On Sun, Oct 04, 2015 at 03:20:09PM -0700, Ansis Atteka wrote: > Mention: > 1. that these instructions have been tested with CentOS 7 (which is > almost identical distribution to RHEL 7). > 2. directory where rpm packages that were just built can be found. > 3. mention SElinux implications that could prevent OVS from starting, > if not using designated OVS directories. > > Signed-off-by: Ansis Atteka <aatt...@nicira.com> > --- > INSTALL.RHEL.md | 11 ++++++++++- > 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/INSTALL.RHEL.md b/INSTALL.RHEL.md > index 8746bc6..9aefc09 100644 > --- a/INSTALL.RHEL.md > +++ b/INSTALL.RHEL.md > @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ This document describes how to build and install Open vSwitch > on a Red > Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) host. If you want to install Open vSwitch > on a generic Linux host, see [INSTALL.md] instead. > > -We have tested these instructions with RHEL 5.6 and RHEL 6.0. > +We have tested these instructions with RHEL 5.6 and RHEL 6.0 and CentOS 7. > > Building Open vSwitch for RHEL > ------------------------------ > @@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ $HOME/rpmbuild/SOURCES. > directory. Then unpack the tarball and "cd" into its root, e.g.: > > ``` > + cd $HOME/rpmbuild/SOURCES
Same here, the text above says to make a copy somewhere else and you are using SOURCES/ for that. fbl > tar xzf openvswitch-x.y.z.tar.gz > cd openvswitch-x.y.z > ``` > @@ -139,6 +140,8 @@ $HOME/rpmbuild/SOURCES. > rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec > ``` > > +10. Find the created packages in $HOME/rpmbuild/RPMS directory > + > This produces an "kmod-openvswitch" RPM for each kernel variant, in > this example: "kmod-openvswitch", "kmod-openvswitch-debug", and > "kmod-openvswitch-kdump". > @@ -149,6 +152,12 @@ Geneve, GRE, VXLAN, LISP etc., they will either have to > manually add iptables > firewall rules to allow the tunnel traffic or add it through a startup script > (Please refer to the "enable-protocol" command in the ovs-ctl(8) manpage). > > +RHEL based distributions nowadays ship with SElinux enabled in enforcing mode > +by default. This means that, if you have problems starting Open vSwitch, > then > +first check that Open vSwitch is configured to run inside its SElinux > confined > +area. For more details see "man (8) openvswitch_selinux" that is distributed > +with selinux-policy-devel package on your distribution. > + > Red Hat Network Scripts Integration > ----------------------------------- > > -- > 2.1.4 > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > dev@openvswitch.org > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
