libvirt users - Jan 2014 - How to start the linux container's network interface automatically

Dear all,

I failed to start the linux container's network interface automatically. I
have to start it manually each time after the container finishes booting.

I know that in a native fedora, if we want the network interface to start
automatically, we should edit "/etc/sysconfig/network-script/ifcfg-eth0 and
add the string "ONBOOT=yes".

My host is fedora 16. I used "yum --installroot=/root/fedoralxc
--releasever=16 install -y openssh, bridge-utils" to setup the rootfs for
my container (Laine thought that my fedora version is a little bit older, I
wonder if the newer version fedora container can automatically start its network
interface )

After rootfs installation, in the container's file system, there is no
sub-directory named "network-scripts" in "/etc/sysconfig" .
So, I created this directory manually and added a file named
"ifcfg-eth0", but the container's network interface still cannot
start automatically.

I tried to add files ".bash_profile" and ".bashrc" in which
I added the "ifconfig" in the shell script to try to configure eth0
automatically, but it still doesn't work.

I wonder if there is a ".bashrc" for the root of a container? If there
is, where should this file be located?

Any comments will be highly appreciated.

Cheng

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