[ovs-discuss] Installation openvswitch

[Ben Pfaff]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 04:17:16PM +0200, marwen marwen wrote:
> and when I load the module I have this error
> 
> dmesg | tail
> openvswitch_mod: version magic '2.6.18-164.15.1.el5 SMP mod_unload *gcc-4.3*'
> should be '2.6.18-164.15.1.el5 SMP mod_unload *gcc-4.1*'

You must use the same version of GCC to build the OVS kernel module as
was used to build the kernel.  I don't know why rpm and GCC would report
different version numbers.  You will have to figure that out and fix the
problem.