<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
<a href="http://wiki.openvz.org/VPN_via_the_TUN/TAP_device" target="_blank">http://wiki.openvz.org/VPN_via_the_TUN/TAP_device</a><br></blockquote><div>The wiki does not address configuration of the TUN/TAP device. I have used such on non-containers with out problems, but my container's /etc/network/interfaces file is auto generated and there is a comment to use an interfaces.template file. No file exist and when i created one it broke the networking.<br>
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If you don't have root access to the host node, you'll need to get help from your provider... assuming they'd allow it in the first place.<br></blockquote><div>The provider claims it is enabled and will not provide support. One tech did tell me to go a head and make the changes in /etc/network/interfaces ... but that didnt work.<br>
<br>Im switching VPS providers if anyone cares to see the reason and support ticket notes or is thinking of doing business with <a href="http://burst.net">burst.net</a>, check out <a href="http://pastebin.com/f71183c17">http://pastebin.com/f71183c17</a> But I still need to find out if my next provider can be use OpenVZ or not.<br>
<br>By the wiki page I would assume that configuring a TAP device would be virtually identical as on any other GNU/Linux machine? Outside of need host root to enable TAP/TUN is their anything else that would deviate from a non-virtualized host?<br>
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Regarding running QEMU, that's another form of virtualization and I'm not sure how difficult that would be to run inside of a container. Conceptually, you'd not want to run another form of virtualization inside of a container...</blockquote>
<div>I am aware of the implications. Thank yo for making sure. I just want to run an openwrt vm as my personal vpn service and what not... 3-5 megs of traffic max with 32 megs ram....<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
but it might work unless qemu needs special devices or direct device access.</blockquote><div>One can use Qemu with out kernel drivers. Does not preform as well, but works fine, again, my performance need is small. On my local host, i created a TAP device and a bridge. When I run the qemu vm attached to the bridge with TAP i can get a routeable IP address off my network. It sounds like I will have to do this with out a bridge, but first I want to fig out the configuration issues I am having with TAP/TUN in my container.<br>
<br>-tom<br></div></div><br>