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List:       openvswitch-discuss
Subject:    [ovs-discuss] Create GRE tunnel failed, vswitch complains no kernel module
From:       frank () cloud ! com (frank)
Date:       2010-12-10 2:23:05
Message-ID: 4D018F09.7070208 () cloud ! com
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  Thanks Ben. It worked!
just notice I should do

xe-switch-network-backend openvswitch
reboot

On 12/09/2010 04:19 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 04:08:43PM -0800, frank wrote:
>> So, openvswitch_mod.ko is a mandatory requirement for creating GRE?
> Yes.  It is mandatory for using Open vSwitch at all.
>
>> The OVS GRE module is not required?
> Open vSwitch does not have any separate GRE module.
>
>> By "rpm -ql openvswitch", I can see there is no .ko in RPM. so does
>> this imply we can't
>> create GRE through default vswitch in XenServer5.6, instead, we have
>> to build vswitch from source?
> The Open vSwitch module on XenServer is distributed with the XenServer
> kernel to the best of my knowledge.  It is not part of the openvswitch
> package there, it is part of the kernel package.  It should be with the
> rest of the kernel modules.


-- 
Frank Zhang
Cloud.com INC



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