[ovs-discuss] having trouble while trying to install OVS-2.3.1 in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64 bit

[Joe Stringer]

You built and installed the kernel module, but skipped the userspace utilities.

After ./configure ..., you need to 'make' and 'make install'.

On 8 April 2015 at 03:29, Sanghamitra De <sanghamitra.de at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> To install OVS-2.3.1 in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64 bit, I used the following
> command sequence which went fine:
>
> sudo mkdir /work
> cd /work
> wget http://openvswitch.org/releases/openvswitch-2.3.1.tar.gz
> tar zxf openvswitch-2.3.1.tar.gz
> cd openvswitch-2.3.1
> ./configure --with-linux=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
> sudo make modules_install
> sudo /sbin/modprobe openvswitch
>
> /sbin/lsmod
> cd /
> sudo rm -rf /work
>
> After that i made a disc image to use it on other nodes.
>
> However, the following commands for configuring ovs throw error as per the
> attached screenshot.
>
>
> #ovsdb-tool create /usr/local/etc/openvswitch/conf.db
> /users/peertest/openvswitch-2.3.1/vswitchd/vswitch.ovsschema
> # ovsdb-server --remote=punix:/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock \
> --remote=db:Open_vSwitch,Open_vSwitch,manager_options \
>                  --pidfile --detach
>
> What to do?
>
>
> Do i move straight over to execute the following sequence of configuring OVS
> without executing the above 2 commands which give error:
>
> ovs-vsctl --no-wait init
> sudo ovs-vswitchd --pidfile --detach --log-file
> sudo ovs-vsctl add-br OVSbr1sudo ovs-vsctl add-br OVSbr2sudo ifconfig eth2
> 0sudo ifconfig eth3 0sudo ovs-vsctl add-port OVSbr1 eth2sudo ovs-vsctl
> add-port OVSbr2 eth3sudo ovs-vsctl show
>
>
> Can anyone kindly give me the command sequence required??? Please help.
>
> PS: errors generated can be seen from the attached screenshot
>
>
> Thanks & Regards
> Sanghamitra
>
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