[ovs-discuss] need help - installing userspace openvswitch

Jingfei Hu jingfei.hu at gmail.com
Mon Apr 9 12:57:32 UTC 2012


Justin, then it's not a userspace vswitch, right?

2012/4/9 Justin Pettit <jpettit at nicira.com>

> Yes, you need to build the kernel module as described in INSTALL.Linux.
>  The important part is the "--with-linux" option in the configure line.
>  Make sure that points to your kernel sources.
>
> --Justin
>
>
> On Apr 8, 2012, at 12:38 PM, evo evo wrote:
>
> >
> >  Hi All,
> >
> > I am new to openvswitch, want to compile and install userspace vswitch,
> i am using ubuntu/64bit AMD machine.
> >
> > I followed all the steps on INSTALL.Linux and INSTALL.Linux.
> >
> > * ovsdb-server is running smoothly.
> > * ovs-vswitchd is able to connect to ovsdb-server.
> >
> > but i see below error when i start ovs-vswitchd by "ovs-vswitchd
> --pidfile --detach":
> >
> > 2012-04-08T19:12:25Z|00004|dpif_linux|ERR|Generic Netlink family
> 'ovs_datapath' does not exist. The Open vSwitch kernel module is probably
> not loaded.
> > 2012-04-08T19:12:25Z|00005|dpif|WARN|failed to enumerate system
> datapaths: No such file or directory
> >
> >
> > 1) How do i resolve above error?
> > 2) Do i need to compile kernel module to resolve above error?
> > 3) One more thing, when i compile openvswitch i get all the binaries on
> /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin but i don't see
> > any "datapath/linux/openvswitch.ko" being genrated, not sure if there is
> any separate compilation for this.
> >
> > Any info will be very helpful for me.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > regards,
> > Evo.
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