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Open vSwitch is a production quality, multilayer virtual switch licensed
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under the open source Apache 2.0 license. It is designed to enable
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massive network automation through programmatic extension, while still
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supporting standard management interfaces (e.g. NetFlow, sFlow, RSPAN,
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ERSPAN, CLI). In addition, it is designed to support distribution
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across multiple physical servers similar to VMware.s vNetwork distributed
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vswitch or Cisco.s Nexus 1000V.
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Open vSwitch can operate both as a soft switch running within the
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hypervisor, and as the control stack for switching silicon. It has been
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ported to multiple virtualization platforms and switching chipsets. It
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is the default switch in the Xen Cloud Platform and also supports Xen,
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XenServer, KVM, and VirtualBox. The bulk of the code is written in
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platform-independent C and is easily ported to other environments.
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NOTE: In order to remain compatible with newer versions of Slackware this
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build script will check for the existence of the Slackware provided
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openvswitch.ko kernel module. If the kernel module already exists
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on the machine then the script will skip installation of the module
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file. Open vSwitch utilities are always installed.
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