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List:       openvswitch-discuss
Subject:    [ovs-discuss] Installing 1.11 on Debian and existing datapath
From:       jesse () nicira ! com (Jesse Gross)
Date:       2013-09-30 16:21:20
Message-ID: CAEP_g=9MdbdUv=nj7UPr5bR4KUYg-Dk9gMM3DxbTjZfNzW8hwQ () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 7:39 AM, kevin parker <kevin.parker092 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>     I have compiled ovs 1.11 and was working fine.
> Now trying to install it through .deb packages which i generated as
> explained in INSTALL.DEBIAN.
>
> But i am not able to install datapath using
>
> m-a a-i openvswitch-datapath
>
> its showing this:
>
> Bad luck, the kernel headers for the target kernel version could
> not be found and you did not specify other valid kernel headers
> to use.
>
> uname -r
> 3.8.0-29-generic
>
> ls -l /usr/src
> linux -> linux-headers-3.8.0-29-generic
> linux-headers-3.8.0-29
> linux-headers-3.8.0-29-generic
> openvswitch-1.11.0
> openvswitch-datapath.tar.bz2
>
> since my default kernel comes with ovs
>
> cat /boot/config-3.8.0-29-generic |grep -i openvswitch
> CONFIG_OPENVSWITCH=m
>
> modprobe openvswitch
>
> modinfo openvswitch
>
> filename:       /lib/modules/3.8.0-29-generic/updates/dkms/openvswitch.ko
> version:        1.11.0
> license:        GPL
> description:    Open vSwitch switching datapath
> srcversion:     6F60612DEDF2D2B5CEF0F76
> depends:
> vermagic:       3.8.0-29-generic SMP mod_unload modversion
>
> Since the default module is 1.11.0,is it possible to make it work with
> generated .deb packages.
>
> When i tried to  do that by enabling
> modprobe openvswitch
>
> and then
> ovs-dpctl dump-flows br0
> shows
>
> ovs-dpctl: opening datapath (No such device)

Everything is working fine. You shouldn't specify 'br0' to ovs-dpctl
in the newest releases.

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