[Bug 253230] Re: qemu-kvm should Build-Depends on libvdeplug2-dev (KVM vde2 support not working)

[Danielinux]

I am replying here because I think this discussion is still adherent to
the topic, and also because I don't mind spamming this bug report. It's
been open for years and lead to nothing.

I am not here to say what is better between ovs, vde or any other
similar tool. The super-partes role of a distribution must be to include
every (popular) solution and this is the real advantage of free/OS.
Ubuntu is just living on a different planet here.

For the sack of completeness, I must say vde has a kernelspace version
as well, but it is less popular since vde is designed to run on other
OSes too. I would be interested to benchmark the two tools anyway.

As a matter of fact, I don't see any counterpart for most of the vde
tools in ovs, in particular most of the time I have to recreate complex
network topologies, integrate emulated channels, use encrypted  tunnels,
connect local/remote real/virtual machines with maximum flexibility.

OVS is a VDE competitor as well as OpenVPN is, from my point of view.
VDE is just a "broader" tool, and for me (and several other people) it
is just nice to use the native integration with qemu and kvm, even if
workarounds like bridging a kvm tap or even "capturing" it with vde_pcap
are still possible nowadays with the lame official Ubuntu package.

My point is that OVS for sure does a great job, most likely from what
you say it is even better than VDE for the features they have in common,
but VDE is a set made of a larger number of tools for different
purposes, that's why I am insisting that much here. Sorry if I was too
direct in my previous reply: I am trying to explain why "use X instead
of Y if Y is not supported in the distro" was not an acceptable answer.

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  qemu-kvm should Build-Depends on libvdeplug2-dev (KVM vde2 support not
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