[Lxc-users] Using VMware as a test-bed for hosting lxc containers.

[Fajar A. Nugraha]

On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Peter-Frank Spierenburg
<spierepf at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Anyway, I am having trouble convincing the lxc guests to talk to the network
> outside the box hosting the vm hosting the container.

If you use latest ubuntu it'll work out of the box.

> I've also got iptables configured to do the masquerading for the br0 device:

I usually just let lxc or libvirt create lxcbr0/virbr0, with the
necessary rules. Much simpler that way.


> Finally, one of the lxc containers:
>
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:16:3e:38:88:bb
>           inet addr:192.168.2.1  Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0


> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
> Iface
> 0.0.0.0         192.168.2.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0


And you're wondering why it DOESN't work? seriusly?
Hint: check the ip address on eth0 and the gateway.

-- 
Fajar