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Open vSwitch on Gentoo – Setting Up Your First vSwitch

November 25th, 2013 by Ronny
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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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Installing Open vSwitch on Gentoo (Xen Hypervisor)

November 5th, 2013 by Ronny
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The Gentoo ebuild for Open vSwitch does not seem to work with the latest available kernel as of this writing (3.10.7-gentoo-r1). This post is documentation of the process that I performed in order to successfully install Open vSwitch on a Gentoo server running the Xen hypervisor. This guide assumes that you already have a Gentoo environment configured and running with the Xen hypervisor available in portage.

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