[libvirt] [PATCH 16/16] LXC from native: map vlan network type

[Cedric Bosdonnat]

On Fri, 2014-01-24 at 13:58 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 02:50:05PM +0100, Cédric Bosdonnat wrote:
> > The problem with VLAN is that the user still has to manually create the
> > vlan interface on the host. Then the generated configuration will use
> > it as a nerwork hostdev device. So the generated configurations of the
> > following two fragments are equivalent.
> > 
> > lxc.network.type = phys
> > lxc.network.link = eth0.5
> > 
> > lxc.network.type = vlan
> > lxc.network.link = eth0
> > lxc.network.vlan.id = 5
> 
> How does LXC deal with VLAN devices listed like this ? Would it
> automatically create the  eth0.5 device in the second example ?

Yes, LXC automatically creates the eth0.5 in such a case. May be another
RFE to file or patch?

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Cedric