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| author | Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> | 2007-10-16 01:26:48 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-10-16 09:43:05 -0700 |
| commit | ad43c3565bebada7e5a13288e37542fd940369e8 (patch) | |
| tree | 0946d7e5fc8f4bfa9ce5932d2cd1a921946e7c86 /arch/um/Kconfig.net | |
| parent | 6d536e4b59f77c34a0e5a414dfa934db373c85c2 (diff) | |
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uml: add VDE networking support
Added vde network backend in uml to introduce native Virtual Distributed
Ethernet support (using libvdeplug).
Signed-off-by: Luca Bigliardi <shammash@artha.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/um/Kconfig.net')
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1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/um/Kconfig.net b/arch/um/Kconfig.net index 14a04ebdeae9..66e50026ade9 100644 --- a/arch/um/Kconfig.net +++ b/arch/um/Kconfig.net @@ -108,6 +108,28 @@ config UML_NET_DAEMON more than one without conflict. If you don't need UML networking, say N. +config UML_NET_VDE + bool "VDE transport" + depends on UML_NET + help + This User-Mode Linux network transport allows one or more running + UMLs on a single host to communicate with each other and also + with the rest of the world using Virtual Distributed Ethernet, + an improved fork of uml_switch. + + You must have libvdeplug installed in order to build the vde + transport into UML. + + To use this form of networking, you will need to run vde_switch + on the host. + + For more information, see <http://wiki.virtualsquare.org/> + That site has a good overview of what VDE is and also examples + of the UML command line to use to enable VDE networking. + + If you need UML networking with VDE, + say Y. + config UML_NET_MCAST bool "Multicast transport" depends on UML_NET |