[ovs-discuss] br-compat Module

[Cali Ente]

Would the lack of the Linux bridge-utilities package cause these errors? Do
you know of any kernel requirements/configurations I should have enabled to
make sure OVS will run as expected?


On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
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