RE: RE: XCP: first unstable snapshot available

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@eu.citrix.com>]

On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 18:55 +0100, Nakajima, Jun wrote:
> Ian Campbell wrote on Sat, 17 Jul 2010 at 03:10:04:
> 
> > On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 21:18 +0100, Nakajima, Jun wrote:
> >> Dave Scott wrote on Tue, 13 Jul 2010 at 10:31:00:
> >> 
> >>> Hi,
> >>> 
> >>> I've built a snapshot of XCP unstable and uploaded it here:
> >>> 
> >>> http://www.xen.org/files/XenCloud/Software/unstable/
> >>> 
> >>> The goal is to create snapshots weekly, do some limited tests and
> >>> automatically upload them to the website. This particular snapshot
> >>> hasn't been tested at all so be careful :-)
> >>> 
> >> 
> >> Looks like Open vSwitch is not there (unlike XCP 0.5)?
> >  I haven't installed this particular build but I can see the vswitch
> > bits in the root filesystem tarball and the default set in the installer
> > is to use vswitch.
> > 
> > Are you getting no networking at all or is it just using Linux bridging?
> Okay, I think it's just that the xsconsole does not show it in the menus. The commands like ovs-vsctl work fine.

The xsconsole plugin was part of the out-of-tree openvswitch add-on. Now
that it is integrated into XCP it is no longer required and upstream
asked that we remove it to avoid confusion.

> > What does /etc/xensource/network.conf contain?
> openvswitch
> 
> Did we change it from 'vswitch'?

Yes, upstream are trying to use openvswitch more consistently and XCP
followed suit. "vswitch" is still acceptable in this file but
"openvswitch" is preferred.

> So we are good.

Yes, it looks like it is all fine.

Ian.

> 
> Jun
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