privileges. If libcap-ng is installed, then Open vSwitch will
automatically build with support for it.
- - Python 2.7.
+ - Python 2.7. You must also have the Python six library.
On Linux, you may choose to compile the kernel module that comes with
the Open vSwitch distribution or to use the kernel module built into
- clang, version 3.4 or later
+ - flake8 (for Python code)
+
Also, you may find the ovs-dev script found in utilities/ovs-dev.py useful.
Installation Requirements
from iproute2 (part of all major distributions and available at
http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Net:Iproute2).
+ - Python 2.7. You must also have the Python six library.
+
On Linux you should ensure that /dev/urandom exists. To support TAP
devices, you must also ensure that /dev/net/tun exists.