2. Installing vswitchperf¶
The test suite requires Python 3.3 and relies on a number of other packages. These need to be installed for the test suite to function.
Installation of required packages, preparation of Python 3 virtual environment and compilation of OVS, DPDK and QEMU is performed by script systems/build_base_machine.sh. It should be executed under user account, which will be used for vsperf execution.
Please Note: Password-less sudo access must be configured for given user account before script is executed.
Execution of installation script:
$ cd systems
$ ./build_base_machine.sh
Please note: you don’t need to go into any of the systems subdirectories, simply run the top level build_base_machine.sh, your OS will be detected automatically.
Currently supported operating systems are:
- CentOS 7
- Fedora 20
- Fedora 21
- Fedora 22
- Ubuntu 14.04
Script build_base_machine.sh will install all the vsperf dependencies in terms of system packages, Python 3.x and required Python modules. In case of CentOS 7 it will install Python 3.3 from an additional repository provided by Software Collections (a link). Installation script will also use virtualenv to create a vsperf virtual environment, which is isolated from the default Python environment. This environment will reside in a directory called vsperfenv in $HOME.
You will need to activate the virtual environment every time you start a new shell session. Its activation is specific to your OS:
CentOS 7:
$ scl enable python33 bash
$ cd $HOME/vsperfenv
$ source bin/activate
Fedora and Ubuntu:
$ cd $HOME/vsperfenv
$ source bin/activate
2.1. Working Behind a Proxy¶
If you’re behind a proxy, you’ll likely want to configure this before running any of the above. For example:
export http_proxy=proxy.mycompany.com:123 export https_proxy=proxy.mycompany.com:123
Revision: 4e48999bc6956dee6f9134b4ef26f34f578cdd80
Build date: January 21, 2016
