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Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
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OpenVZ container driver
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.. contents::
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The OpenVZ driver for libvirt allows use and management of container based
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virtualization on a Linux host OS. Prior to using the OpenVZ driver, the OpenVZ
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enabled kernel must be installed & booted, and the OpenVZ userspace tools
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installed. The libvirt driver has been tested with OpenVZ 3.0.22, but other
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3.0.x versions should also work without undue trouble.
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Project Links
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- The `OpenVZ <https://openvz.org/>`__ Linux container system
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Connections to OpenVZ driver
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----------------------------
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The libvirt OpenVZ driver is a single-instance privileged driver, with a driver
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name of 'openvz'. Some example connection URIs for the libvirt driver are:
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openvz:///system (local access)
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openvz+unix:///system (local access)
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openvz://example.com/system (remote access, TLS/x509)
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openvz+tcp://example.com/system (remote access, SASl/Kerberos)
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openvz+ssh://root@example.com/system (remote access, SSH tunnelled)
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Notes on bridged networking
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Bridged networking enables a guest domain (ie container) to have its network
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interface connected directly to the host's physical LAN. Before this can be used
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there are a couple of configuration pre-requisites for the host OS.
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Host network devices
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One or more of the physical devices must be attached to a bridge. The process
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for this varies according to the operating system in use, so for up to date
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notes consult the `Wiki <https://wiki.libvirt.org>`__ or your operating system's
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networking documentation. The basic idea is that the host OS should end up with
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a bridge device "br0" containing a physical device "eth0", or a bonding device
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"bond0".
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OpenVZ tools configuration
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OpenVZ releases later than 3.0.23 ship with a standard network device setup
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script that is able to setup bridging, named ``/usr/sbin/vznetaddbr``. For
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releases prior to 3.0.23, this script must be created manually by the host OS
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administrator. The simplest way is to just download the latest version of this
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script from a newer OpenVZ release, or upstream source repository. Then a
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generic configuration file ``/etc/vz/vznet.conf`` must be created containing
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#!/bin/bash
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EXTERNAL_SCRIPT="/usr/sbin/vznetaddbr"
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The host OS is now ready to allow bridging of guest containers, which will work
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whether the container is started with libvirt, or OpenVZ tools.
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Example guest domain XML configuration
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The current libvirt OpenVZ driver has a restriction that the domain names must
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match the OpenVZ container VEID, which by convention start at 100, and are
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incremented from there. The choice of OS template to use inside the container is
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determined by the ``filesystem`` tag, and the template source name matches the
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templates known to OpenVZ tools.
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::
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<domain type='openvz' id='104'>
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<name>104</name>
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<uuid>86c12009-e591-a159-6e9f-91d18b85ef78</uuid>
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<vcpu>3</vcpu>
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<os>
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<type>exe</type>
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<init>/sbin/init</init>
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</os>
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<devices>
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<filesystem type='template'>
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<source name='fedora-9-i386-minimal'/>
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<target dir='/'/>
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</filesystem>
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<interface type='bridge'>
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<mac address='00:18:51:5b:ea:bf'/>
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<source bridge='br0'/>
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<target dev='veth101.0'/>
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</interface>
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</devices>
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</domain>
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