[libvirt-users] ifname in openvz container

[knawnd at gmail.com]

sorry, I forgot to mention a vzctl version which is 3.0.26-1.

knawnd at gmail.com wrote on 04/03/11 21:10:
> Hi!
>
> Is there any way to specify ethernet device name to be created inside
> the openvz container?
> I could find such info at
> http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsNICS.
> If I do as below I get br0 as ethernet device inside VM whereas I'd like
> it to be eth0.
>
> $ cat ovz.xml
> <domain type='openvz' id='144'>
> <name>144</name>
> <uuid>0071c128-58b4-4688-be17-1e062a22b36c</uuid>
> <vcpu>1</vcpu>
> <memory>524288</memory>
> <os>
> <type>exe</type>
> <init>/sbin/init</init>
> </os>
> <devices>
> <filesystem type='template'>
> <source name='centos-5-x86'/>
> <target dir='/'/>
> </filesystem>
> <interface type='bridge'>
> <source bridge='br0'/>
> </interface>
> </devices>
> </domain>
>
> $ virsh create ovz.xml
> Domain 144 created from ovz.xml
>
> $ grep -i netif /etc/vz/conf/144.conf
> NETIF="ifname=br0,bridge=br0,mac=52:54:00:74:DD:F3,host_ifname=veth144.0,host_mac=52:54:00:06:78:76"
>
>
>
> br0 is a bridge on the server (CT0). But I would like to assign ethernet
> device inside VM as eth0 i.e. ifname in VM config has to be eth0.
> ovzkernel release is 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5.028stab081.1
> OS is CentOS 5.5, libvirt/virsh version is 0.8.8.
>
> Best regards,
> Nikolay.