Re: [Xen-API] XCP 1.1 DDK for OVS Build

[brooks@xxxxxxxxxxx]

On Wed, 25 Jan 2012, Ben Pfaff wrote:

> brooks@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> > I was able to hobble together an XCP 1.1 DDK VM based on the 5.6 SP2
> > DDK VM image.  Updating that VM to use the XCP 1.1 kernel wasn't too
> > difficult and once I got that completed recompiling OVS was easy.
> > What was worse was finding out that you guys bundled the OVS kernel
> > module into the kernel RPM itself.  So to get OVS 1.3 installed I had
> > to rip out the OVS code from the XCP 1.1 kernel.  The nice thing is
> > that I now have an XCP 1.1 DDK VM that can be used to update the
> > kernel, drivers, etc.  And I also have the ability to easily update
> > OVS if needed, now that it's kernel module component is built as a
> > separate RPM.
> It doesn't make sense that you had to rip anything out.  The OVS
> RPMs should override the modules shipped with XenServer.  We rely
> on this routinely at Nicira.
Thank you.  Honestly, I didn't try installing the 1.3 RPMs over the kernel 
installed OVS modules.  Once I determined that Citrix bundled the module 
with the kernel RPM I didn't think the OVS kernel module RPM would 
replace/remove (it doesn't) or override them.  It just seemed safer to 
remove it from the kernel altogether.  I'll rebuild against the unmodified 
kernel and give it a try.
We should add a note about this to the BUILD document.

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