[lxc-users] Cannot create a macvlan private bridge on lx

[Serge Hallyn]

You can't do macvlan on a bridge.  It has to be done on an real
physical nic.

Quoting Anjali Kulkarni (anjali at juniper.net):
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We are trying to have a VM and a container ping each other via a private
> bridge (not going through host) via macvlan interface. A bridge, lxcbr1 is
> already created and contains a link from VM, and we want to add container
> to it as well. 
> To do that, on adding the foll. config to a container, the error shown
> below is seen, and tips about how to fix this issue?
> 
> Config:
> lxc.network.type = macvlan
> lxc.network.macvlan.mode = bridge
> lxc.network.flags = down
> lxc.network.name = eth0
> lxc.network.link = lxcbr1
> lxc.network.ipv4 = 1.1.1.1/24
> 
> 
> Error seen:
> lxc-start: failed to move 'lxcbr1' to the container : Invalid argument
> lxc-start: failed to create the configured network
> lxc-start: failed to spawn 'test'
> lxc-start: The container failed to start.
> lxc-start: Additional information can be obtained by setting the --logfile
> and --log-priority options.
> 
> Thanks
> Anjali
> 
> 
> 
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