[ovs-dev] [PATCH] xenserver: Update Open vSwitch post upgrade instructions.

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Fri Apr 27 15:39:29 UTC 2012


On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 06:31:02PM -0700, Gurucharan Shetty wrote:
> Currently, when we upgrade the userspace rpm for XenServer,
> we print a message asking users to reboot the hypervisor.
> This is not needed. The reboot of hypervisor is needed when
> we upgrade the rpm containing the kernel module.  This
> reboot can sometimes be avoided by running a
> "service openvswitch force-reload-kmod".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gurucharan Shetty <gshetty at nicira.com>

Seems reasonable to me.  It seems to me that the new message could be
refined, but I don't have a specific wording to suggest.



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