contiv/netplugin throws error on CentOS 7.4

[unclejack]

contiv/netplugin fails to run on CentOS 7.4. modprobe throws an error when it starts.

modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'openvswitch': Exec format error

This can be fixed by replacing modprobe and insmod.

[unclejack]

This has been fixed by PR #977.

[basvandenbrink]

I am also experiencing this issue on CentOS and the pull request has been reverted by #998. Could you please reopen this issue?

[dseevr]

@basvandenbrink thanks for the reminder about this issue. we are actually working on this right now

[basvandenbrink]

That's great! In the meanwhile, I worked around it by manually executing the following on each node before connecting:

sudo modprobe openvswitch