From ad43c3565bebada7e5a13288e37542fd940369e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff Dike Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:26:48 -0700 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- arch/um/Kconfig.net | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/um/Kconfig.net') diff --git a/arch/um/Kconfig.net b/arch/um/Kconfig.net index 14a04ebdeae..66e50026ade 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 + 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 -- cgit v1.2.3