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authorChristopher Walker <kris240376@gmail.com>2011-03-07 12:08:14 -0300
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+Open vSwitch is a production quality, multilayer virtual switch licensed
+under the open source Apache 2.0 license. It is designed to enable
+massive network automation through programmatic extension, while still
+supporting standard management interfaces (e.g. NetFlow, sFlow, RSPAN,
+ERSPAN, CLI). In addition, it is designed to support distribution
+across multiple physical servers similar to VMware.s vNetwork distributed
+vswitch or Cisco.s Nexus 1000V.
+
+Open vSwitch can operate both as a soft switch running within the
+hypervisor, and as the control stack for switching silicon. It has been
+ported to multiple virtualization platforms and switching chipsets. It
+is the default switch in the Xen Cloud Platform and also supports Xen,
+XenServer, KVM, and VirtualBox. The bulk of the code is written in
+platform-independent C and is easily ported to other environments.
+
+This package will build kernel modules that will be uses as replacements
+for the bridge modules included with the stock Linux kernel. Open
+vSwitch includes a kernel module if you wish to use the standard Linux
+bridge utils to manage it.