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author | Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com> | 2010-03-03 16:54:00 -0800 |
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committer | Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com> | 2010-03-04 10:05:44 -0800 |
commit | 3b12addabb60c1eae0f58942281a388a6bc5d45b (patch) | |
tree | 659f0957c7901f9f958f88edbbd92094c295db99 /INSTALL.Linux | |
parent | 39a559f2a77e78c53f439a904986337b0d6d15cf (diff) |
Update Open vSwitch documentation.
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1 files changed, 24 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL.Linux b/INSTALL.Linux index c0344f23..e25c193c 100644 --- a/INSTALL.Linux +++ b/INSTALL.Linux @@ -155,23 +155,34 @@ Prerequisites section, follow the procedure below to build. To verify that the modules have been loaded, run "/sbin/lsmod" and check that openvswitch_mod is listed. -Configuration -============= +7. Initialize the configuration database using ovsdb-tool, e.g.: -Open vSwitch is configured primarily through a configuration file, -whose name is specified on the ovs-vswitchd command line. Please -refer to ovs-vswitchd(8) and ovs-vswitchd.conf(5) for information on -how to start ovs-vswitchd and the syntax of its configuration file, -respectively. + % ovsdb-tool create /etc/ovs-vswitchd.conf.db vswitchd/vswitch.ovsschema -At runtime, you may make ovs-vswitchd reload its configuration file -and update its configuration accordingly by sending it a SIGHUP -signal. The ovs-appctl utility can also be used to do this: +Startup +======= - % ovs-appctl vswitchd/reload +Before starting ovs-vswitchd itself, you need to start its +configuration database, ovsdb-server. Configure it to use the +database you created during step 7 of installation, above, and to +listen on a Unix domain socket, e.g.: -In the latter case, ovs-appctl will wait for ovs-vswitchd to finish -reloading before it exits. + % ovsdb-server /etc/ovs-vswitchd.conf.db --remote=punix:/var/run/ovsdb-server + +Then start the main Open vSwitch daemon, telling it to connect to the +same Unix domain socket: + + % ovs-vswitchd unix:/var/run/ovsdb-server + +Now you may use ovs-vsctl to set up bridges and other Open vSwitch +features. For example, to create a bridge named br0 and add ports +eth0 and vif1.0 to it: + + % ovs-vsctl add-br br0 + % ovs-vsctl add-port br0 eth0 + % ovs-vsctl add-port br0 vif1.0 + +Please refer to ovs-vsctl(8) for more details. Bug Reporting ------------- |