VDE with Virtual box

KeyzerSuze · Post by **KeyzerSuze** » 25. Aug 2008, 22:17

Has any one got Virtual Box to talk to vde natively, seems like there is a native attachement for qemu to vde. Looks like I am going to have to create vbox{0,1,2,3} interfaces to attach to virtualbox and then attach these interfaces to a vde switch.

Alex

Post by **Sasquatch** » 25. Aug 2008, 22:22

Could you explain that more please. What do you mean by VDE (ok, Google gives me "VDE - Virtual Distributed Ethernet")? But what do you want to achieve with it?

KeyzerSuze · Post by **KeyzerSuze** » 26. Aug 2008, 04:13

Yep thats the product, I would like to link a couple of Vb machines together on different machinesm hiding the ethernet traffic. QEMU was able to use VDE interfaces directly. I was wondering if it was possible with Virtual Box.

VDE is basically a software ethernet switch

Post by **Sasquatch** » 26. Aug 2008, 13:57

Ah, a cross Host internal network. Well, AFAIK, that's not possible.

KeyzerSuze · Post by **KeyzerSuze** » 1. Sep 2008, 22:19

Sasquatch wrote:Ah, a cross Host internal network. Well, AFAIK, that's not possible.

For Virtual box ?

You can do it qemu + vde2, i just thought thought that because virtualbox was based (I seem to remember reading this somewhere and could be wrong !) qemu it might have the same capabilities

oh well, I will have to do some trickery

Post by **Sasquatch** » 1. Sep 2008, 22:47

You can try to see if it works, I've never heard of it until you mentioned it. And like I stated, as far as I know. And I don't know everything

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Technologov · Post by **Technologov** » 2. Sep 2008, 00:23

Speaking of VDE:
Yes, VirtualBox can be joined into VDE Domains via "Host networking" TAP interfaces.
No, It doesn't support VDE natively.

I also would like to see VBox having a bit more advanced networking, such as PV network, native VDE, configurable DHCP, and libpcap

and maybe integrated bridging...
All of above are just wishes

Nothing more.

-Technologov

KeyzerSuze · Post by **KeyzerSuze** » 10. Sep 2008, 01:11

Technologov wrote:Speaking of VDE:
Yes, VirtualBox can be joined into VDE Domains via "Host networking" TAP interfaces.
No, It doesn't support VDE natively.

I also would like to see VBox having a bit more advanced networking, such as PV network, native VDE, configurable DHCP, and libpcap and maybe integrated bridging...
All of above are just wishes Nothing more.

-Technologov

I am working on a project right now that would benefit from this, I am testing some cluster managemane software and I need a box (virtual) with 2 interfaces and a couple of other boxs to pxe boot, right now I have multple tap devices connected via bridge, if we had vde native I could have them all attached to the cde switch and I wouldn't have to see all the traffic on the bridge

Technologov · Post by **Technologov** » 17. Apr 2010, 22:04

Good news on this topic !

Latest Version of VirtualBox SVN includes native VDE support !

By now, basically all my wishes since 2008 came true:
-PV network - exists -- VirtIO-network
-native VDE - VBox release 3.2
-configurable DHCP -- seems to be possible, but from CLI onlt - section 9.8
-libpcap -- not needed, as it could be used as bridging servce, but replaced by VBoxNetFlt
-maybe integrated bridging... -- replaced by VBoxNetFlt

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-Technologov

dandruczyk · Post by **dandruczyk** » 23. Sep 2011, 17:07

Here's a link to a howto I posted.

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=36492&p=201890#p201890

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