\On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 04:50:07PM +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: > Did your search brought you to > http://wiki.1tux.org/wiki/Lxc/Installation/Guest/Centos/6 ? :D
Did not, and that's a very nice recipe. My current question is if there's an available bridging scheme that will work in my context. The host is an ESXi VMware VM (currently CentOS 6, but could be Ubuntu 12.04 if helpful). The CentOS 6 guest on that host needs to end up with a unique IP on the VMware LAN. VMware does not work unless it can assign the host's IP by dhcp, and at least so far in my experiments will not do that if I set the host to use bro0 rather than eth0. Once the host is up, I can add additional LAN IPs to eth0 without problem. What's not clear is which, if any, of the bridging schemes for the LXC guest on the host can enable that guest to take its own IP on the LAN. Why am I trying such a silly trick? Because I have some perfectly good KVM VMs, but no tool that can convert them to VDOs to put on VMware - the existing tools satisfy the common demand, which sanely is to get VMs off of VMware and onto KVM, not the other way around. But my client is committed to a cloud provider with an ancient, creaky VMware beneath a crippled user interface. So _if_ I can take the LXC guest creation recipe above - which is even easier to follow that it looks at first glance - and then manage the right bridging trick with it, this will be far more efficient than configuring VMware VMs from scratch to duplicate the existing, highly-configured KVM VMs. It could even enable combining some of the less stressed KVM VMs onto single LXC hosts on VMware, to cut back a bit on the cloud fees. But ... can it be done? Looking at this page, http://wiki.1tux.org/wiki/Ubuntu/Bridge, it's not clear if it can be. In KVM, I always just set up a real bridge on the host - the thing it seems I can't do in this VMware setting. In all cases, the LXC guests need to end up with a LAN IP on which they can be addressed from other systems, but not necessarily the LXC host. Thanks, Whit ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ Lxc-users mailing list Lxc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxc-users