Depends on what your VM looks like. You could simply create a private bridge br1, create a tap device, bridge it to br1, pass that tap device to kvm, then tell lxc to stick a veth endpoing onto br1.
Use case of macvlan is to get faster networking. Quoting Anjali Kulkarni ([email protected]): > 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
