Slirpvde connects all the units (virtual or real machines) to the network
of the host where slirpvde runs as it were a NAT/Masquerading router.
The default route is the node 2 (10.0.2.2 in the default network
configuration) and DNS is re-mapped in node 3 (10.0.2.3).
Slirpvde runs using standard user privileges (no need for root access):
all the connections are re-generated by slirpvde itself.
IPv4 only. IPv6 is still unsupported (will be supported when slirpvde will be
rewritten using the LWIPv6 network stack).
OPTIONS
-s, --sock, --socket, --vdesock, --unixdirectory
specify the VDE switch directory (default /var/run/vde.ctl).
-p, --pidfilefilename
specify the name of the file which contains the PID of slirpvde.
-g, --groupgroup
specify the UNIX group for the VDE communication socket.
-m, --modmode
specify the octal UNIX permissions for the VDE communication socket.
-d, --daemon
detach from terminal and run slirpvde in background.
-D, --dhcp
turn on the DHCP server for the network autoconfiguration of
all the units connected to the VDE.
-n, --networkaddress
specify the network address (default 10.0.2.0).
-L port:vde_host:vde_hostport
specifyes a port redirection.
All the packet received by the host running slirpvde at port port
will be forwarded to vde_host at port vde_hostport.
-X vde_host[:display.[screen]]i
redirect a X window screen of a virtual machine. Slirpvde gets the first unused X display on the
host running slirpvde and redirects all the requests to vde_host.
display and screen] must be specified when different from :0.0.
-x port:unix_socket_path]
redirect a port of the virtual router (usually 10.0.2.2) to a unix stream socket.
It is used for example to redirect a X display of the hosting computer on the virtual network. e.g. -x6000:/tmp/.X11-unix/X0. (A suitable xhost configuration is needed (e.g. 'xhost local:').
NOTICE
Virtual Distributed Ethernet is not related in any way with
www.vde.com ("Verband der Elektrotechnik, Elektronik und Informationstechnik"
i.e. the German "Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information
Technologies").