The Intel® DPDK Accelerated Open vSwitch (Intel® DPDK vSwitch) is a fork of Open vSwitch, the Open Source multilayer virtual switch found at openvswitch.org.

For more information on the project, check out the Intel® DPDK vSwitch homepage at 01.org.

To get started right away, we recommend that you check out the documentation contained in the docs directory. These files provide an in-depth overview of the components, system requirements and basic operation of Intel(R) DPDK vSwitch. The documents are written in Markdown format, so for best results, view the documentation using a Markdown viewer, or on GitHub.

Intel® DPDK vSwitch has been validated against the following Linux distributions:

• Intel® DPDK 1.6
• Wind River Linux 5.1
• Fedora 16

Additionally, Intel® DPDK vSwitch has been validated on the following processors:

• Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 Family
• Intel® Atom® Processor C2000 Family

Three different utilities are necessary to build Open vSwitch: Intel® DPDK, QEMU and Open vSwitch. Of these, Intel® DPDK must be built first due to dependencies in Intel® DPDK vSwitch.

• DPDK

  Refer to the Intel® DPDK Getting Started Guide for a relevant make target, eg:

  cd $(DPDK_DIR)
  make install T=x86_64-ivshmem-linuxapp-gcc

• Openvswitch

  cd $(OVS_DIR)/openvswitch
  ./boot.sh
  ./configure RTE_SDK=$(DPDK_DIR)
  make

• QEMU

  cd $(OVS_DIR)/qemu
  ./configure --enable-kvm --dpdkdir=$(DPDK_DIR) --target-list=x86_64-softmmu
  make

For further information, please check out the docs directory, or use the mailing list.

Please submit all questions, bugs and patch requests to the official mailing list. For further information on this process, please refer to the CONTRIBUTE file.