# vde を Homebrew, apt でインストール vde のインストール経路、実行ファイル、メタデータ、AI エージェント向けセキュリティノートを確認します。 ## インストール ```sh sudo av install brew:vde ``` 追加のインストールコマンド: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install vde ``` 証拠: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - Debian apt (92%): ```sh sudo apt install vde-switch ``` 証拠: Debian stable package indexes: vde-switch from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz ## パッケージ情報 - **パッケージキー:** brew:vde - **パッケージマネージャ:** Homebrew - **バージョン:** 2.3.3 - **ソース概要:** Ethernet compliant virtual network - **ホームページ:** - **リポジトリ:** - **生成日時:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00 ## 実行可能ファイル - dpipe (エイリアス) - unixcmd (エイリアス) - vde_autolink (エイリアス) - vde_over_ns (エイリアス) - vde_pcapplug (エイリアス) - vde_plug (エイリアス) - vde_plug2tap (エイリアス) - vde_router (エイリアス) - vde_switch (エイリアス) - vdecmd (エイリアス) - vdeterm (エイリアス) - wirefilter (エイリアス) ## インストール挙動 - Bottle: 利用不可 ## バージョンと鮮度 - ページ生成日: 2026-08-03 - マネージャ版: 2.3.3 ## プロジェクトの歴史と使われ方 VDE, Virtual Distributed Ethernet, is a suite for building Ethernet-like virtual networks out of software switches, plugs, cables, tunnels, and TAP connections. It belongs to the VirtualSquare research-and-tooling tradition around virtual machines, emulators, and distributed network labs. The package is old-school virtualization infrastructure: it predates today's container-networking defaults and gives users explicit virtual switches and virtual cables that can connect QEMU, User Mode Linux, Bochs, MPS machines, real Linux hosts, and remote switches. ### プロジェクトの歴史 The vde-2 README credits Renzo Davoli for VDEv2 work from 2003 through 2006 and notes that it was based long ago on uml-router work by Yon Uriarte and Jeff Dike from 2002. A 2005 TridentCom paper by Davoli describes VDE as an Ethernet-compliant, distributed, software virtual network intended to connect emulators, virtual machines, real operating systems, and other tools. The historical hosting path also shows its age. SourceForge records VDE as a Virtual Distributed Ethernet project and states that the project moved to GitHub at virtualsquare/vde-2, with new issues and patches directed there. The current GitHub repository was created on 2016-02-22, preserving the vde-2 codebase under the VirtualSquare organization. ### 採用の歴史 VDE's adoption was strongest in virtualization and network-emulation niches. The manpage documents end nodes including real Linux boxes through TUN/TAP, Bochs, QEMU, and MPS virtual machines; Oracle's VirtualBox manual describes VDE networking as an optional source-code feature and credits Renzo Davoli at the University of Bologna. The 2005 paper framed VDE as a general virtual networking layer rather than a single-emulator feature. That distinction is the adoption hook: users could build virtual Ethernet topologies across different hosts and virtualization systems instead of accepting the networking model bundled with one emulator. ### 使われ方 A typical VDE setup runs vde_switch, connects local or remote endpoints with vde_plug/vde cables, and optionally attaches a host TAP interface. The vde_switch manpage describes management through console or a Unix-socket terminal, support for VLAN-like behavior, Fast Spanning Tree work, and daemon mode. VDE is used for heterogeneous VM labs, tunnels, mobility experiments, and overlay networks where Ethernet frames should move through a user-controlled virtual topology. The README emphasizes that units connected to VDE see each other as if they were on a real Ethernet. ### パッケージ好きにとっての重要性 VDE is significant because it exposes virtual networking as composable Unix tools rather than a hidden hypervisor setting. For package users building labs, that means repeatable topologies made of processes and sockets: switches, plugs, TAPs, packet captures, and filters. It is also a good example of research software that became distribution software. The same package can be read as a 2000s virtualization artifact, a QEMU-era networking tool, and a still-useful way to build small Layer 2 experiments without deploying a larger SDN stack. ### タイムライン - 2002: The vde-2 README credits earlier uml-router work by Yon Uriarte and Jeff Dike. - 2003-2006: The vde-2 README credits Renzo Davoli's VDEv2 work across these years. - 2005: Davoli's Virtual Distributed Ethernet paper described VDE as Ethernet-compliant, distributed, and useful for virtual machines and real systems. - 2016-02-22: The virtualsquare/vde-2 GitHub repository was created. - 2022-05-02: GitHub release v2.3.3 was published. ### Related projects - VDE is related to QEMU, User Mode Linux, Bochs, MPS, VirtualBox VDE networking, TUN/TAP tooling, and later virtual-switch systems such as Open vSwitch. In the VirtualSquare family, vdeplug4 is a later related project that rethinks VDE plug connections. ### ソース - - - - - - - - - ## セキュリティノート broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. - **Geiger リスク:** blue / 中 - broad file, network, media, or database tool signal ## 他のパッケージマネージャ記録 - Debian apt - vde-switch - 2.3.2+r586-11: installed executable or alias match | Debian stable package indexes: vde-switch from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Virtual Distributed Ethernet. | http://vde.sourceforge.net - Ubuntu apt - vde-switch - 2.3.2+r586-10: installed executable or alias match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: vde-switch from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Virtual Distributed Ethernet. | http://vde.sourceforge.net ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/vde.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/vde.yml) ## ソース - pkg.so package database - Geiger risk classifier - curated package history - pkgdb category and tag curation - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph