Installation Guide

Installing the VRS or VRS-G Software 47
• Installing VRS Kernel Module On Ubuntu 12.04
Installing VRS Kernel Module On RHEL
1. Install VRS following the instructions in VRS on RHEL.
2. Enable the EPEL repository:
rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-
8.noarch.rpm
Note: IftheEPELrepositoryinstallfails,checkhttps://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPELforthe
latestepel‐releasepackageversionandlocation.
3. Install dependencies for DKMS:
yum install dkms
yum install kernel-devel
4. Reboot to pick up correct kernel:
reboot
Note: VRSinstallwillfailiftheinstalledversionofkernel‐develisnotthesameasthe
currentlyrunningkernel.
5. Verify that the installed version of kernel-devel is the same as the currently running
kernel:
• To verify which version of kernel-devel is installed:
rpm -qa | grep kernel-devel
• To verify which kernel is currently running:
uname -r
Note: Ifyouareunabletousethelatestkernel,installkernel‐develpackagesforyour
currentlyrunningkernel:
yum install kernel-devel-`uname -r`
6. Do a yum localinstall of the hp-openvswitch-dkms package.
7. Verify that the VRS processes restarted correctly:
# service openvswitch restart
Stopping hp monitor:Killing hpMon (6912) [ OK ]
Stopping vm-monitor:Killing vm-monitor (6926) [ OK ]
Stopping openvswitch: Killing ovs-brcompatd (6903) [ OK ]
Killing ovs-vswitchd (6890) [ OK ]
Killing ovsdb-server (6877) [ OK ]
Removing brcompat module [ OK ]
Removing openvswitch module [ OK ]
Starting openvswitch:Inserting openvswitch module [ OK ]
Inserting brcompat module [ OK ]
Starting ovsdb-server [ OK ]
Configuring Open vSwitch system IDs [ OK ]