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diff --git a/network/vde2/README b/network/vde2/README deleted file mode 100644 index d893cc50f0..0000000000 --- a/network/vde2/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,45 +0,0 @@ -VDE is an ethernet compliant virtual network which includes tools such -as 'vde_switch' and 'vdeqemu'. VDE switch has several virtual ports -where virtual machines, applications, virtual interfaces and -connectivity tools can be virtually plugged in. VDE qemu works as a -wrapper for running qemu virtual machines that connects transparently -to a specified vde_switch - -VDE is dependant upon TUN/TAP support in the Linux Kernel; this comes -enabled by default with Slackware 12's 'generic' kernel. To enable -TUN/TAP support manually, you must set the following entry in your -kernel's '.config' file and recompile: - CONFIG_TUN=m - -## Configuration -An init script has been provided in /etc/rc.d/rc.vde2 to use with -vde_switch. Edit this script and provide the TAP inteface name as -well as the subnet for your Virtual Switch to use. Do NOT choose -a subnet which is already in use. More than likely, the default -values will work fine. - -## VDE + Qemu -A common usage for vde_switch is to be able to have emulated OS's -via Qemu behave as if they were actually attached to a Local Network. -To enable this functionality with Qemu, replace any calls to 'qemu' -with the following command: - -vdeqemu -net vde,vlan=0 -net nic,vlan=0,macaddr=AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF - -Note that the 'macaddr' string is optional but can prove to be -quite useful when used in conjuction with a DHCP server (such as -dhcpd or dnsmasq) to assign IP's based upon MAC address. - -Do not forget to include the options which point vdeqemu to your -ISO image to boot along with any other options you may have used -with 'qemu' such as -localtime, -nographic etc. - -## Startup -To have this start upon each boot, add the following lines to -/etc/rc.d/rc.local and make sure rc.vde2 is executable. - - # Start vde_switch - if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.vde2 ]; then - /etc/rc.d/rc.vde2 start - fi - |