[lxc-users] rename veth interfaces on the host

[Fajar A. Nugraha]

On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 10:32 PM, Spike <spike at drba.org> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I'm using bridged mode for networking and would love to be able to tell
> which veth is which on the host by using more meaningful names. This would
> also very useful for monitoring and debugging.
>
> I found some docs suggesting that it can be done, but only for privileged
> containers. Is that the case? Is it not possible at all for unprivileged
> ones?
>
>
Short version: use lxd, set 'host_name' on the container interface config.

You could probably do the same for root-owned, unpriv plain-lxc containers
(haven't test this though).

-- 
Fajar
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