openVswitch won't get to a virtual IP

lejeczek peljasz at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Jul 14 16:04:50 UTC 2021



On 14/07/2021 16:12, Michal Prívozník wrote:
> On 7/14/21 3:54 PM, lejeczek wrote:
>> Hi guys.
>>
>> Among all the mailing lists I'm subscriber of this one I thought, would
>> where chances to find 'openvswitch'+'libvirtd' experts to share thoughts
>> & suggestions should be grater.
>>
>> A case:
>> a) all guests are KVM.
>> b) I have NM managed OVS bridge and libvirtd network to/on that bridge
>> c) "regular" NM bridge and network off it in libvirt
>>
>> problem is - guests on OVS network can _not_ ping a virtual IP of a
>> guest(s) on 'regular' bridge network, but..  can ping "actual" IP of
>> that same guest(s) okey.
> I'm not sure what you mean by: "actual" IP of that same guest.
>
> But in general, if you have two bridges you also have two separate
> subnets. So you want to set up routing between them. And also inspect
> rules that libvirt adds to its default network, because those might
> clash with your setup.
>
> Michal
>
No need to complicate..
guestOVSa <-> guestBRa 10.3.3.1 => pings OK
guestOVSa <-> guestBRa 10.3.3.2 virtual IP = cannot ping, 
"Destination Host Unreachable"
The host on which guestOVSa resides pings both those IPs OKey.

thanks for response Michal.
L




More information about the libvirt-users mailing list