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Open vSwitch
The Open vSwitch plugin, vif_plug_ovs,
is an os-vif VIF plugin for the Open
vSwitch network backend. It is one of two plugins provided as part of
os-vif itself, the other being linux-bridge
.
Supported VIF Types
The Open vSwitch plugin provides support for the following VIF types:
VIFOpenVSwitch
Configuration where a guest is directly connected an Open vSwitch bridge.
Refer to
vif-openvswitch
for more information.
VIFBridge
Configuration where a guest is connected to a Linux bridge via a TAP device, and that bridge is connected to the Open vSwitch bridge. This allows for the use of
iptables
rules for filtering traffic.Refer to
vif-bridge
for more information.
VIFVHostUser
Configuration where a guest exposes a UNIX socket for its control plane. This configuration is used with the DPDK datapath of Open vSwitch.
Refer to
vif-vhostuser
for more information.
For information on the VIF type objects, refer to ../vif_types
. Note that only
the above VIF types are supported by this plugin.