[Netkit.users] installing Open vSwitch in Netkit

Ashish Agarwal agarwal1975 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 13 23:48:38 CEST 2010


See inline responses below:


> On 09/09/2010 06:22 AM, Julien Iguchi-Cartigny wrote:
> > You mean netkit + open vswitch patches or just the kernel compiled with
> > the Makefile.devel from kernel/ directory ?
>

I meant just the netkit patches, but that is easy enough so my comment was
kind of pointless.


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

The main reason I'm trying to install Open vSwitch is to have a higher
performance virtual switch. We currently use the OpenFlow reference
implementation, but version 1.0.0 does not come with a kernel-based switch.


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

Glad to hear that. I'll definitely post something when/if I get this
working.


-Ashish



 >>
> >> 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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