Installing Open vSwitch

A collection of guides detailing how to install Open vSwitch in a variety of different environments and using different configurations.

Installation from Source

• OVN on Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD
  • Obtaining OVN Sources
  • Build Requirements
  • Installation Requirements
  • Bootstrapping
  • Configuring
  • Building
  • Starting
  • Validating
  • Reporting Bugs
• OVN on Windows
  • TODO

Installation from Packages

Open vSwitch is packaged on a variety of distributions. The tooling required to build these packages is included in the Open vSwitch tree. The instructions are provided below.

• Distributions packaging Open vSwitch
  • Debian
  • Fedora
  • OpenSuSE
• Debian Packaging for OVN
• Fedora, RHEL 7.x Packaging for OVN
  • Build Requirements
  • Bootstraping
  • Configuring
  • Building
  • Installing
  • Reporting Bugs
• RHEL 5.6, 6.x Packaging for Open vSwitch
  • Prerequisites
  • Build Requirements
  • Bootstrapping and Configuring
  • Building
  • Red Hat Network Scripts Integration
  • Reporting Bugs

Upgrades

• OVN Upgrades
  • Release Notes
  • OVS
  • Upgrade ovn-controller
  • Upgrade OVN Databases and ovn-northd
  • Upgrading OVN Integration

Others

• Open vSwitch Documentation
  • Build Requirements
  • Configuring
  • Building