[ovs-discuss] Unable to install OVS on XenVM

[Justin Pettit]

Is ovs-vswitchd running?

--Justin


On Nov 30, 2013, at 12:26 PM, navaz <navaz.enc at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Ben and Nick.
> 
> Now I have loaded disk image you have mentioned after selecting silver type: emulab-xen.
> 
> It is the output.
> vm:~% sudo bash
> root at vm:~# ovs-vsctl show
> 378b2a4d-481e-4f4c-b97b-eb8b6c0ea5f1
>     ovs_version: "1.9.3"
> root at vm:~#
> root at vm:~# ovs-vsctl add-br br0
> root at vm:~# ovs-ofctl show br0
> ovs-ofctl: br0 is not a bridge or a socket
> root at vm:~# ovs-vsctl show
> 378b2a4d-481e-4f4c-b97b-eb8b6c0ea5f1
>     Bridge "br0"
>         Port "br0"
>             Interface "br0"
>                 type: internal
>     ovs_version: "1.9.3"
> root at vm:~#
> 
> why I am getting the above error message?
> 
> Thanks
> Navaz
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Nicholas Bastin <nick.bastin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 2:36 PM, navaz <navaz.enc at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to install OVS on XENVM from intsageniracks. I followed the steps mentioned here. 
> 
> http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/HowTo/InstallOVSInProtoGENI
> 
> Those steps unfortunately don't work anymore (and the ubuntu repos no longer have the kernel headers for 3.2.46, and you can't replace their kernel due to the way their PV booting works).  There is a disk image that you can use that already has OVS built and installed:
> 
>  "url": "https://www.utahddc.geniracks.net/image_metadata.php?uuid=468c846d-5395-11e3-880c-000000000000", 
>  "urn": "urn:publicid:IDN+utahddc.geniracks.net+image+ch-geni-net:OVSUbuntu1204LTS"
> 
> You should be able to reference this in your rspecs using:
> 
>     <sliver_type name="emulab-xen">
>       <disk_image name="urn:publicid:IDN+utahddc.geniracks.net+image+ch-geni-net:OVSUbuntu1204LTS"/>
>     </sliver_type>
> 
> You can use that at any rack - the AM will copy it from the source if it doesn't already exist at that site.
> 
> --
> Nick
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Abdul Navaz
> Masters in Network Communications
> University of Houston
> Houston, TX - 77204-4020
> Ph - 281-685-0388
> fabdulnavaz at uh.edu
> 
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