Hi,

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 08:41:43PM +0200, Michael Schwartzkopff wrote:
> Am Freitag, 25. April 2008 15:27 schrieb Dejan Muhamedagic:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:48:32AM +0200, Michael Schwartzkopff wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > this post is a follow up to a discussion on this list beginnig of April.
> > >
> > > Does anybody did setup a Linux-HA Cluster on a OpenVZ virtual system? I
> > > ran into trouble using the IPaddr2 resource.
> > >
> > > Since a OpenVZ virtual machine is not able to set its own IP address the
> > > resource IP for the virtual address of the cluster will always fail.
> > >
> > > - One solution was to set net_admin capabiliy to that virtual machine.
> > > But I did not succeed in trying that. If somebody succeeded, please mail
> > > me.
> > >
> > > - The second suggestion was to setup new virtual devices for the node.
> > > See http://wiki.openvz.org/Virtual_Ethernet_device
> > > But I think this also will not work, because the underlying host does
> > > proxy arp for the virtual ip address. If the ip resource is moved to
> > > another node that underlying host will still do proxy arp and advertise
> > > the old node. Did anybody find a solution here?
> > >
> > > - The third way I found was to rewrite the IPaddr2 RA a little bit so
> > > that it passes on the information about adding / removing the ip address
> > > to the underlying host which in turn does a:
> > > vzctl set <veid> --ip_add <ip>
> > >
> > > Any better solutions? Thank for a fruitful discussion.
> >
> > I think I can recall that there was a discussion, but no details :-)
> > At any rate, long time ago I had a three node test cluster on
> > Debian Etch with virtual IP addresses (using IPaddr). Haven't
> > tested the setup much, but haven't noticed any problems either.
> > In particular, the IPaddr resources didn't fail.
> >
> > Or did I misunderstand your question?
> 
> I think so.
> 
> Did you setup the complete openvz virtual machine as resource of the cluster 
> or did you setup the heartbeat software inside the virtual machine and the ip 
> address as a resource of that node? First setup should work. My question is 
> related to the second setup.

It was also the second kind, i.e. each virtual machine as a
cluster node.

> Reason: As far as I tried the ip command does not work inside a virtual 
> machine.

Never tried the ip command, just ifconfig (as used by IPaddr).

Thanks,

Dejan

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