[Users] vzctl netdev_add return "invalid argument"

[Nathan Stratton]

On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Alfred Sawaya wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to add my second network interface (eth1) to a guest. I do "vzctl 
> set 103 --netdev_add eth1 --save" but it returns "Unable to add netdev eth1: 
> Invalid argument"  without more information...
> What can I do to debug this ? Where could I start ? nothing in dmesg...

I have two interfaces rivate and public, so I do:

vzctl set 4254 --netif_add eth0,,,,private --save
vzctl set 4254 --netif_add eth1,,,,public --save

If you want the values autogenerated you need to have the ,,,, there.

http://wiki.openvz.org/Virtual_Ethernet_device

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