[Netkit.users] installing Open vSwitch in Netkit

[Julien Iguchi-Cartigny]

On 09/09/2010 12:02 AM, Ashish Agarwal wrote:
> Ah.. thanks. I also realized a potentially easier way to do all this. I
> simply compiled a kernel using the Makefile provided by Netkit. This
> generates the files I need in:
> 
> $NETKIT_HOME/kernel/modules/lib/modules/2.6.26.5-netkit-K2.8/build
> 
> and I don't have to apply the patches myself. However, my machines crash on
> boot up with this kernel. I guess that's a new thread.

You mean netkit + open vswitch patches or just the kernel compiled with
the Makefile.devel from kernel/ directory ?

BTW, did you see that open vswitch has a user space implementation, less
efficient but which should be OK for teaching ?

I'm very interested by using open vswitch in netkit. Please keep posting
news about it...

Cheers,

Julien.

 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Massimo Rimondini
> <rimondin at dia.uniroma3.it>wrote:
> 
>>  Dear Ashish,
>>
>> I meant a vanilla kernel, which is the clean package provided on the
>> official web site:
>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.26.5.tar.bz2
>> This is where the Netkit kernel actually starts from.
>>
>> Debian packages for kernel headers sometimes contain customizations and may
>> be restricted to specific version numbers, as you have noticed.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Massimo.
>>
>>
>> On 09/08/2010 08:55 PM, Ashish Agarwal wrote:
>>
>> I posted to the debian-users list, and apparently there is no kernel with
>> version 2.6.26.5. Indeed, this is apparently not even the versioning scheme
>> used by Debian. So I'm confused. Can someone please tell me exactly where to
>> get the necessary header files? Thank you.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Ashish Agarwal <agarwal1975 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> ~# apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.26.5
>>> Reading package lists... Done
>>> Building dependency tree
>>> Reading state information... Done
>>> E: Couldn't find package linux-headers-2.6.26.5
>>>
>>>  Which package do I need?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 3:58 AM, Massimo Rimondini <
>>> rimondin at dia.uniroma3.it> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear Ashish,
>>>>
>>>> indeed, kernel headers are not distributed with Netkit.
>>>> However, you can obtain them by getting a vanilla kernel package with
>>>> matching version number (2.6.26.5) and by applying the patches from the
>>>> applicable directory of the Netkit kernel package.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Massimo.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> From: netkit.users-bounces at list.dia.uniroma3.it
>>>> [mailto:netkit.users-bounces at list.dia.uniroma3.it] On Behalf Of Ashish
>>>> Agarwal
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 10:00 PM
>>>> To: Users of the Netkit Network Emulation System
>>>> Subject: Re: [Netkit.users] installing Open vSwitch in Netkit
>>>>
>>>> To clarify, uname -r on my netkit machine gives 2.6.26.5-netkit-K2.8.
>>>> Thus,
>>>> I'm assuming that the standard linux headers are not what I need.
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Ashish Agarwal <agarwal1975 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> I am trying to install Open vSwitch [1] into a Netkit image. Their build
>>>> script requires me to specify the path to the kernel build directory,
>>>> usually /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build. However, there is no such
>>>> directory
>>>> in the images distributed by Netkit. Does anyone know how I can get these
>>>> files? Thank you.
>>>>
>>>> [1] http://openvswitch.org/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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