Installation Instructions
Install dependencies:
Ubuntu 11.10:
sudo apt-get install libnl3-dev pkg-config python-tz libpcap-dev
Ubuntu 12.04:
sudo apt-get install libnl-3-dev libnl-genl-3-dev libnl-route-3-dev pkg-config python-tz libpcap-dev
Get the source code
Directly from Github
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/floodlight/ivs.git
Download .zip file
curl https://github.com/floodlight/ivs/archive/master.zip > ivs.zip
Build
cd ivs make
The IVS daemon and ivs-ctl utility will be written to
targets/ivs/build/gcc-local/bin/ivs targets/ivs-ctl/build/gcc-local/bin/ivs-ctl