Support vlan_group workaround implemented in XenServer kernels.

[sliver-openvswitch.git] / INSTALL.Linux

diff --git a/INSTALL.Linux b/INSTALL.Linux
index 9d69bd8..0d56da6 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL.Linux
+++ b/INSTALL.Linux
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 This document describes how to build and install Open vSwitch on a
 generic Linux host.  If you want to install Open vSwitch on a Citrix
-XenServer version 5.5.0, see INSTALL.XenServer instead.
+XenServer, see INSTALL.XenServer instead.
 
 This version of Open vSwitch may be built manually with "configure"
 and "make", as described below.  You may also build Debian packages by
@@ -234,9 +234,10 @@ Prerequisites section, follow the procedure below to build.
    whether this is the case. If you know that your particular driver can
    handle it (for example by testing sending large TCP packets over VLANs)
    then passing in a value of 1 may improve performance. Modules built for
-   Linux kernels 2.6.37 and later do not need this and do not have this
-   parameter. If you do not understand what this means or do not know if
-   your driver will work, do not set this.
+   Linux kernels 2.6.37 and later, as well as specially patched versions
+   of earlier kernels, do not need this and do not have this parameter. If
+   you do not understand what this means or do not know if your driver
+   will work, do not set this.
 
 7. Initialize the configuration database using ovsdb-tool, e.g.:
 
@@ -256,7 +257,7 @@ configuration in the database:
 
       % ovsdb-server /usr/local/etc/openvswitch/conf.db \
                       --remote=punix:/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock \
-                      --remote=db:Open_vSwitch,managers \
+                      --remote=db:Open_vSwitch,manager_options \
                       --private-key=db:SSL,private_key \
                       --certificate=db:SSL,certificate \
                       --bootstrap-ca-cert=db:SSL,ca_cert \
@@ -292,7 +293,7 @@ also upgrade the database schema:
 
 1. Stop the Open vSwitch daemons, e.g.:
 
-      % ovs-kill ovsdb-server.pid ovs-vswitchd.pid
+      % kill `cd /usr/local/var/run && cat ovsdb-server.pid ovs-vswitchd.pid`
 
 2. Install the new Open vSwitch release.