[lxc-users] Configuring interfaces with unprivileged containers

Heena Sirwani heenasirwani at gmail.com
Fri Jun 3 12:51:42 UTC 2016


On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 6:20 PM, Heena Sirwani <heenasirwani at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
> I was trying to configure a container to behave as a router by connecting
> one of its interfaces to a bridge that connects it to the internet and
> another interface bridged to provide a private network to devices. I was
> able to do this in a privileged container. In an unprivileged container, it
> says unable to configure network. I would like to ask, how will I be able
> to configure interfaces for an unprivileged container?
>
> The error logs are something like this:
>             lxc 1464950278.448 ERROR    lxc_start - start.c:lxc_spawn:1047
> - failed to create the configured network
>             lxc 1464950278.448 ERROR    lxc_start -
> start.c:__lxc_start:1213 - failed to spawn 'test1'
>
> And my configs are something like these:
> lxc.network.type = veth
> lxc.network.link = br0
> lxc.network.flags = up
> lxc.network.hwaddr = 00:16:3e:xx:xx:xx
>
> lxc.network.type = veth
> lxc.network.link = br5
> lxc.network.flags = up
> lxc.network.hwaddr = 00:16:3e:xx:xx:xx
>
> Am I missing something?
>
> Thanks,
> Heena
>
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