X-Git-Url: http://git.onelab.eu/?p=sliver-openvswitch.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL.Debian;h=68c12acc2bd1ed3a13beea62aeffad6944b374c9;hp=f7456c55f9011ee24e995633fd19cbe2a00b964f;hb=HEAD;hpb=ff23db30f98a53d8f96c429a3441d6a678c731fd diff --git a/INSTALL.Debian b/INSTALL.Debian index f7456c55f..68c12acc2 100644 --- a/INSTALL.Debian +++ b/INSTALL.Debian @@ -72,47 +72,12 @@ packages. You must be superuser to install Debian packages. -1. Start by installing an Open vSwitch kernel module. There are multiple ways - to do this. In order of increasing manual effort, these are: - - * Use a Linux kernel 3.3 or later, which has an integrated Open - vSwitch kernel module. - - The upstream Linux kernel module lacks a few features that - are in the third-party module. For details, please see the - FAQ, "What features are not available in the Open vSwitch - kernel datapath that ships as part of the upstream Linux - kernel?". - - * Install the "openvswitch-datapath-dkms" Debian package that - you built earlier. This should automatically build and - install the Open vSwitch kernel module for your running - kernel. - - This option requires that you have a compiler and toolchain - installed on the machine where you run Open vSwitch, which - may be unacceptable in some production server environments. - - * Install the "openvswitch-datapath-source" Debian package, use - "module-assistant" to build a Debian package of the Open - vSwitch kernel module for your kernel, and then install that - Debian package. - - You can install the kernel module Debian packages that you - build this way on the same machine where you built it or on - another machine or machines, which means that you don't - necessarily have to have any build infrastructure on the - machines where you use the kernel module. - - /usr/share/doc/openvswitch-datapath-source/README.Debian has - details on the build process. - - * Build and install the kernel module by hand. +1. Start by installing an Open vSwitch kernel module. See + debian/openvswitch-switch.README.Debian for the available options. 2. Install the "openvswitch-switch" and "openvswitch-common" packages. These packages include the core userspace components of the switch. - Open vSwitch .deb packages not mentioned above are rarely useful. Please refer to their individual package descriptions to find out whether any of them are useful to you.