Open vSwitch on Gentoo – Setting Up Your First vSwitch
In my last post I outlined how to get Open vSwitch installed on Gentoo from source for version 1.11.0 as well as from portage using version 2.0.0. I also described how to associate Open vSwitch with with Xen based virtual machines. This guide will detail how to build your first virtual switch from scratch and create virtual switch ports associated with the virtual switch that persist upon a reboot of the host machine. The virtual ports can then be used with VirtualBox VMs and other generic applications that can make use of them.
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