[PVE-User] Debian network setup for MediaWiki template. How can I pickup an IP from DHCP provider?

[Martin Maurer]

Hi,

the recommended network for OpenVZ is venet. So if you deploy a template like our mediawiki just go with the default venet and configure the IP on the Proxmox GUI.

If you use veth, you need to configure the network inside (behavior by design). On Debian, just do the following via the VNC console:

veth:/# nano /etc/network/interfaces
__
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
__

And manually query dhcp with:
dhclient

As a reference I suggest you take also  a look here.
http://wiki.openvz.org/Differences_between_venet_and_veth

I do not think that it's a good idea to configure servers with DHCP as default and in the case of venet its impossible anyways.

Br, Martin

From: pve-user-bounces at pve.proxmox.com [mailto:pve-user-bounces at pve.proxmox.com] On Behalf Of Bruce B
Sent: Freitag, 10. Dezember 2010 00:27
To: proxmoxve (pve-user at pve.proxmox.com)
Subject: [PVE-User] Debian network setup for MediaWiki template. How can I pickup an IP from DHCP provider?

Hi Everyone,

Just downloaded and and installed MediaWiki from within the Proxmox list of appliances. It did not pickup an IP address and ifconfig only shows the loopback interface. Can someone point me to the file in networking that needs to be edited for this VM to pickup it's IP from the DHCP router? I can also set it to a static IP. I wish these things were actually done on the GUI as these are really the basics. But I understand that many different templates require different type of files tampered. However, it would be cool to set all the templates to pickup IP from DHCP if possible rather than having the user to look for the config info.

Any pointers are much appreciated.

Thanks,
Bruce
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