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authorBen Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>2011-04-06 09:15:58 -0700
committerBen Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>2011-04-06 09:51:48 -0700
commitc9d3af4e88444768eaeb2939f1e001e239fe8660 (patch)
treec7d68ad52e9b9bf0c4b8e6120f0a3259a5155a7f /INSTALL.Linux
parent773cd53821425ae2380fb741c85172a0ff8cb478 (diff)
Update top-level documentation to bring it up to date with latest features.
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL.Linux')
-rw-r--r--INSTALL.Linux17
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL.Linux b/INSTALL.Linux
index 0d56da65..0872922d 100644
--- a/INSTALL.Linux
+++ b/INSTALL.Linux
@@ -54,6 +54,9 @@ INSTALL.userspace for more information.
be compiled with IPv6 support (CONFIG_IPV6). This allows for
special handling (such as path MTU discovery) of IPv6 packets.
+ To configure HTB or HFSC quality of service with Open vSwitch,
+ you must enable the respective configuration options.
+
To use Open vSwitch support for TAP devices, you must enable
CONFIG_TUN.
@@ -67,8 +70,8 @@ INSTALL.userspace for more information.
infrastructure.
If you are working from a Git tree or snapshot (instead of from a
-distribution tarball), or if you modify the Open vSwitch build system,
-you will also need the following software:
+distribution tarball), or if you modify the Open vSwitch build system
+or the database schema, you will also need the following software:
- Autoconf version 2.64 or later.
@@ -81,12 +84,22 @@ following:
- pyuic4 from PyQt4 (http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk).
+To run the unit tests, you also need:
+
+ - Perl. Version 5.10.1 is known to work. Earlier versions should
+ also work.
+
If you modify the vswitchd database schema, then the E-R diagram in
the ovs-vswitchd.conf.db(5) manpage will be updated properly only if
you have the following:
- "dot" from graphviz (http://www.graphviz.org/).
+ - Perl. Version 5.10.1 is known to work. Earlier versions should
+ also work.
+
+ - Python 2.x, for x >= 4.
+
Installation Requirements
-------------------------