distribution tarball), or if you modify the Open vSwitch build system,
you will also need the following software:
- - Autoconf version 2.63 or later.
+ - Autoconf version 2.64 or later.
- Automake version 1.10 or later.
- pkg-config. We test with version 0.22.
+ - Python 2.x, for x >= 4.
+
Installation Requirements
-------------------------
To verify that the modules have been loaded, run "/sbin/lsmod" and
check that openvswitch_mod is listed.
-Configuration
-=============
+7. Initialize the configuration database using ovsdb-tool, e.g.:
+
+ % ovsdb-tool create /etc/ovs-vswitchd.conf.db vswitchd/vswitch.ovsschema
+
+Startup
+=======
+
+Before starting ovs-vswitchd itself, you need to start its
+configuration database, ovsdb-server. Configure it to use the
+database you created during step 7 of installation, above, and to
+listen on a Unix domain socket, e.g.:
+
+ % ovsdb-server /etc/ovs-vswitchd.conf.db --remote=punix:/var/run/ovsdb-server
+
+Then start the main Open vSwitch daemon, telling it to connect to the
+same Unix domain socket:
-Open vSwitch is configured primarily through a configuration file,
-whose name is specified on the ovs-vswitchd command line. Please
-refer to ovs-vswitchd(8) and ovs-vswitchd.conf(5) for information on
-how to start ovs-vswitchd and the syntax of its configuration file,
-respectively.
+ % ovs-vswitchd unix:/var/run/ovsdb-server
-At runtime, you may make ovs-vswitchd reload its configuration file
-and update its configuration accordingly by sending it a SIGHUP
-signal. The ovs-appctl utility can also be used to do this:
+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-appctl vswitchd/reload
+ % ovs-vsctl add-br br0
+ % ovs-vsctl add-port br0 eth0
+ % ovs-vsctl add-port br0 vif1.0
-In the latter case, ovs-appctl will wait for ovs-vswitchd to finish
-reloading before it exits.
+Please refer to ovs-vsctl(8) for more details.
Bug Reporting
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