Installing Open vSwitch

A collection of guides detailing how to install Open vSwitch in a variety of different environments and using different configurations.

Installation from Source

• Open vSwitch on Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD
  • Obtaining Open vSwitch Sources
  • Build Requirements
  • Installation Requirements
  • Bootstrapping
  • Configuring
  • Building
  • Starting
  • Validating
  • Upgrading
  • Hot Upgrading
  • Reporting Bugs
• Open vSwitch on NetBSD
• Open vSwitch on Windows
  • Build Requirements
  • Install Requirements
  • Bootstrapping
  • Configuring
  • Building
  • Starting
  • Validating
  • Windows Services
  • Windows CI Service
  • TODO
• Open vSwitch on Citrix XenServer
  • Building
  • Build Parameters
  • Installing Open vSwitch for XenServer
  • Open vSwitch Boot Sequence on XenServer
  • Notes
  • Reporting Bugs
• Open vSwitch without Kernel Support
  • Building and Installing
  • Using the Userspace Datapath with ovs-vswitchd
  • Firewall Rules
  • Other Settings
  • Reporting Bugs
• Open vSwitch with DPDK
  • Build requirements
  • Installing
  • Setup
  • Validating
  • Performance Tuning
  • Limitations
  • Reporting Bugs

Installation from Packages

Open vSwitch is packaged on a variety of distributions. The tooling required to build these packages is included in the Open vSwitch tree. The instructions are provided below.

• Distributions packaging Open vSwitch
  • Debian
  • Fedora
  • Red Hat
  • OpenSuSE
• Debian Packaging for Open vSwitch
  • Before You Begin
  • Building Open vSwitch Debian packages
  • Installing .deb Packages
  • Reporting Bugs
• Fedora, RHEL 7.x Packaging for Open vSwitch
  • Build Requirements
  • Bootstraping
  • Configuring
  • Building
  • Installing
  • Reporting Bugs
• RHEL 5.6, 6.x Packaging for Open vSwitch
  • Prerequisites
  • Build Requirements
  • Bootstrapping and Configuring
  • Building
  • Red Hat Network Scripts Integration
  • Reporting Bugs

Upgrades

• OVN Upgrades
  • Release Notes
  • OVS
  • Upgrade ovn-controller
  • Upgrade OVN Databases and ovn-northd
  • Upgrading OVN Integration

Others

• Bash command-line completion scripts
  • ovs-appctl-bashcomp
  • ovs-vsctl-bashcomp
  • Usage
  • Tests
• Open vSwitch Documentation
  • Build Requirements
  • Configuring
  • Building