Talk:QEMU with Open vSwitch network

Confused about Open vSwitch
Thanks for this article! I'm impressed on how far opensource has come with virtualisation with KVM/QEMU by now and openvswitch for me is the missing puzzle tile.

But I'm also a bit confused since in this article I am told to activate in the kernel but if I have and go on to emerge net-misc/openvswitch it tells me. But it is set...

So what's the right way and why are only kernels up to 4.8 supported by net-misc/openvswitch?

Thanks a lot