Open vSwitch Installation on ProtoGENI hosts

This page describes how to install Open vSwitch (OVS) on a ProtoGENI host running an Ubuntu image. There are two different ways to use OVS within ProtoGENI.

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• Download OVS

   wget http://openvswitch.org/releases/openvswitch-1.7.3.tar.gz
   tar xvfz openvswitch-1.7.3.tar.gz
   cd openvswitch-1.7.3
  

• Follow the instructions at INSTALL.Linux
  • Install the prerequisets:

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

  • Compile and install

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

  • 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
    

  • 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
    

Your host is now ready to run Open vSwitch.