This document lists various popular distributions packaging Open vSwitch. Open vSwitch is packaged by various distributions for multiple platforms and architectures.
Note
The packaged version available with distributions may not be latest Open vSwitch release.
You can use apt-get or aptitude to install the .deb packages and must
be superuser.
1. Debian and Ubuntu has openvswitch-switch and openvswitch-common
packages that includes the core userspace components of the switch. Extra
packages for documentation, ipsec, pki, VTEP and Python support are also
available. The Open vSwitch kernel datapath is maintained as part of the
upstream kernel available in the distribution.
2. For fast userspace switching, Open vSwitch with DPDK support is
bundled in the package openvswitch-switch-dpdk.
Fedora provides openvswitch, openvswitch-devel, openvswitch-test
and openvswitch-debuginfo rpm packages. You can install openvswitch
package in minimum installation. Use yum or dnf to install the rpm
packages and must be superuser.
RHEL distributes openvswitch rpm package that supports kernel datapath.
DPDK accelerated Open vSwitch can be installed using openvswitch-dpdk
package.
OpenSUSE provides openvswitch, openvswitch-switch rpm packages. Also
openvswitch-dpdk and openvswitch-dpdk-switch can be installed for
Open vSwitch using DPDK accelerated datapath.