Re: [gentoo-user] vde_switch cannot create tap

2010-04-15 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 10:53 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: > bridge allow your vm to connect to the internet directly. the vm will > connect to the dhcp server as your host machine do. > > vde creates a vlan on your host, and your vms connect to that vlan. > and your host machine will act like a gateway to

Re: [gentoo-user] vde_switch cannot create tap

2010-04-14 Thread Xi Shen
BTW, the issue i had have been resolved. the document did not mention that i should add '-d' option to let the vde_switch run in daemon mode. -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/

Re: [gentoo-user] vde_switch cannot create tap

2010-04-14 Thread Xi Shen
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Albert W. Hopkins wrote: > I read this document, and it seems to be doing basically what you get > with libvirt, except libvirt does all that for you (but uses brctl > instead of vde (I'm not sure what the differences are)). > > Anyway it seems like libvirt may be

Re: [gentoo-user] vde_switch cannot create tap

2010-04-14 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 11:57 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: > hi, > > i followed the instructions on > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/KVM_with_VDE to configure my system. > the kvm and tun modules loaded fine. but when i run "vde_switch > --numports 4 --hub --mod 777 --group users --tap tap0", it will not >