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List:       libvir-list
Subject:    Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] Basic support for VDE networking
From:       Justin Clift <jclift () redhat ! com>
Date:       2011-01-19 7:55:54
Message-ID: 79C65FA4-73B5-429F-B017-31CD9D7D92F1 () redhat ! com
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On 13/01/2011, at 10:35 PM, Renzo Davoli wrote:
> > That's potentially interesting from the OSX point of view as well.
> > 
> > The VDE website (wiki) has conflicting info on it, but mentions in the
> > notes for its System Requirements that it works on OSX.
> 
> We do not release VDE binaries for MacOSX (our team maintains the packets
> only for Debian) but the source code can be compiled on MacOSX.  
> We do have MacOSX users of VDE (and FreeBSD, NetBSD, too).
> We do not test the source distribution on MacOSX, so if you'll run into
> some issue on the latest versions of OSX, let us know. We'll be glad to
> update the code to satisfy all possible VDE users.

Just as a data point, VDE 2.3.1 is now officially included in the Homebrew packaging \
system for OSX.  Well, as of two days ago.  (Homebrew is a popular packaging system \
for OSX)

It means that to install vde, OSX Homebrew users can now just go:

 $ brew install vde

And voila, it pulls down the source, compiles, and installs.

Note that it doesn't also pull down nor install tuntap, as that package seems to \
require installation into hard coded system locations.

But... vde seems to autodetect if tuntap is installed when it compiles.  So I suspect \
tuntap support would be compiled into vde automatically, if tuntap was installed \
manually first.

Hope that helps at least a bit.

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift


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