[Lxc-users] Fwd: Container inside an ESX VM

[Mauras Olivier]

Thanks, help is really appreciated.


Cheers,
Olivier

On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Geordy Korte <gkorte at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thought about it some more and i think it might be an advanced esx feature
> that restricts this. Basically a couple of adv features block spoofing and
> mac changes on a vhost. I will try to find the specific command you need to
> run on an esx host tomorrow, or maybee someone can google it. I am 100% sure
> that it's not a bug in either esx or lxc and no modifications are needed on
> the lxc side.
>
> Mvg
>
> Geordy Korte
> (Sent via iphone so shorter then normal)
>
>
> On 16 apr. 2011, at 23:51, Ulli Horlacher <framstag at rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
> wrote:
>
> > On Sat 2011-04-16 (22:24), Geordy Korte wrote:
> >
> >> Due to the architecter of esx it will only permit 1 mac per vswitch
> port.
> >> If they would allow more then security would be comprimised. Solution
> >> would be to have each lxc bound to a vnic.
> >
> > I have had the same problem with lxc on ESX last week. I also thought
> > using separate vnics for each container would be a solution, but lxc has
> > a bug not giving back the interface original name to the host: eg, eth1
> > becomes dev3 and you cannot rename it back.
> >
> > The result of this bug is: you can start a container only once, then you
> > have to reboot the host. This is a complete show stopper.
> >
> >
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