LIBVDEPLUG_P2P(1)

💖 LIBVDEPLUG_P2P 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for libvdeplug_ptp (that's the fancy LIBVDEPLUG_P2P(1) one, from the General Commands Manual, iykyk) and honestly? she's a little icon. she's short, she's sweet, she does exactly one thing and she does it flawlessly. main character energy fr fr. let's get into it ✨

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🎀 NAME 🎀

libvdeplug_ptp — a vdeplug module for point to point connections 🦋

like. it connects two things. directly. no drama, no middlemen, no group chat. just them. 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

libvdeplug_ptp.so

that's it. that's the whole synopsis. she's a shared object and she's thriving 🌸

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🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

so here's the vibe: this module interconnects two vde supporting tools by a point to point communication line. two. just the two of them. not me making it a whole thing 💀

this module of libvdeplug4 can be used in any program supporting vde, like for example:

• vde_plug
• kvm
• qemu
• user-mode-linux
• virtualbox

ngl that's a stacked roster. literally every baddie in the virtualization game shows up to this party 👑

the vde_plug_url syntax of this module is, and I quote (lovingly):

ptp://path_of_the_socket

that's the whole format. ptp:// and then where the socket lives. no cap. 🔥

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🍓 EXAMPLES 🍓

bestie, here's a real one:

ptp:///tmp/sock

(yes that's three slashes, that's not a typo, that's just how she is 🫶)

and here's the genuinely iconic part: the same vde_plug_url can be used at both ends of the connection. both ends!! same string!! symmetric queen!! 💖

the way it works is:

• the first program creates the socket /tmp/sock
• the second program connects to /tmp/sock, when it discovers that the socket already exists

so they just… find each other. 🥹 that's the whole romance. that's the plot. soulmates coded into a filesystem. periodt.

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⭐ NOTICE ⭐

okay so important PSA, don't get it twisted:

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").

same acronym, completely different people. it's giving two girls with the same name in the same class. they are NOT the same. do not @ them. 💀

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• vde_plug(1)

(go read that one too, she's the bestie in the friend group 🧚)

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and that's the whole page!! written for Virtual Distributed Ethernet, dated August 23, 2016 — yes she's been serving this exact look since 2016 and honestly? timeless. ate and left no crumbs 💜✨🌸