From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLisV-0003Jf-RC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:15:55 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLisU-0003Iq-5e for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:15:55 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44898 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLisT-0003Ik-RV for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:15:53 -0400 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.226]:48745) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KLisT-0003SF-RK for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:15:53 -0400 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id c46so1647661wra.18 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:15:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4887753A.1030002@codemonkey.ws> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:15:22 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] native vde support References: <20080701201131.GA14931@pintsize> <20080719100049.GB30285@networkno.de> In-Reply-To: <20080719100049.GB30285@networkno.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Luca Bigliardi Thiemo Seufer wrote: > Luca Bigliardi wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> The patch I'm proposing here adds native support to Virtual Distributed >> Ethernet using libvdeplug. >> >> A small example: >> - patch latest svn with the attached patch >> - configure qemu to use vde support (disabled by default) using >> "./configure --enable-vde" >> > > When no libvdeplug is available it silently ignores the user selection. > I changed that, removed a hardcoded -lvdeplug in Makefile, and committed > the result. > I've changed it to enable vde support by default if the library is present and changed --enable-vde to --disable-vde. This is how we use other external libraries (like gnutls). Since the user has to explicitly ask to use libvde, there seems to be no harm in enabling it by default. Regards, Anthony Liguori > Thiemo > > >