Re: [ovs-discuss] Create GRE tunnel failed, vswitch complains no kernel module

2010-12-09 Thread frank
Thanks Ben. It worked! just notice I should do xe-switch-network-backend openvswitch reboot On 12/09/2010 04:19 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 04:08:43PM -0800, frank wrote: So, openvswitch_mod.ko is a mandatory requirement for creating GRE? Yes. It is mandatory for using Open

Re: [ovs-discuss] Create GRE tunnel failed, vswitch complains no kernel module

2010-12-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 04:08:43PM -0800, frank wrote: > So, openvswitch_mod.ko is a mandatory requirement for creating GRE? Yes. It is mandatory for using Open vSwitch at all. > The OVS GRE module is not required? Open vSwitch does not have any separate GRE module. > By "rpm -ql openvswitch",

Re: [ovs-discuss] Create GRE tunnel failed, vswitch complains no kernel module

2010-12-09 Thread frank
Thanks Ben. So, openvswitch_mod.ko is a mandatory requirement for creating GRE? And said in http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss@openvswitch.org/msg00356.html Also, I should point out that while you are correct that you no longer need to load a separate OVS GRE module, you do still need to unl

Re: [ovs-discuss] Create GRE tunnel failed, vswitch complains no kernel module

2010-12-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 03:53:01PM -0800, frank wrote: > Dec 9 15:24:46 xenserver-frank1 ovs-vswitchd: > 00011|dpif_linux|ERR|/proc/devices: openvswitch major not found (is > the module loaded?) I suspect that the kernel module is not loaded. INSTALL.Linux has debugging tips: 6. If you built ke

[ovs-discuss] Create GRE tunnel failed, vswitch complains no kernel module

2010-12-09 Thread frank
Hi, I am trying to create GRE tunnel on XenServer5.6, the vswitch is default installed in the distribution. also from http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss@openvswitch.org/msg00356.html, Jesse said we need not load GRE module, but it seems I am failed due to lack of this module. I