From: Filip Schauer <f.schauer@proxmox.com>
To: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Subject: [pve-devel] [PATCH container] config: clarify description of host-managed netdev option
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2025 12:33:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251124113358.43730-1-f.schauer@proxmox.com> (raw)
Signed-off-by: Filip Schauer <f.schauer@proxmox.com>
---
src/PVE/LXC/Config.pm | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/src/PVE/LXC/Config.pm b/src/PVE/LXC/Config.pm
index 6be38a2..6445528 100644
--- a/src/PVE/LXC/Config.pm
+++ b/src/PVE/LXC/Config.pm
@@ -915,7 +915,11 @@ our $netconf_desc = {
'host-managed' => {
type => 'boolean',
description =>
- "Whether this interface's IP configuration should be managed by the host.",
+ "Whether this interface's IP configuration should be managed by the host. When enabled,"
+ . " the host (rather than the container) is responsible for the interface's IP"
+ . " configuration. The container should not run its own DHCP client or network manager"
+ . " on this interface. This is useful for containers that lack an internal network"
+ . " management stack, like many application containers.",
optional => 1,
},
};
--
2.47.3
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