Hi Lennart! Thanks for your response! I observed this issue on Arch Linux ARM running systemd-216-3, which it appears uses sources from about a week before that patch was committed. Thanks for pointing out the commit! I'll compile from HEAD and test again
On Wednesday 08 October 2014 14:08:07 Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Fri, 03.10.14 10:58, James Lott (ja...@lottspot.com) wrote: > > Hello, > > > > A little bit back I wrote in about having some difficulties adding network > > devices to containers. With some help from the list, I figured out how to > > add my network devices to an already running container using 'iw phy' and > > 'ip link'. > > > > However, I have not yet successfully added an interface to a container by > > way of the --network-interface flag. Attempting to add any ethernet > > devices by this method meets with the error: > > > > [root@host01 lanvpn]# systemd-nspawn --network-interface=eth1 > > Spawning container lanvpn on /home/lanvpn. > > Press ^] three times within 1s to kill container. > > Failed to move interface eth1 to namespace: File exists > > > > According to the systemd-nspawn documentation, it seems like this > > invocation should work > > > > --network-interface= > > > > Assign the specified network interface to the container. This > > will > > > > remove the specified interface from the calling namespace and place it in > > the container. > > > > When the container terminates, it is moved back to the host > > > > namespace. Note that --network-interface= implies --private-network. This > > option may be used more > > > > than once to add multiple network interfaces to the container. > > > > If I'm doing something wrong, then it seems like the documentation may > > desire revisiting. If I'm not, then this could be unintended behavior. > > Which version of systemd-nspawn are you trying this with? Note that > there was a recent fix in the code handling --network-interface=, that > might make work what you are trying to do: > > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/src/nspawn/nspawn.c?id=31 > 25b3ef5db70d45882c7d6f617705802c5f939e > > Lennart _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
