MediaTomb or other upnp/dlna openvz bridging (help please)

Peter712

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(quick background)

I have been using proxmox VE for about a year now. I had no other real experience with Linux before this.. needless to say i have learned a lot and now have 10-12 VE's setup running good, and have removed the physical windows boxes that where sucking up power in my basement.

as of this point I have been using the default networking that proxmox provides. but now i am trying to install a upnp server so that I can remove the windows box that it is currently running on.
I am unable to get a bridge to setup and work on my network as of yet and the only info about openvz and mediatomb is http://forum.openvz.org/index.php?t=msg&goto=36869& I don't know how to make heads or tails from this because proxmox uses scripts to generate /etc/network/interfaces. I just want it to dhcp pull an IP from my router. and I can set it from there


also KVM is not an option. running 2 x AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 248 so no KVM support.

any thoughts comments are welcome

Peter
 
I just want it to dhcp pull an IP from my router. and I can set it from there

Proxmox VE needs a static IP for the bridge, so I am quite unsure if this will work. Anyways, you can edit /etc/network/interfaces directly (the web interface generates /etc/network/interfaces.new if you modify something, and that file is copied to /etc/network/interfaces at reboot - so simply delete /etc/network/interfaces.new if it exists).
 
use veth and set /etc/network/interface to dhcp (inside the container):

on a debian container:

Code:
nano /etc/network/interfaces

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

now, start the request to get a IP from your dhcp server.
Code:
dhclient
 
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tom,

Sorry to vamp an old thread. I finally found some information on the problem I've been searching the web for. I am using ubuntu-10.04-standard_10.04-4 as my template and even though I made the changes you suggest here is the error I get when running dhclient

root@Ubuntu:/etc/network# dhclient
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.3
Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/

No broadcast interfaces found - exiting.
root@Ubuntu:/etc/network#


This is what my /etc/network/interfaces looks like

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
 
Oh I just noticed that when I change the Bridged Ethernet Devices to veth, (eth0 selecting vmbr0 from the drop down) and hit save, it doesn't save. Any time I leave that screen and come back to it the settings are set back to disabled.
 
yes, the gui here is not perfect. there are 2 save buttons, you need to click the right one.
 

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