Installing Openvswitch 1.10 on Debian Wheezy

Ok. Now that I’m using Debian again it’s time for Openvswitch. Building a .deb pack for openvswitch it’s very easy thanks to the readme files provided by Openvswitch and Nicira.

We’ll need a few packages first (thanks for the gdebi-core tip):

aptitude -y install gcc make automake autoconf debhelper libssl-dev pkg-config python-all python-qt4 python-zopeinterface python-twisted-conch gdebi-core

I’m building the package as a non root user. I’ll create a directory and download OVS 1.10 version. After that I’ll use dpkg-buildpackage to create the debian package.

mkdir openvswitch
cd openvswitch

wget http://openvswitch.org/releases/openvswitch-1.10.0.tar.gz

tar xvfz openvswitch-1.10.0.tar.gz

mv openvswitch-1.10.0.tar.gz openvswitch_1.10.0.orig.tar.gz

cd openvswitch-1.10.0
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc
cd ..

Ok, now we’ll use our root account. Go to the directory where you’ve downloaded the openvswitch tar.gz file. We’ll install some debian packages and build the openvswitch kernel module. We’ll use gdebi to solve dependency problems when installing local deb files.

su
gdebi openvswitch-datapath-source_1.10.0-1_all.deb
module-assistant auto-install openvswitch-datapath // Wait a few minutes for compilation to finish
gdebi openvswitch-common_1.10.0-1_amd64.deb
gdebi openvswitch-switch_1.10.0-1_amd64.deb

Let’s try to run a few OVS commands:

# ovs-vsctl -V
ovs-vsctl (Open vSwitch) 1.10.0
Compiled Jun 15 2013 19:23:15

# ovs-vsctl show
b5e96ffe-9cba-426e-a7e8-9dc2abca15e7
 ovs_version: "1.10.0"

# ovs-vsctl add-br brtest0
# ovs-vsctl show
b5e96ffe-9cba-426e-a7e8-9dc2abca15e7
 Bridge "brtest0"
 Port "brtest0"
 Interface "brtest0"
 type: internal
 ovs_version: "1.10.0"

It looks good. This one was easy….

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