[ovs-discuss] Openvswitch with kernel 3.4 / 3.5

[Ansis Atteka]

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Amogh vasekar <amoghvk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> This is Amogh here, a student at Stanford University. As a part of some
> networking work, I'm trying to get OVS up and running with the net-next
> kernel branch (3.4 / 3.5)
>
> I have built my kernel with OVS in "M" mode from menuconfig, and loaded it
> successfully using modprobe.
>
> Now, I'm trying to get openvswitch-controller and openvswitch-switch up
> and running. I tried :
>
> 1. Using apt-install to get latest package for these
> 2. Using 1.4.1 branch, make and make install
>
> In both, I can start controller successfully. However, start switch gives
> me the error :
>
> FATAL: Module openvswitch_mod not found.
>  * Inserting openvswitch module
> Module has probably not been built for this kernel.
> Install the openvswitch-datapath-source package, then read
> /usr/share/doc/openvswitch-datapath-source/README.Debian
> FATAL: Module openvswitch_mod not found.
>  * Inserting openvswitch module
>
> Now, since I am using the kernel module, I assume this should refer to
> "openvswitch" instead of "openvswitch_mod". I'm really not sure why this is
> coming up.
> There is barely any documentation on getting kernel-based OVS running (it
> would be great if you can point to some)
> I can really use some quick help, since this is for evaluating CoDel
> algorithms using OpenFlow and Mininet.
>
> From NEWS:

> v1.7.0 - xx xxx xxxx
> ------------------------
>     - kernel modules are renamed. openvswitch_mod.ko is now
>       openvswitch.ko and brcompat_mod.ko is now brcompat.ko.
>

I guess you must use at least Open vSwitch 1.7

Thanks,
> Amogh
>
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