X-Git-Url: http://git.onelab.eu/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL.RHEL;h=ff79c8943f176103bbcfa9972cc3dcfc59976263;hb=54fa24c559938dec9be7cb64de741fe36ee83e07;hp=35589484026a57f2dd95c7f6fa51f7529e9d87b3;hpb=c434706a374bd44d1274e7bdbee40067a6620b61;p=sliver-openvswitch.git diff --git a/INSTALL.RHEL b/INSTALL.RHEL index 355894840..ff79c8943 100644 --- a/INSTALL.RHEL +++ b/INSTALL.RHEL @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ This document describes how to build and install Open vSwitch on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) host. If you want to install Open vSwitch -on a generic Linux host, see INSTALL.Linux instead. +on a generic Linux host, see INSTALL instead. We have tested these instructions with RHEL 5.6 and RHEL 6.0. @@ -53,7 +53,24 @@ RHEL. On RHEL 5, the default RPM source directory is rpmbuild -bb rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec - This produces an "kmod-openvswitch" RPM. + You might have to specify a kernel version and/or variants, e.g.: + + rpmbuild -bb \ + -D "kversion 2.6.32-131.6.1.el6.x86_64" \ + -D "kflavors default debug kdump" \ + rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec + + This produces an "kmod-openvswitch" RPM for each kernel variant, + in this example: "kmod-openvswitch", "kmod-openvswitch-debug", and + "kmod-openvswitch-kdump". + +Red Hat Network Scripts Integration +----------------------------------- + +Simple integration with Red Hat network scripts has been implemented. +Please read rhel/README.RHEL in the source tree or +/usr/share/doc/openvswitch/README.RHEL in the installed openvswitch +package for details. Reporting Bugs --------------