[ovs-discuss] question of the installation of open vswitch

[Ben Pfaff]

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 2:59 AM, Cain NG <cain.ng83 at gmail.com> wrote:
> My current Linux distribution is Centos 5.4 (kernel: 2.6.18-164.e15xen). I
> would like to ask about what's the different if I do the command
> "./configure --with-126=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build"(build kernel module)
> and just "./configure". I'm afraid it will affect my testing if i do not
> include open vswitch into the kernel. or could you please provided more
> instruction that install open vswitch in my Linux environment? thanks!

If you don't build the kernel module, Open vSwitch probably won't work in your
application.  If it does, then it will be much slower than it should be.