LIBVDEPLUG_VDE(1)

💖 LIBVDEPLUG_VDE — bestie edition 💖

okay so you're reading the manual page for LIBVDEPLUG_VDE(1), which lives in the General Commands Manual section, and honestly? it's a short one but it's iconic. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

libvdeplug_vde — the vdeplug module for vde_switch based networks. that's the whole vibe, that's the job. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

libvdeplug_vde.so

that's it. that's the whole thing. no args, no flags, just a .so living its best life. 🦋

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so this is the standard vdeplug module for vde_switch based networks. like, the default-default. the main character. 👑

it's a module of libvdeplug4, which means literally any program that supports vde can use it — we're talking vde_plug, kvm, qemu, user-mode-linux and virtualbox. all of them. slay. ✨

the vde_plug_url syntax of this module goes like this:

vde://path_of_the_switch[[port#_or_portgroup]]

and here's the part that's lowkey important: this is the default module for libvdeplug. so any string that doesn't contain '://' (like, say, a plain old path) gets processed by libvdeplug_vde. for example, /tmp/vde.ctl is equivalent to vde:///tmp/vde.ctl. no cap. 🧚

✨ EXAMPLES ✨

• vde:///tmp/myswitch — this vde_plug_url points at the vde_switch identified by the directory /tmp/vde_switch. 🎀 and bestie, please note: there are three slashes '///', because 'vde://' is the prefix and the third slash is the first character of the absolute path. three slashes. not two. count them. 🙈
• vde://thisswitch[3] — this one means port #3 of the switch whose identifier is thisswitch, living in the current directory. 💜
• vde:///var/run/vde.ctl[privatelan] — this is what you use to create a connection to the portgroup privatelan of the switch /var/run/vde.ctl. 🔥

✨ NOTICE ✨

Virtual Distributed Ethernet is not related in any way with www.vde.com — that's the "Verband der Elektrotechnik, Elektronik und Informationstechnik", aka the German "Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies". different vde, bestie. don't @ them. 💀

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• vde_switch(1)
• vde_plug(1)

and that's the whole page! 🌸 this one came from Virtual Distributed Ethernet, dated August 23, 2016 — go forth and plug your vde, you absolute icon. mwah. 💖🎀🦋