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authorSaravanan KR <skramaja@redhat.com>2017-06-27 19:17:43 +0530
committerSaravanan KR <skramaja@redhat.com>2017-07-10 16:12:05 +0530
commitd7738012e13668e992c8d35cdd23e8527305a88e (patch)
treebc643d17cf25b631cc04fe122eed80a9e8699e6f /releasenotes
parentb5081b67e5f5a6c88c149f0cd13e0053494f6d60 (diff)
Added OvS permission workaround for enabling DPDK
The vhost sockets sockets are created with qemu permission, but ovs runs with root permission. In order to allow ovs to access vhost sockets reducing the ovs group permission from root to qemu. This is a temprovary workaround, until ovs fixes the permission issue. The script supports both ovs2.6 and ovs2.7 versions. Change-Id: I172956390c19fc9824bf7590cd48bfcf6201191b
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+---
+fixes:
+ - Fixed the openvswitch permission to allow ovs to access vhost
+ sockets created by qemu. This is a workaround until openvswitch
+ provides the actual solution.
+