: Install QEMU, DPDK, and OVS on Ubuntu
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Install QEMU, DPDK, and OVS on Ubuntu

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Install QEMU, DPDK, and OVS on Ubuntu

Before you can enable DPDK on OVS, you must install QEMU 2.5.0, DPDK 2.2.0, and OVS 2.5.1. Complete the following procedures to install the components.
  1. Log in to the KVM host CLI.
  2. Install QEMU 2.5.0 by executing the following commands:
    apt-get install build-essential gcc pkg-config glib-2.0 libglib2.0-dev libsdl1.2-dev libaio-dev libcap-dev libattr1-dev libpixman-1-dev apt-get build-dep qemu apt-get install qemu-kvm libvirt-bin wget http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-2.5.0.tar.bz2 tar xjvf qemu-2.5.0.tar.bz2 cd qemu-2.5.0 ./configure make make install
  3. Install dpdk-2.2.0.
    1. Execute the following commands:
      wget http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/snapshot/dpdk-2.2.0.tar.gz tar xzvf dpdk-2.2.0.tar.gz cd dpdk-2.2.0 vi config/common_linuxapp
    2. Change
      CONFIG_RTE_APP_TEST=y
      to
      CONFIG_RTE_APP_TEST=n
    3. Change
      CONFIG_RTE_BUILD_COMBINE_LIBS=n
      to
      CONFIG_RTE_BUILD_COMBINE_LIBS=y
    4. Execute the following command:
      vi GNUmakefile
    5. Change
      ROOTDIRS-y := lib drivers app
      to
      ROOTDIRS-y := lib drivers
    6. Execute the following command:
      make install T=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc
  4. Install OVS 2.5.1 by executing the following commands:
    wget http://openvswitch.org/releases/openvswitch-2.5.1.tar.gz tar xzvf openvswitch-2.5.1.tar.gz cd openvswitch-2.5.1 ./configure –with-dpdk=”/root/dpdk-2.2.0/x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/” make make install

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