[ovs-discuss] Hi openvswitch team

[Jesse Gross]

On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 7:12 PM, Grace Lee <dil15 at uclive.ac.nz> wrote:
> Hi my kernel version is 4.4.13-v7+ so the compatible openvswitch version
> should be 2.6.x. However, the latest openvswitch version is 2.5.0. when I
> ./configure -with linux, it gives me an error displaying "
>
> configure: error: Linux kernel in <dir> is version <x>, but
>    version newer than <y> is not supported (please refer to the
>    FAQ for advice).

In most case you can simply use the Open vSwitch module that is
packaged with your distribution kernel. You just need to build the OVS
without kernel support and modprobe openvswitch.

If there is a feature that is not available in that kernel module, you
can also use branch-2.6 from OVS git, which supports kernels up to
4.7.