Hello World again, Inline response follows.
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Valentin Bud <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello World, > > Since this is my first post on this list I'd like to start it by thanking > you for all the hard work you've put in this useful and beautiful > technology. > > I have just installed openvswitch 1.8 from source on a Debian Squeeze > 6.0.5. I have followed the well documented > procedure available in INSTALL.Linux. Everything worked like a charm. > > The kernel module is now in $OVS_SRC/datapath/linux/openvswitch.ko. I can > load it just fine using insmod. Maybe the question that follows is more > related to Debian rather than OpenvSwitch and I apologize if that's the > case. > > How will the OS know to load openvswitch.ko at reboot. Shouldn't the make > install step install the module in /lib/modules? I think I can copy the > module to > /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-amd64/kernel/net/openvswitch/openvswitch.ko and this > would work. Is this correct? And also copy the brcompat.ko if I need it. > > The INSTALL.Linux mentions that I can build a Debian package, I think that > would install everything where it belongs. Haven't tried that yet to be > perfectly honest. That's the next step. > I have just tried to build the *.deb package but I get the following error: dpkg-source: error: can't build with source format '3.0 (quilt)': no orig.tar file found dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source -b openvswitch gave error exit status 255 Exact steps I have made: # git clone git://openvswitch.org/openvswitch Installed build-essential, python-* dependencies, gcc, autoconf, linux-headers-`uname -r` using apt-get. # cd openvswitch ; ./boot.sh; ./configure --prefix=/usr --localstatedir=/var --with-linux=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build # make ; make install # dpkg-buildpackage Good Will, v
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