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

Richard Weinberger richard at nod.at
Thu Jul 3 09:16:26 UTC 2014


Am 03.07.2014 09:15, schrieb Cedric Bosdonnat:
> 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.

Okay. I'd assume that ifrename does the job. :)

Thanks,
//richard




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