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. To install Python 3.3 in CentOS 7, an additional repository, Software Collections (see https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/python33) should be enabled.

Installation of required packages and preparation of Python 3 virtual environment is performed by 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.

You will need to activate the virtual environment every time you start a new shell session. To activate, simple run:

scl enable python33 bash
cd $HOME/vsperfenv
source bin/activate

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3. 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

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Build date: December 16, 2015