[libvirt-users] ifname in openvz container

knawnd at gmail.com knawnd at gmail.com
Thu Mar 10 13:25:54 UTC 2011


I submitted a bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=683834

knawnd at gmail.com wrote on 04/03/11 21:21:
> 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.




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