HOWTO: starting many networked qemu images with VDE

[Aaron Kaplan]

Hi!

I thought this might be really useful for many programers from the  
open source community (python, etc.)
who want to contribute but are not so skilled with linux/kernel  
internals.

Since many of the activities for the XO should be network based, I  
decided it would be time to connect
the qemu images with virtual network "pipes". I used VDE and VNC for  
that.
So the idea is that python coders can develop and test network apps  
without having many XOs at their disposal.

Here is how I did it:

   http://olpcaustria.org/mediawiki/index.php/ 
Devserver#how_to_start_many_networked_qemu_instances_with_VDE

As soon as I have more space on my HD I will start many instances and  
people will just be able to use it over the net. Depends of course on  
your bandwidth and latency.
Currently I have instances running VNC: olpcaustria.org:1  ... till :4


Have fun and report bugs please!
a.


PS: Ivan, I was first ;-) But please report on how this works with  
vmware.