be compiled with IPv6 support (CONFIG_IPV6). This allows for
special handling (such as path MTU discovery) of IPv6 packets.
+ To configure HTB or HFSC quality of service with Open vSwitch,
+ you must enable the respective configuration options.
+
To use Open vSwitch support for TAP devices, you must enable
CONFIG_TUN.
infrastructure.
If you are working from a Git tree or snapshot (instead of from a
-distribution tarball), or if you modify the Open vSwitch build system,
-you will also need the following software:
+distribution tarball), or if you modify the Open vSwitch build system
+or the database schema, you will also need the following software:
- Autoconf version 2.64 or later.
- pyuic4 from PyQt4 (http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk).
+To run the unit tests, you also need:
+
+ - Perl. Version 5.10.1 is known to work. Earlier versions should
+ also work.
+
If you modify the vswitchd database schema, then the E-R diagram in
the ovs-vswitchd.conf.db(5) manpage will be updated properly only if
you have the following:
- "dot" from graphviz (http://www.graphviz.org/).
+ - Perl. Version 5.10.1 is known to work. Earlier versions should
+ also work.
+
+ - Python 2.x, for x >= 4.
+
Installation Requirements
-------------------------
To build the Linux kernel module, so that you can run the
kernel-based switch, pass the location of the kernel build
directory on --with-l26. For example, to build for a running
- instance of Linux 2.6:
+ instance of Linux:
- % ./configure --with-l26=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
+ % ./configure --with-linux=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
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
when invoking the configure script. For example, to build for MIPS
- with Linux 2.6:
+ with Linux:
- % ./configure --with-l26=/path/to/linux-2.6 KARCH=mips
+ % ./configure --with-linux=/path/to/linux KARCH=mips
The configure script accepts a number of other options and honors
additional environment variables. For a full list, invoke
6. If you built kernel modules, you may load them with "insmod", e.g.:
- % insmod datapath/linux-2.6/openvswitch_mod.ko
+ % insmod datapath/linux/openvswitch_mod.ko
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
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.:
--bootstrap-ca-cert=db:SSL,ca_cert \
--pidfile --detach
+(If you built Open vSwitch without SSL support, then omit
+--private-key, --certificate, and --bootstrap-ca-cert.)
+
Then initialize the database using ovs-vsctl. This is only
necessary the first time after you create the database with
ovsdb-tool (but running it at any time is harmless):
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