Install QEMU, DPDK, and OVS on Ubuntu

Log in to the KVM host CLI.

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

Install dpdk-2.2.0.

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 

Change

CONFIG_RTE_APP_TEST=y

to

CONFIG_RTE_APP_TEST=n

Change

CONFIG_RTE_BUILD_COMBINE_LIBS=n

to

CONFIG_RTE_BUILD_COMBINE_LIBS=y

Execute the following command:

vi GNUmakefile

Change

ROOTDIRS-y := lib drivers app

to

ROOTDIRS-y := lib drivers

Execute the following command:

make install T=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc

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