[Lxc-users] LXC on Esxi

[David Touzeau]

Le dimanche 15 mai 2011 à 22:02 +0200, Daniel Lezcano a écrit :
> On 05/15/2011 08:27 PM, David Touzeau wrote:
> > Le dimanche 15 mai 2011 à 19:26 +0200, Daniel Lezcano a écrit :
> >
> >> On 05/15/2011 06:19 PM, David Touzeau wrote:
> >>> Dear
> >>>
> >>> is it possible to point LXC container to a virtual interface ?
> >>> I have only one interface 'eth1' and i would like LXC containers using
> >>> "Virtual Interfaces"
> >>> When running the LXC container the network card disapears and server
> >>> network is down.
> >>> I need to reboot the computer in order to retreive the eth1 main
> >>> interface.
> >>>
> >>> I have these IP settings :
> >>> eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:29:AD:40:A7
> >>>             inet adr:192.168.1.64  Bcast:192.168.1.255
> >>> Masque:255.255.255.0
> >>>             adr inet6: fe80::20c:29ff:fead:40a7/64 Scope:Lien
> >>>             UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >>>             RX packets:1155 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >>>             TX packets:615 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >>>             collisions:0 lg file transmission:1000
> >>>             RX bytes:635343 (620.4 KiB)  TX bytes:61524 (60.0 KiB)
> >>>             Interruption:18 Adresse de base:0x2000
> >>>
> >>> eth1:1    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:29:AD:40:A7
> >>>             inet adr:192.168.1.65  Bcast:192.168.1.255
> >>> Masque:255.255.255.0
> >>>             UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >>>             Interruption:18 Adresse de base:0x2000
> >>>
> >>> eth1:2    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:29:AD:40:A7
> >>>             inet adr:192.168.1.66  Bcast:192.168.1.255
> >>> Masque:255.255.255.0
> >>>             UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >>>             Interruption:18 Adresse de base:0x2000
> >>>
> >>> eth1:3    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:29:AD:40:A7
> >>>             inet adr:192.168.1.67  Bcast:192.168.1.255
> >>> Masque:255.255.255.0
> >>>             UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >>>             Interruption:18 Adresse de base:0x200
> >>>
> >>> And this configuration file.
> >>>
> >>> lxc.utsname =vps-1
> >>> lxc.tty = 4
> >>> lxc.pts = 1024
> >> Remove these 4 lines
> >>> lxc.network.type = phys
> >>> lxc.network.flags = up
> >>> lxc.network.link = eth1:3
> >>> lxc.network.flags = up
> >> and replace by:
> >>
> >> lxc.network.type = macvlan
> >> lxc.network.link = eth1
> >> lxc.network.flags = up
> >>
> >> Note the container won't be able to communicate with the host.
> >> Otherwise you can use a veth + bridge configuration described at:
> >>
> >> http://www.nsnam.org/wiki/index.php/HOWTO_Use_Linux_Containers_to_set_up_virtual_networks
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >>     -- Daniel
> >
> > Thanks Daniel
> >
> > So the "phys" is not compliance with "Virtual interfaces" ?
> 
> Hmm, yes. The word "phys" stands for physical as opposed to virtual.
> 
> > When you said : "Note the container won't be able to communicate with
> > the host."
> > is container can communicate with the world ? and is container should be
> > contacted by the world (except the host) ?
> 
> That means you can ping the network from the container but not the host 
> and the host can ping the network but not the container.
> 
> > i have tried using veth+ bridge but it is not compliance when running
> > LXC containers on host virtualized by ESXi
> > Containers can communicate with host but did not communicate with the
> > entire network.
> 
> Oh, yes, I think this problem was already spotted in this mailing list. 
> It is a configuration tweak on ESXi.
> 
>    -- Daniel


Dear

You means "tweak"

Since several hours I did not find any topic on this subject.
There is some topic complain about compliance but without giving any
solution.

Where can i found some "tweak" somewhere in order to fix this ESXi
issue ?

best regards