Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] Basic support for VDE networking
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