when you run vdeq with multipule sockets; for example vdeq qemu -sock /tmp/sock1.ctl,/tmp/sock2.ctl -hda myimage.img -nics 2 -m 64 it will execute qemu like this: qemu -tun-fd 3,5 -hda myimage.img -nics 2 -mem 64 As the URL explains, qemu changed their interface for -tun-fd to only allow 1 file descriptor, thus the need to supply two -tun-fd arguments to make the above work. The patch is supplied in the URL above to fix this to execute like so: qemu -tun-fd 3 -tun-fd 5 -hda myimage.img -nics 2 -mem 64 I believe this change (on qemu's part) happened in either 7.0 or 7.1. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start 2 instances of vde_switch: vde_switch -sock /tmp/sock1.ctl -tap tap0 -daemon; vde_switch -sock /tmp/sock2.ctl -tap tap1 -daemon 2. run vdeq: vdeq qemu -sock /tmp/sock1.ctl,/tmp/sock2.ctl -hda myimage.img -nics 2 -m 64 3. Recieve error that says: qemu: invalid fd for network interface 0 4. run vdeq with echo to see wtf is going on: vdeq echo -sock /tmp/sock1.ctl,/tmp/sock2.ctl -hda myimage.img -nics 2 -m 64 Actual Results: qemu: invalid fd for network interface 0 qemu exited: vdeq quits Expected Results: run qemu with 2 nics using vdeq from the net-misc/vde package using >=qemu-7.1
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