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<div><div class="h5">On 09/09/2010 06:22 AM, Julien Iguchi-Cartigny wrote:<br>> You mean netkit + open vswitch patches or just the kernel compiled with<br>> the Makefile.devel from kernel/ directory ?<br></div></div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I meant just the netkit patches, but that is easy enough so my comment was kind of pointless.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
<div><div class="h5">> BTW, did you see that open vswitch has a user space implementation, less<br>> efficient but which should be OK for teaching ?<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
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<div><div class="h5">> I'm very interested by using open vswitch in netkit. Please keep posting<br>> news about it...<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Glad to hear that. I'll definitely post something when/if I get this working.</div>
<div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><div>-Ashish</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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>> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Massimo Rimondini<br>
>> <<a href="mailto:rimondin@dia.uniroma3.it">rimondin@dia.uniroma3.it</a>>wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> Dear Ashish,<br>
>>><br>
>>> I meant a vanilla kernel, which is the clean package provided on the<br>
>>> official web site:<br>
>>> <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.26.5.tar.bz2" target="_blank">http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.26.5.tar.bz2</a><br>
>>> This is where the Netkit kernel actually starts from.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Debian packages for kernel headers sometimes contain customizations and may<br>
>>> be restricted to specific version numbers, as you have noticed.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Regards,<br>
>>> Massimo.<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> On 09/08/2010 08:55 PM, Ashish Agarwal wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> I posted to the debian-users list, and apparently there is no kernel with<br>
>>> version 2.6.26.5. Indeed, this is apparently not even the versioning scheme<br>
>>> used by Debian. So I'm confused. Can someone please tell me exactly where to<br>
>>> get the necessary header files? Thank you.<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Ashish Agarwal <<a href="mailto:agarwal1975@gmail.com">agarwal1975@gmail.com</a>>wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>>> ~# apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.26.5<br>
>>>> Reading package lists... Done<br>
>>>> Building dependency tree<br>
>>>> Reading state information... Done<br>
>>>> E: Couldn't find package linux-headers-2.6.26.5<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Which package do I need?<br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 3:58 AM, Massimo Rimondini <<br>
>>>> <a href="mailto:rimondin@dia.uniroma3.it">rimondin@dia.uniroma3.it</a>> wrote:<br>
>>>><br>
>>>>> Dear Ashish,<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> indeed, kernel headers are not distributed with Netkit.<br>
>>>>> However, you can obtain them by getting a vanilla kernel package with<br>
>>>>> matching version number (2.6.26.5) and by applying the patches from the<br>
>>>>> applicable directory of the Netkit kernel package.<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> Regards,<br>
>>>>> Massimo.<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> From: <a href="mailto:netkit.users-bounces@list.dia.uniroma3.it">netkit.users-bounces@list.dia.uniroma3.it</a><br>
>>>>> [mailto:<a href="mailto:netkit.users-bounces@list.dia.uniroma3.it">netkit.users-bounces@list.dia.uniroma3.it</a>] On Behalf Of Ashish<br>
>>>>> Agarwal<br>
>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 10:00 PM<br>
>>>>> To: Users of the Netkit Network Emulation System<br>
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Netkit.users] installing Open vSwitch in Netkit<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> To clarify, uname -r on my netkit machine gives 2.6.26.5-netkit-K2.8.<br>
>>>>> Thus,<br>
>>>>> I'm assuming that the standard linux headers are not what I need.<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Ashish Agarwal <<a href="mailto:agarwal1975@gmail.com">agarwal1975@gmail.com</a>><br>
>>>>> wrote:<br>
>>>>> I am trying to install Open vSwitch [1] into a Netkit image. Their build<br>
>>>>> script requires me to specify the path to the kernel build directory,<br>
>>>>> usually /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build. However, there is no such<br>
>>>>> directory<br>
>>>>> in the images distributed by Netkit. Does anyone know how I can get these<br>
>>>>> files? Thank you.<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> [1] <a href="http://openvswitch.org/" target="_blank">http://openvswitch.org/</a><br>
>>>>><br>
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