On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Ansis Atteka <aatt...@nicira.com> wrote: > > > 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
The actual code is compatible with 1.4 but the scripts on earlier versions will look for the old module name. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
