netdev-dpdk: fix mbuf leaks

[cascardo/ovs.git] / INSTALL.XenServer.md

diff --git a/INSTALL.XenServer.md b/INSTALL.XenServer.md
index e4408dd..0c64be3 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL.XenServer.md
+++ b/INSTALL.XenServer.md
@@ -3,9 +3,12 @@ How to Install Open vSwitch on Citrix XenServer
 
 This document describes how to build and install Open vSwitch on a
 Citrix XenServer host.  If you want to install Open vSwitch on a
-generic Linux or BSD host, see [INSTALL](INSTALL.md) instead.
+generic Linux or BSD host, see [INSTALL.md] instead.
+
+Open vSwitch should work with XenServer 5.6.100 and later.  However,
+Open vSwitch requires Python 2.7 or later, so using Open vSwitch with
+XenServer 6.5 or earlier requires installing Python 2.7.
 
-These instructions have been tested with XenServer 5.6 FP1.
 
 Building Open vSwitch for XenServer
 -----------------------------------
@@ -19,8 +22,8 @@ RPMs for Citrix XenServer is the DDK VM available from Citrix.
    ./configure; make dist` in the Git tree.  You cannot run this in
    the DDK VM, because it lacks tools that are necessary to bootstrap
    the Open vSwitch distribution.  Instead, you must run this on a
-   machine that has the tools listed in [INSTALL](INSTALL.md) as
-   prerequisites for building from a Git tree.
+   machine that has the tools listed in [INSTALL.md] as prerequisites
+   for building from a Git tree.
 
 2. Copy the distribution tarball into /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES inside
    the DDK VM.
@@ -80,6 +83,18 @@ where:
     The "xen" flavor is the main running kernel flavor and the "kdump" flavor is
     the crashdump kernel flavor. Commonly, one would specify "xen" here.
 
+For XenServer 6.5 or above, the kernel version naming no longer contains
+KERNEL_FLAVOR.  In fact, only providing the `uname -r` output is enough.
+So, the final "rpmbuild" step changes to:
+
+   ```
+   KERNEL_UNAME=<`uname -r` output>
+   rpmbuild \
+        -D "kenel_uname $KERNEL_UNAME" \
+        -bb xenserver/openvswitch-xen.spec
+   ```
+
+
 Installing Open vSwitch for XenServer
 -------------------------------------
 
@@ -190,3 +205,5 @@ Reporting Bugs
 --------------
 
 Please report problems to bugs@openvswitch.org.
+
+[INSTALL.md]:INSTALL.md