- GNU make.
+Also, you may find the ovs-dev script found in utilities/ovs-dev.py useful.
+
Installation Requirements
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6. Run "make install" to install the executables and manpages into the
running system, by default under /usr/local.
-7. If you built kernel modules, you may load them with "insmod", e.g.:
+7. If you built kernel modules, you may install and load them, e.g.:
- % insmod datapath/linux/openvswitch.ko
+ % make modules_install
+ % /sbin/modprobe openvswitch
- You may need to specify a full path to insmod, e.g. /sbin/insmod.
To verify that the modules have been loaded, run "/sbin/lsmod" and
check that openvswitch is listed.
- If the "insmod" operation fails, look at the last few kernel log
+ If the "modprobe" operation fails, look at the last few kernel log
messages (e.g. with "dmesg | tail"):
- The message "openvswitch: exports duplicate symbol
you do not understand what this means or do not know if your driver
will work, do not set this.
- Once you verify that the kernel modules load properly, you should
- install them:
-
- % make modules_install
-
8. Initialize the configuration database using ovsdb-tool, e.g.:
% mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/openvswitch