- How to Install Open vSwitch on Linux
- ====================================
+ How to Install Open vSwitch on Linux and FreeBSD
+ ================================================
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, see INSTALL.XenServer instead.
+generic Linux or FreeBSD host. If you want to install Open vSwitch on
+a Citrix 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
libssl is installed, then Open vSwitch will automatically build
with support for it.
-To compile the kernel module, you must also install the following. If
-you cannot build or install the kernel module, you may use the
-userspace-only implementation, at a cost in performance. The
+To compile the kernel module on Linux, you must also install the
+following. If you cannot build or install the kernel module, you may
+use the userspace-only implementation, at a cost in performance. The
userspace implementation may also lack some features. Refer to
INSTALL.userspace for more information.
- libssl compatible with the libssl used for build, if OpenSSL was
used for the build.
- - The Linux kernel version configured as part of the build.
+ - On Linux, the same kernel version configured as part of the build.
- - For optional support of ingress policing, the "tc" program from
- iproute2 (part of all major distributions and available at
+ - For optional support of ingress policing on Linux, the "tc" program
+ from iproute2 (part of all major distributions and available at
http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Net:Iproute2).
-You should ensure that /dev/urandom exists. To support TAP devices,
-you must also ensure that /dev/net/tun exists.
+On Linux you should ensure that /dev/urandom exists. To support TAP
+devices, you must also ensure that /dev/net/tun exists.
To run the ovsdbmonitor tool, the machine must also have the following
software:
(On Debian "lenny" the above can be installed with "apt-get install
python-json python-qt4 python-zopeinterface python-twisted-conch".)
-Building and Installing Open vSwitch for Linux
-==============================================
+Building and Installing Open vSwitch for Linux or FreeBSD
+=========================================================
Once you have installed all the prerequisites listed above in the Base
Prerequisites section, follow the procedure below to build.
-1. If you pulled the sources directly from an Open vSwitch Git tree,
+1. If you pulled the sources directly from an Open vSwitch Git tree,
run boot.sh in the top source directory:
% ./boot.sh
additional environment variables. For a full list, invoke
configure with the --help option.
-3. Run make in the top source directory:
+3. Run make in the top source directory:
% make
+ On FreeBSD you may need to use GNU make (gmake) or NetBSD make
+ (bmake) instead of the native make.
+
For improved warnings if you installed "sparse" (see
"Prerequisites"), add C=1 to the "make" command line.
- If there is no important data in your database, then you may
delete the database file and recreate it with ovsdb-tool,
following the instructions under "Building and Installing Open
- vSwitch for Linux".
+ vSwitch for Linux or FreeBSD".
- If you want to preserve the contents of your database, back it
up first, then use "ovsdb-tool convert" to upgrade it, e.g.:
% ovsdb-tool convert /usr/local/etc/openvswitch/conf.db vswitchd/vswitch.ovsschema
4. Start the Open vSwitch daemons as described under "Building and
- Installing Open vSwitch for Linux" above.
+ Installing Open vSwitch for Linux or FreeBSD" above.
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