[ovs-discuss] OVS on opensource Xen

[James Hongyi Zeng]

Does that mean installing OVS in RHEL+XEN is same to the installation in
RHEL?

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 09:55:21AM -0700, James Hongyi Zeng wrote:
> >     First, I got "openvswitch_mod: exports duplicate symbol
> > br_should_route_hook (owned by bridge)". When I try to remove bridge.ko,
> I
> > got "ERROR: Module bridge is in use by xt_physdev". When I try to remove
> > xt_physdev, I got "ERROR: Module xt_physdev is in use". How can I
> workaround
> > this?
> >
> >     And, how can I make sure the openvswitch_mod is always loaded before
> > bridge? When I run modprobe, it seems to me that openvswitch_mod is not
> > loaded in the ko pool after make install.
>
> You have two choices regarding the kernel module.  You can upgrade to
> a kernel new enough that the bridge and the Open vSwitch kernel
> modules can coexist, or you can refrain from loading the bridge module
> at all.
>
> "make install" by itself doesn't install the kernel module.  To
> install the kernel module, run "make modules_install" from
> datapath/linux-2.6 in the source tree.
>
> > [hyzeng at nms-oexp2 drivers]$ sudo modprobe openvswitch_mod
> > FATAL: Module openvswitch_mod not found.
> >
> >     Is there anything I should pay attention to when installing OVS in
> > opensource Xen on RHEL?
>
> Another option is to use the RHEL RPM packaging available in the
> "master" branch of the Open vSwitch Git repository.
>
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