. You may also find this (related) article on memory inside Linux containers to be helpful.

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Using Vagrant with Libvirt on Fedora 27

Scott Lowe

I first experimented with the Libvirt provider for Vagrant quite some time ago, but at that time I was using the Libvirt provider to communicate with a remote Libvirt daemon (the use case was using Vagrant to create and destroy KVM guest domains via Libvirt on a remote Linux host). Hence, this blog post. Prerequisites.

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