- INSTALL.RHEL
- INSTALL.XenServer
- INSTALL.NetBSD
+ - INSTALL.DPDK
Build Requirements
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% ./configure --with-linux=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
+ If --with-linux requests building for an unsupported version of
+ Linux, then "configure" will fail with an error message. Please
+ refer to the FAQ for advice in that case.
+
If you wish to build the kernel module for an architecture other
than the architecture of the machine used for the build, you may
specify the kernel architecture string using the KARCH variable
Before starting ovs-vswitchd itself, you need to start its
configuration database, ovsdb-server. Each machine on which Open
vSwitch is installed should run its own copy of ovsdb-server.
-Configure it to use the database you created during step 7 of
-installation, above, to listen on a Unix domain socket, to connect to
-any managers specified in the database itself, and to use the SSL
+Configure it to use the database you created during installation (as
+explained above), to listen on a Unix domain socket, to connect to any
+managers specified in the database itself, and to use the SSL
configuration in the database:
% ovsdb-server --remote=punix:/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock \