[Lxc-users] LXC on ESXi (help)

[Ulli Horlacher]

On Tue 2011-05-17 (17:18), David Touzeau wrote:

> the host is a Virtual Machine stored on ESXi 4.0
> 
> The container can ping the host, the host can ping the container.
> Issue is others computers network. cannot ping the container and the
> container cannot ping the network.

I have had the same problems.

My solution is: "lxc.network.type = phys"

Every container has its own (pseudo) physical ethernet interface, which
indeed is a ESX virtual interface, but Linux (LXC) sees a real ethernet
interface, therefore: lxc.network.type = phys

I have created 10 more ethernet interface via vSphere. This costs
virtually nothing :-)

root at zoo:/lxc# fpg network *cfg

bunny.cfg:
lxc.network.type = phys
lxc.network.link  = eth4
lxc.network.name  = eth4
lxc.network.flags = up
lxc.network.mtu = 1500
lxc.network.ipv4 = 129.69.8.7/24

flupp.cfg:
lxc.network.type = phys
lxc.network.link = eth1
lxc.network.name = eth1
lxc.network.flags = up
lxc.network.mtu = 1500
lxc.network.ipv4 = 129.69.1.219/24


vmtest1.cfg:
lxc.network.type = phys
lxc.network.link = eth2
lxc.network.name = eth2
lxc.network.flags = up
lxc.network.mtu = 1500
lxc.network.ipv4 = 129.69.1.42/24



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