[ovs-discuss] Openvswitch with kernel 3.4 / 3.5

[Jesse Gross]

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Ansis Atteka <aatteka at nicira.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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

The actual code is compatible with 1.4 but the scripts on earlier
versions will look for the old module name.