aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/network/vde2/README
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'network/vde2/README')
-rw-r--r--network/vde2/README45
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 45 deletions
diff --git a/network/vde2/README b/network/vde2/README
deleted file mode 100644
index d893cc50f0c7..000000000000
--- 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
-