[ovs-discuss] Unable to install OVS on XenVM

[Ben Pfaff]

On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 06:36:32PM -0600, navaz wrote:
> I didnt followed the step 2 which mentioned as "Follow the instructions at
> INSTALL.Linux file" . Where can i find Install.linux file?

It's in the source tree.  At some point we renamed it to just INSTALL.

> I tried to build the kernel module using
> root at ovs2:~/openvswitch-1.7.3# uname -r
> 3.2.46
> 
> ./configure --with-linux=/lib/modules/3.2.46/build
> 
> but it throws the below error message.
> 
> checking for Linux build directory... no
> configure: error: source dir /lib/modules/3.2.46/build doesn't exist

Then you need to get it from your distribution.