[ovs-discuss] Running OVS in Mininet

[Dmita Levy]

How do I get the database server to run and listen to that socket? I've
installed it on other hosts but it only seems to give me trouble in
mininet...

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:03 PM, Bob Lantz <rlantz at cs.stanford.edu> wrote:

> Following up on what Ben said, you should make sure that you're not using
> two versions of OVS, one installed manually in /usr/local and another one
> installed via your OS's package system, and you should make sure that OVS
> is working, e.g.
>
> sudo service openvswitch-switch restart
>
>
> On Jul 31, 2013, at 10:24 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 01:12:02PM -0400, Dmita Levy wrote:
> >> I am trying to run the ovs-vsctl show command on a switch in mininet
> but I
> >> get the error message below. I've done some searches but could not find
> a
> >> definitive answer as to how to fix this. Does this mean the database is
> not
> >> created and I have to create it or does OVS run with limited
> capabilities
> >> in mininet?
> >>
> >> Jul 31 10:02:17|00001|stream_unix|ERR|/tmp/stream-unix.1846.0:
> connection
> >> to /usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock failed: No such file or
> directory
> >
> > The database server isn't running or isn't listening to that socket.
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