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

[CDR]

Do a real bridge on the host and use it on both the VM and the
container. I do it all the time.

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Anjali Kulkarni <anjali at juniper.net> wrote:
> Thanks - is there any way to do a private bridge between a VM and a
> container, so that they can communicate? What's the use case of using
> macvlan on a real nic?
>
> Anjali
>
> On 8/13/14 9:35 AM, "Serge Hallyn" <serge.hallyn at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
>>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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