[ovs-discuss] br-compat Module

[Ben Pfaff]

On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:25:10AM -0700, Cali Ente wrote:
> Thanks for quick replies. Ok here are the symptoms of my problem. If anyone
> can point me in a specific direction I would appreciate it. I am porting
> OVS to an embedded platform.  When running the start up script
> "/etc/init.d/openvswitch start", ovs-vswitchd and ovsdb-server both boot
> correctly.
> 
> The only error when running the start up scripts is
> ovs-ctl: line 714: uuidgen: not found
> missing uuidgen, could not generate system ID ... failed!
> 
> After this I can create bridges and ports with ovs-vsctl add-br add-port.
> However my virtual switches are not showing up as network interfaces under
> ifconfig.
> 
> Are the UUIDs necessary for identifying virtual bridges as net devices or
> is this a deeper problem. Just hoping for some confirmation on this idea
> before more cross compiling

The lack of uuidgen shouldn't be related to the other problems you
report.