[libvirt] [PATCH 0/3] LXC guest network device name changes

Cedric Bosdonnat cbosdonnat at suse.com
Thu Jul 3 07:15:43 UTC 2014


On Wed, 2014-07-02 at 23:00 +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Cédric Bosdonnat <cbosdonnat at suse.com> wrote:
> > This patch series allows users to configure the network device name in the
> > LXC container. I intentionaly didn't allow this for hostdev net interfaces
> > as the NIC would be returned with a different name to the host and we have
> > no way to guess under what name it was returned to the host namespace.
> >
> > This will help filling the feature gap with LXC WRT network configuration.
> 
> We need this feature because you want to change the interface name and drop
> CAP_NET_ADMIN?

Well that is mostly the beginning of another patch series to help
converting lxc.network.ipv[46] properties too. I have no feedback on how
LXC users are using lxc.network.name in their containers.

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Cedric




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