On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 10:25:45PM -0700, Dmitri Priimak wrote:
> Please forgive me my stupid question as I am somewhat new to openvswitch.
> 
> Installing ovs from source code, in the INSTALL file I got impression that
> kernel module is optional for operation of the openvswitch, however, if I
> do not load openvswitch kernel module, I can create bridges and ports using
> ovs-vsctl but they do not seem to manifest in the OS. For example, I cannot
> bring up a port and I get messages like "No such device". So, am I
> misunderstanding something. Do I have to have kernel module loaded?

Read INSTALL.userspace.
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