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1 | How to Install Open vSwitch on Red Hat Enterprise Linux |
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3 | ||
4 | This document describes how to build and install Open vSwitch on a Red | |
5 | Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) host. If you want to install Open vSwitch | |
6 | on a generic Linux host, see INSTALL.Linux instead. | |
7 | ||
8 | We have tested these instructions with RHEL 5.6 and RHEL 6.0. | |
9 | ||
10 | Building Open vSwitch for RHEL | |
11 | ------------------------------ | |
12 | ||
13 | You may build from an Open vSwitch distribution tarball or from an | |
14 | Open vSwitch Git tree. | |
15 | ||
16 | Before you begin, note the RPM source directory on your version of | |
17 | RHEL. On RHEL 5, the default RPM source directory is | |
18 | /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES. On RHEL 6, it is $HOME/rpmbuild/SOURCES. | |
19 | ||
20 | 1. If you are building from an Open vSwitch Git tree, then you will | |
21 | need to first create a distribution tarball by running "./boot.sh; | |
22 | ./configure; make dist" in the Git tree. | |
23 | ||
24 | 2. Copy the distribution tarball into the RPM source directory. | |
25 | ||
26 | 3. Unpack the distribution tarball into a temporary directory and "cd" | |
27 | into the root of the distribution tarball. | |
28 | ||
29 | 4. To build Open vSwitch userspace, run: | |
30 | ||
31 | rpmbuild -bb rhel/openvswitch.spec | |
32 | ||
33 | This produces two RPMs: "openvswitch" and "openvswitch-debuginfo". | |
34 | ||
35 | 5a. On RHEL 5, to build the Open vSwitch kernel module, copy | |
36 | rhel/kmodtool-openvswitch-el5.sh into the RPM source directory and | |
37 | run: | |
38 | ||
39 | rpmbuild -bb --target=i686-unknown-linux \ | |
40 | rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel5.spec | |
41 | ||
42 | You might have to specify a kernel version, e.g.: | |
43 | ||
44 | rpmbuild -bb -D "kversion 2.6.18-238.12.1.el5" \ | |
45 | --target=i686-unknown-linux \ | |
46 | rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel5.spec | |
47 | ||
48 | This produces a "kmod-openvswitch" RPM for each kernel variant, | |
49 | which is usually: "kmod-openvswitch", "kmod-openvswitch-xen", and | |
50 | "kmod-openvswitch-PAE". | |
51 | ||
52 | 5b. On RHEL 6, to build the Open vSwitch kernel module, run: | |
53 | ||
54 | rpmbuild -bb rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec | |
55 | ||
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56 | You might have to specify a kernel version and/or variants, e.g.: |
57 | ||
58 | rpmbuild -bb \ | |
59 | -D "kversion 2.6.32-131.6.1.el6.x86_64" \ | |
60 | -D "kflavors default debug kdump" \ | |
61 | rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec | |
62 | ||
63 | This produces an "kmod-openvswitch" RPM for each kernel variant, | |
64 | in this example: "kmod-openvswitch", "kmod-openvswitch-debug", and | |
65 | "kmod-openvswitch-kdump". | |
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67 | Red Hat Network Scripts Integration |
68 | ----------------------------------- | |
69 | ||
70 | Simple integration with Red Hat network scripts has been implemented. | |
71 | Please read rhel/README.RHEL in the source tree or | |
72 | /usr/share/doc/openvswitch/README.RHEL in the installed openvswitch | |
73 | package for details. | |
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75 | Reporting Bugs |
76 | -------------- | |
77 | ||
78 | Please report problems to bugs@openvswitch.org. |