X-Git-Url: http://git.onelab.eu/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL.Linux;h=c7e4ed97d49aa356a019166aad0516ea351de519;hb=72ba2ed371ae593b6fda1d196c31d7dd408a6a1c;hp=0d56da65d7c0a99fe6dc7918a46f9a7ea01c8d08;hpb=431488e6638d3fbb53d215fa10d2ff2d8f1c2824;p=sliver-openvswitch.git diff --git a/INSTALL.Linux b/INSTALL.Linux index 0d56da65d..c7e4ed97d 100644 --- a/INSTALL.Linux +++ b/INSTALL.Linux @@ -54,6 +54,9 @@ INSTALL.userspace for more information. 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. @@ -67,8 +70,8 @@ INSTALL.userspace for more information. 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. @@ -81,12 +84,22 @@ following: - 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 ------------------------- @@ -159,17 +172,17 @@ Prerequisites section, follow the procedure below to build. 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 @@ -186,7 +199,7 @@ Prerequisites section, follow the procedure below to build. 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 @@ -263,6 +276,9 @@ configuration in the database: --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):