On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Amogh vasekar <amog...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, > > This is Amogh here, a student at Stanford University. As a part of some > networking work, I'm trying to get OVS up and running with the net-next > kernel branch (3.4 / 3.5) > > I have built my kernel with OVS in "M" mode from menuconfig, and loaded it > successfully using modprobe. > > Now, I'm trying to get openvswitch-controller and openvswitch-switch up > and running. I tried : > > 1. Using apt-install to get latest package for these > 2. Using 1.4.1 branch, make and make install > > In both, I can start controller successfully. However, start switch gives > me the error : > > FATAL: Module openvswitch_mod not found. > * Inserting openvswitch module > Module has probably not been built for this kernel. > Install the openvswitch-datapath-source package, then read > /usr/share/doc/openvswitch-datapath-source/README.Debian > FATAL: Module openvswitch_mod not found. > * Inserting openvswitch module > > Now, since I am using the kernel module, I assume this should refer to > "openvswitch" instead of "openvswitch_mod". I'm really not sure why this is > coming up. > There is barely any documentation on getting kernel-based OVS running (it > would be great if you can point to some) > I can really use some quick help, since this is for evaluating CoDel > algorithms using OpenFlow and Mininet. > > From NEWS: > v1.7.0 - xx xxx xxxx > ------------------------ > - kernel modules are renamed. openvswitch_mod.ko is now > openvswitch.ko and brcompat_mod.ko is now brcompat.ko. > I guess you must use at least Open vSwitch 1.7 Thanks, > Amogh > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > discuss@openvswitch.org > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > >
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