[ovs-discuss] openvswitch on the latest Linux kernel 3.7

[Jesse Gross]

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Qin, Xiaohong <Xiaohong.Qin at emc.com> wrote:
> Hi Jesse,
>
> So I did this CLI,
>
> sudo apt-get install -y openvswitch-switch and it failed with the following error message,
>
> Setting up openvswitch-switch (1.4.0-1ubuntu1.3) ...
> FATAL: Module openvswitch_mod not found.
>  * Inserting openvswitch module
>  * not removing bridge module because bridges exist (virbr0)
> invoke-rc.d: initscript openvswitch-switch, action "load-kmod" failed.
>
> It's looking for openvswitch_mod but I don't this module name, since it's been linked as part of Linux kernel as this module,
>
> /lib/modules/3.7.0-030700-generic/kernel/net/openvswitch/openvswitch.ko
>
> How do I modify the user module config file to use this kernel module instead?

You can edit the init script to drop the _mod part of
openvswitch_mod.ko.  Later versions of OVS use the same name for both
the out of tree module and upstream but that didn't happen until 1.7.