New P4 dev and tutorial VM with Ubuntu 18.04
Change-Id: Iacf2ca8f8467dc91e696ace5ed30412f7869110a
(cherry picked from commit 2b8bcbcd3d0e3e66ee2bc681f0f1dfbb0e2a218f)
diff --git a/tools/dev/p4vm/kernel-update.sh b/tools/dev/p4vm/kernel-update.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+set -xe
+
+# There is a known issue with some kernel versions that affects PTF tests:
+# https://github.com/jafingerhut/p4-guide/tree/master/linux-veth-bug
+
+# Run this script to update the kernel inside the VM.
+
+KERNEL_VER="4.15.0-46-generic"
+
+apt-get update
+apt-get -y --no-install-recommends install \
+ linux-image-${KERNEL_VER} linux-headers-${KERNEL_VER}
+
+apt-mark hold ${KERNEL_VER}
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