Do a real bridge on the host and use it on both the VM and the container. I do it all the time.
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Anjali Kulkarni <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks - is there any way to do a private bridge between a VM and a > container, so that they can communicate? What's the use case of using > macvlan on a real nic? > > Anjali > > On 8/13/14 9:35 AM, "Serge Hallyn" <[email protected]> wrote: > >>You can't do macvlan on a bridge. It has to be done on an real >>physical nic. >> >>Quoting Anjali Kulkarni ([email protected]): >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> We are trying to have a VM and a container ping each other via a private >>> bridge (not going through host) via macvlan interface. A bridge, lxcbr1 >>>is >>> already created and contains a link from VM, and we want to add >>>container >>> to it as well. >>> To do that, on adding the foll. config to a container, the error shown >>> below is seen, and tips about how to fix this issue? >>> >>> Config: >>> lxc.network.type = macvlan >>> lxc.network.macvlan.mode = bridge >>> lxc.network.flags = down >>> lxc.network.name = eth0 >>> lxc.network.link = lxcbr1 >>> lxc.network.ipv4 = 1.1.1.1/24 >>> >>> >>> Error seen: >>> lxc-start: failed to move 'lxcbr1' to the container : Invalid argument >>> lxc-start: failed to create the configured network >>> lxc-start: failed to spawn 'test' >>> lxc-start: The container failed to start. >>> lxc-start: Additional information can be obtained by setting the >>>--logfile >>> and --log-priority options. >>> >>> Thanks >>> Anjali >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> lxc-users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users >>_______________________________________________ >>lxc-users mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users > > _______________________________________________ > lxc-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users _______________________________________________ lxc-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users
