[one-users] 802.1q tagging

[Rangababu Chakravarthula]

I was referring to creating vlan devices with vconfig. So you create
multiple vlan devices on the host and associate each with separate bridge.
However the switch that is used to connect multiple hosts should not add its
own VLAN tag. It must be capable of forwarding VLAN tagged traffic. This is
only addressing separation of networks and intra-VM communication within the
Cloud.

I think openvswitch does the same thing and more. Atleast what I gather from
here. http://openvswitch.org/?page_id=146

In case when you want a VM in the private cloud to be part of your
organization VLAN then the packet leaving your VM should carry the VLAN tag
configured in the switch. Obviously all the VM's using that bridge are part
of one network.

On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Shi Jin <jinzishuai at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am curious about the same thing.
> Is it possible to setup libvirt to have different VMs on the same phyiscal
> NIC on the same physical machine to run under different VLAN? My
> understanding is that VLAN is setup on the switch for each physical port.
> Thanks.
>
> Shi
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 5:43 AM, Gnep Zhao <jass.zhao at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I don't really understant：
>>
>> 1) create VLAN on the host --- I suppose the vlan is configured on the
>> switch. Do you mean the host-wide vlan?
>>
>> 2) link VLAN to an interface on the host
>>
>> And  what's the difference between your solution (802.1q)  and
>> openvswitch's?
>>
>> Gnep
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 6:31 AM, Rangababu Chakravarthula <
>> rbabu at hexagrid.com> wrote:
>>
>>> John
>>> Yes you can use 802.1q VLAN tagging to your VM interface.
>>>
>>> The following steps will help you do that.
>>> 1)  create VLAN on the host
>>> 2)  link VLAN to an interface on the host
>>> 3) create a bridge on the host
>>> 4) associate interface to the bridge
>>> 5) Define the following in VM template
>>>
>>> NIC=[
>>>   BRIDGE=<bridge name given above>,
>>>   MAC=00:e5:8d:9f:c1:ba
>>>    ]
>>>
>>> Hope this helps.
>>> Ranga
>>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 7:45 PM, John Dewey <john at dewey.ws> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I was curious if anyone has used 802.1q tagging with their VMs.  It
>>>> looks as though libvirt supports vlan tagging,
>>>> but OpenNebula at this time does not generate an appropriate deployment
>>>> stanza.
>>>>
>>>> I was hoping I could use network contextualization as a way to configure
>>>> the guest's 802.1q tags.
>>>> I guess I don't understand vlan tagging when "dom0" bridging is in the
>>>> mix.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone have anymore information on this topic, I would love to talk
>>>> with you a bit more offline.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks -
>>>> John
>>>>
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