openvswitch not showing up for virtual machine

[nolfk]

I run a 3 node cluster ( 2 physicals + one proxmox in esxi just for quorom ).
I switched from Linux Bridges to openvswitch on the 2 physical nodes. I installed the openvswitch package from the proxmox repository ( pve-no-subscription ). The ovs seems to work fine. However, the correct port ( type internal ) does not show up in the drop down list to bind the network interface of a virtual machine to ovs internal port. In my case, I would expect to see the internal ports vmprod and vmdev appear in the drop down . I only see vmbr0 and vmbr1 in the drop down as a choice for the virtual machine. What I'm doing wrong ?

oot@pve03:/sbin# ovs-vsctl show
7152fe64-065d-457c-9851-5dbdba291328
Bridge "vmbr1"
Port vmdev
tag: 206
Interface vmdev
type: internal
Port vmprod
tag: 205
Interface vmprod
type: internal
Port hypervisor
tag: 200
Interface hypervisor
type: internal
Port "eth3"
Interface "eth3"
Port "vmbr1"
Interface "vmbr1"
type: internal
Bridge "vmbr0"
Port storage
tag: 201
Interface storage
type: internal
Port "eth2"
Interface "eth2"
Port "vmbr0"
Interface "vmbr0"
type: internal
ovs_version: "2.6.0"

 

[manu]

this is the expected behaviour, when creating your VM, you add the NIC of the VM as a tap device to the bridge containing you physical port

 

[nolfk]

In the end I figured out how it works. If I want to attach my VM to the internal port vmprod ( VLAN 205 ) , I have to choose bridge vmbr1 with vlan tag 205 to map the interface of the VM to an OVS internal port. I was expecting that the internal port "vmprod, vmdev, ..." would appear in the bridge drop down list. Similar how port-groups work in VMware.