Installation
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Guide
Indigo Virtual Switch (IVS) is a pure OpenFlow virtual switch designed for high performance and minimal administration. It is built on the Indigo platform, which provides a common core for many physical and virtual switches.
Overview
Prerequisites
Ubuntu 11.10:
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sudo apt-get install libnl3-dev pkg-config python-tz libpcap-dev |
Ubuntu 12.04:
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sudo apt-get install libnl-3-dev libnl-genl-3-dev libnl-route-3-dev pkg-config python-tz libpcap-dev |
Get the
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Code
Directly from Github
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git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/floodlight/ivs.git |
Download .zip file
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curl https://github.com/floodlight/ivs/archive/master.zip > ivs.zip |
Build and Install
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cd ivs make |
The IVS daemon and ivs-ctl utility will be written to
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targets/ivs/build/gcc-local/bin/ivs
targets/ivs-ctl/build/gcc-local/bin/ivs-ctl
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Copy it to the sbin directory
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sudo cp targets/ivs/build/gcc-local/bin/ivs targets/ivs-ctl/build/gcc-local/bin/ivs-ctl /usr/sbin |