-In the latter case, ovs-appctl will wait for ovs-vswitchd to finish
-reloading before it exits.
+ % ovsdb-server /usr/local/etc/ovs-vswitchd.conf.db --remote=punix:/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock
+
+Then initialize the database with "ovs-vsctl init". This is only
+necessary the first time after you create the database with
+ovsdb-tool (but running it at any time is harmless):
+
+ % ovs-vsctl init
+
+Then start the main Open vSwitch daemon, telling it to connect to the
+same Unix domain socket:
+
+ % ovs-vswitchd unix:/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock
+
+Now you may use ovs-vsctl to set up bridges and other Open vSwitch
+features. For example, to create a bridge named br0 and add ports
+eth0 and vif1.0 to it:
+
+ % ovs-vsctl add-br br0
+ % ovs-vsctl add-port br0 eth0
+ % ovs-vsctl add-port br0 vif1.0
+
+Please refer to ovs-vsctl(8) for more details.