[systemd-devel] Q: Start network in chroot?

[Colin Guthrie]

Ulrich Windl wrote on 13/06/2022 09:09:
> Hi!
> 
> Two questions:
> 1) Why can't I use "systemctl start network" in a chroot environment (e.g. mounting the system from a rescue medium to fix a defective kernel)? When I try I get: "Running in chroot, ignoring command 'start'"
> 2) How can I start the network using systemd?

You may wish to consider "booting" the container rather than just chrooting.

Combined with IPVLAN or similar (which systemd-nspawn makes easy) you 
can bring up a namespaced network interface inside the container 
completely isolated from the host.

I do this for various setups and it works pretty well.

Col