How to install and configure KVM and Open vSwitch on Ubuntu or Debian

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Jan 14, 2014

In today’s multi-tenant data centers, virtualization technology is being extended from traditional hypervisor-based server virtualization to network virtualization.In this environment, software-based virtual switches are commonly deployed on servers along with hypervisor, bridging traffic among different virtual machines (VMs). In this tutorial, I am going to demonstrate how to install and configure KVM and Open vSwitch (OVS) on Ubuntu or Debian.

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