On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 6:07 AM, Syed Akbar Mehdi <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am having trouble trying to run ovs-vswitchd in userspace mode. I get the > following behaviour: > > $ sudo ovs-vswitchd unix:/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock --pidfile > Mar 05 > 18:52:54|00001|reconnect|INFO|unix:/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock: > connecting... > Mar 05 > 18:52:54|00002|reconnect|INFO|unix:/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock: > connected > Mar 05 18:52:54|00003|dpif_linux|ERR|Generic Netlink family 'odp_datapath' > does not exist. The Open vSwitch kernel module is probably not loaded. > Mar 05 18:52:54|00004|dpif|WARN|failed to enumerate system datapaths: No > such file or directory > > If I go ahead and try to add a bridge using: > > $ sudo ovs-vsctl add-br br0
If you want to setup a bridge in userspace you need to specify that. In this case: ovs-vscrtl add-br br0 -- set bridge type=netdev > > I get the following output from ovs-vswitchd: > > Mar 05 18:55:46|00005|dpif|WARN|failed to create datapath br0: No such file > or directory > > The version of Open vSwitch I am using is the latest checked out from git. > Also I should add that I am able to run ovs-openflowd in userspace mode. > However I need to use ovs-vswitchd for using QoS queues on my switch's > interfaces. OpenFlow QoS is only supported in the kernel datapath. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
