5 Supported Operating Systems
6 ---------------------------
16 The vSwitch must support Open Flow 1.3 or greater.
18 * OVS (built from source).
19 * OVS with DPDK (built from source).
28 A simple VNF that forwards traffic through a VM, using:
34 The VM image can be downloaded from:
35 http://artifacts.opnfv.org/vswitchperf/vloop-vnf-ubuntu-14.04_20151216.qcow2
39 The test suite requires Python 3.3 and relies on a number of other
40 packages. These need to be installed for the test suite to function.
42 Installation of required packages, preparation of Python 3 virtual
43 environment and compilation of OVS, DPDK and QEMU is performed by
44 script **systems/build_base_machine.sh**. It should be executed under
45 user account, which will be used for vsperf execution.
47 **Please Note**: Password-less sudo access must be configured for given
48 user account before script is executed.
50 Execution of installation script:
55 $ ./build_base_machine.sh
57 **Please Note**: you don't need to go into any of the systems subdirectories,
58 simply run the top level **build_base_machine.sh**, your OS will be detected
61 Script **build_base_machine.sh** will install all the vsperf dependencies
62 in terms of system packages, Python 3.x and required Python modules.
63 In case of CentOS 7 it will install Python 3.3 from an additional repository
64 provided by Software Collections (`a link`_). Installation script will also
65 use `virtualenv`_ to create a vsperf virtual environment, which is isolated
66 from the default Python environment. This environment will reside
67 in a directory called **vsperfenv** in $HOME.
69 You will need to activate the virtual environment every time you start a
70 new shell session. Its activation is specific to your OS:
77 $ scl enable python33 bash
89 Working Behind a Proxy
90 ======================
92 If you're behind a proxy, you'll likely want to configure this before
93 running any of the above. For example:
97 export http_proxy=proxy.mycompany.com:123
98 export https_proxy=proxy.mycompany.com:123
100 .. _a link: http://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/python33/
101 .. _virtualenv: https://virtualenv.readthedocs.org/en/latest/