Open vSwitch Installation on ProtoGENI hosts

This page describes how to install Open vSwitch (OVS) on a ProtoGENI host. There are different ways to use OVS within ProtoGENI for example experiments see the OpenFlow OVS tutorial, which use the image created with these instructions that were captured on an Ubuntu 12.04 system:

1. Download OVS

    wget http://openvswitch.org/releases/openvswitch-1.9.3.tar.gz
    tar xvfz openvswitch-1.9.3.tar.gz
    cd openvswitch-1.9.3
   

2. Follow the instructions at INSTALL.Linux file. Install the prerequisets:

   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get -y install pkg-config libssl-dev libc-dev
   

3. Compile and install:

    ./boot.sh
    ./configure
    make
    sudo make install
   

4. Initialize the configuration database using ovsdb-tool

   sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/openvswitch
   sudo ovsdb-tool create /usr/local/etc/openvswitch/conf.db vswitchd/vswitch.ovsschema
   

5. Startup

   sudo ovsdb-server --remote=punix:/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock \
                  --remote=db:Open_vSwitch,manager_options \
                  --private-key=db:SSL,private_key \
                  --certificate=db:SSL,certificate \
                  --bootstrap-ca-cert=db:SSL,ca_cert \
                  --pidfile --detach
   

   sudo ovs-vsctl --no-wait init
   sudo ovs-vswitchd --pidfile --detach
   

6. Your host is now ready to run Open vSwitch.