I've been hearing more and more about the SONiC Virtual Switch. It has come a long way since it's debut at an Open Compute conference some number of years ago.
To give it a try on non-ONIE hardware (nothing handy at the moment), this is what I did to get the .vs image working on my local Proxmox box:
- Download recent sonic-vs.img.gz version from Sonic Software
- scp the image over onto my Proxmox box
- gunzip the image
gunzip sonic-vs.img.gz
- construct a virtual machine with: 4 cpu, 4G memory, q35, SeaBIOS, no-cd, no drive
- assign an interface which supplies DHCP
- import the disk into the vm (this one has vmid of 116)
qm disk import 116 sonic-vs.img local-btrfs --target-disk ide0
- in options, set boot order to ide0, disable pxe and cd
- start it up, and log in with the credentials supplied at the download site
- once I confirmed it had an address, I was able to ssh with:
ssh admin@<ipaddr> -o PreferredAuthentications=password
Add additional instances to build infrastructure. Add interfaces to build a network.
