1 How to Install Open vSwitch on Citrix XenServer
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4 This document describes how to build and install Open vSwitch on a
5 Citrix XenServer host. If you want to install Open vSwitch on a
6 generic Linux host, see INSTALL.Linux instead.
8 These instructions have been tested with XenServer 5.6 FP1.
10 Building Open vSwitch for XenServer
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13 The recommended build environment to build RPMs for Citrix XenServer
14 is the DDK VM available from Citrix. If you are building from an Open
15 vSwitch distribution tarball, this VM has all the tools that you will
16 need. If you are building from an Open vSwitch Git tree, then you
17 will need to first create a distribution tarball elsewhere, by running
18 "./boot.sh; ./configure; make dist" in the Git tree, because the DDK
19 VM does not include Autoconf or Automake that are required to
20 bootstrap the Open vSwitch distribution.
22 Once you have a distribution tarball, copy it into
23 /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES inside the VM. Then execute the following:
25 VERSION=<Open vSwitch version>
26 XENKERNEL=<Xen kernel version>
28 tar xfz /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/openvswitch-$VERSION.tar.gz
30 -D "openvswitch_version $VERSION" \
31 -D "xen_version $XENKERNEL" \
32 -bb openvswitch-$VERSION/xenserver/openvswitch-xen.spec
36 <openvswitch version> is the version number that appears in the
37 name of the Open vSwitch tarball, e.g. 0.90.0.
39 <Xen kernel version> is the version number of the Xen kernel,
40 e.g. 2.6.32.12-0.7.1.xs5.6.100.307.170586xen. This version number
41 appears as the name of a directory in /lib/modules inside the VM.
42 It always ends in "xen".
44 Two RPMs will be output into /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386, whose names
45 begin with "openvswitch" and "openvswitch-debuginfo".
47 Installing Open vSwitch for XenServer
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50 To install Open vSwitch on a XenServer host, or to upgrade to a newer
51 version, copy the "openvswitch" RPM to that host with "scp", then install
52 it with "rpm -U", e.g.:
54 scp openvswitch-$VERSION-1.i386.rpm root@<host>:
55 (At this point you will have to enter <host>'s root password.)
57 (At this point you will have to enter <host>'s root password again.)
58 rpm -U openvswitch-$VERSION-1.i386.rpm
60 To uninstall Open vSwitch from a XenServer host, remove the package:
63 (At this point you will have to enter <host>'s root password again.)
66 After installing or uninstalling Open vSwitch, the XenServer should be
67 rebooted as soon as possible.
72 Please report problems to bugs@openvswitch.org.