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| 2 | Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may | |
| 3 | not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain | |
| 4 | a copy of the License at | |
| 5 | ||
| 6 | http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 | |
| 7 | ||
| 8 | Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software | |
| 9 | distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT | |
| 10 | WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the | |
| 11 | License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations | |
| 12 | under the License. | |
| 13 | ||
| 14 | Convention for heading levels in Open vSwitch documentation: | |
| 15 | ||
| 16 | ======= Heading 0 (reserved for the title in a document) | |
| 17 | ------- Heading 1 | |
| 18 | ~~~~~~~ Heading 2 | |
| 19 | +++++++ Heading 3 | |
| 20 | ''''''' Heading 4 | |
| 21 | ||
| 22 | Avoid deeper levels because they do not render well. | |
| 23 | ||
| 24 | ==================================== | |
| 25 | Distributions packaging Open vSwitch | |
| 26 | ==================================== | |
| 27 | ||
| 28 | This document lists various popular distributions packaging Open vSwitch. | |
| 29 | Open vSwitch is packaged by various distributions for multiple platforms and | |
| 30 | architectures. | |
| 31 | ||
| 32 | .. note:: | |
| 33 | The packaged version available with distributions may not be latest | |
| 34 | Open vSwitch release. | |
| 35 | ||
| 36 | Debian | |
| 37 | ------- | |
| 38 | ||
| 39 | You can use ``apt-get`` or ``aptitude`` to install the .deb packages and must | |
| 40 | be superuser. | |
| 41 | ||
| 42 | 1. Debian has ``openvswitch-switch`` and ``openvswitch-common`` .deb packages | |
| 43 | that includes the core userspace components of the switch. | |
| 44 | ||
| 45 | 2. For kernel datapath, ``openvswitch-datapath-dkms`` can be installed to | |
| 46 | automatically build and install Open vSwitch kernel module for your running | |
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47 | kernel. This package is only available when the .deb packages are built from |
| 48 | the Open vSwitch repository; it is not downstream in Debian or Ubuntu releases. | |
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| 49df3c0f | 50 | 3. For fast userspace switching, Open vSwitch with DPDK support is |
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51 | bundled in the package ``openvswitch-switch-dpdk``. This package is only |
| 52 | available in the Ubuntu distribution; it is not upstream in the Open vSwitch | |
| 53 | repository or downstream in Debian. | |
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54 | |
| 55 | Fedora | |
| 56 | ------ | |
| 57 | ||
| 58 | Fedora provides ``openvswitch``, ``openvswitch-devel``, ``openvswitch-test`` | |
| 59 | and ``openvswitch-debuginfo`` rpm packages. You can install ``openvswitch`` | |
| 60 | package in minimum installation. Use ``yum`` or ``dnf`` to install the rpm | |
| 61 | packages and must be superuser. | |
| 62 | ||
| 63 | Red Hat | |
| 64 | ------- | |
| 65 | ||
| 66 | RHEL distributes ``openvswitch`` rpm package that supports kernel datapath. | |
| 67 | DPDK accelerated Open vSwitch can be installed using ``openvswitch-dpdk`` | |
| 68 | package. | |
| 69 | ||
| 70 | OpenSuSE | |
| 71 | -------- | |
| 72 | ||
| 73 | OpenSUSE provides ``openvswitch``, ``openvswitch-switch`` rpm packages. Also | |
| 74 | ``openvswitch-dpdk`` and ``openvswitch-dpdk-switch`` can be installed for | |
| 75 | Open vSwitch using DPDK accelerated datapath. |