PACC: Week VII

After finishing my work on the acceleration of the VMs on my host server, with SPICE implementation I continued to work on the problem withconnection of VMs of different hosts

In past days my work was mostly done on an implementation of VDE2(Virtual Distributed Ethernet)

VDE is the Virtual Distributed Ethernet. You can use it to connect virtual machines or linux boxes or any combination of the two. Like a real modern Ethernet network a VDE is composed by switches and cables. Each switch has several sockets where machines can be “plugged-in”.

Tools used for setting up following VDE network are:

• vde_switch - a virtual switch

• dpipe - two-way pipe here used to connect two switches

• vde_plug - connects virtual machine (VM) to a switch

• vde_plug2tap - connect tap device to a switch

• qemu - for running VMs

So, finally I got my switch daemon running, and I recompiled the KVM with VDE switch option enabled. However, I faced soem problems with connection of switch and tap interfaces. I gonna figure out how to do that in correct way, that’s my milestone for next days.