CONFIG_UML_NET_VDE is not available for thedefaultarchitecture x86.
Result is shown for architecture um

VDE transport

modulename: vde.ko

configname: CONFIG_UML_NET_VDE

Linux Kernel Configuration
└─>UML Network Devices
└─>VDE transport
In linux kernel since version 2.6.24 (release Date: 2008-01-24)  
This User-Mode Linux network transport allows one or more running
UMLs on a single host to communicate with each other and also
with the rest of the world using Virtual Distributed Ethernet,
an improved fork of uml_switch.

You must have libvdeplug installed in order to build the vde
transport into UML.

To use this form of networking, you will need to run vde_switch
on the host.

For more information, see <http://wiki.virtualsquare.org/>
That site has a good overview of what VDE is and also examples
of the UML command line to use to enable VDE networking.

If you need UML networking with VDE,
say Y.

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