Re: [uml-user] Using vde/vde_switch with UML

2007-03-02 Thread Gordon Russell
Wierdly I was just looking at the package for the vlan support. There is no documentation on this, but scanning the source code you use the telnet interface to the switch and from there the process is menu driven. Looks like you can have both tagged and untagged. However, there is a comment in the

Re: [uml-user] Using vde/vde_switch with UML

2007-03-02 Thread Mathew Brown
Thanks a lot for your feedback Gordon. Do you have any idea how to use VLAN support with vde_switch and UML? Thanks. On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 11:58:21 +, "Gordon Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I have looked at it myself, but not tried it. In the readme it does > talk about UML, for instance:

Re: [uml-user] Using vde/vde_switch with UML

2007-03-02 Thread Gordon Russell
I have looked at it myself, but not tried it. In the readme it does talk about UML, for instance: "with UML you can: (1) use "-unix /tmp/uml.ctl" for vde-switch (2) use "eth0=daemon,,/tmp/vde.ctl" for UML" Thus it seems to use the daemon interface of ethx= on the kernel command line. O

[uml-user] Using vde/vde_switch with UML

2007-03-02 Thread Mathew Brown
Hi, I just came across vde/vde2 (http://vde.sourceforge.net/) and it claims that "VDE connects together: (1) real GNU-linux boxes (tuntap) (2) virtual machines: UML-User Mode Linux, qemu, bochs, MPS." It was inspired by uml_switch but comes with quite a few more additions including vlan