enabling multiple isolated user-space instances called containers. The same operating system kernel
is used to implement the guest environments, applications running in a guest environment view it as a
stand-alone system.
General settings:
Parameter Virtualization Settings
Administrative status Defines whether virtualization is enabled or not
The following parameters can be used to configure a virtual guest:
Parameter Guest Settings
Type Defines which virtualization technique is being used
Description The description of the guest
Storage Specifies the storage device on which the root file system of the guest
will be located
To Install a root-file-sytem you can set up a URL to load a the image from and trigger the installation:
Parameter Install
URL The URL to load the image from. The Image needs to be provided
as XZ compressed TAR archive containing the files of a root FS com-
patible with our CPU architecture (). Different protocols may be used
for the transaction like ’http://’ or ’https://’, ’ftp://’ or ’tftp://’. If you up-
loaded the the image to the router in advance you can also use ’file://’
followed by the local path of the file.
We can provide various tailored Linux distribution images (such as
Debian) on demand.
Install If this trigger is set the image download will start on apply. Any existing
root file system will be overwritten. This parameter will not be stored
in the configuration. After the installation was proceeded the value will
be reset and needs to be set again if a new image shall be installed.
Communication to and from the guest can be achieved by defining network interfaces which can be
either routed towards the guest or bridged with a LAN interface:
Parameter Guest Networking
Guest interface The name of the interface inside the guest
Mode The network mode for this interface (either routed or bridged)
Address The IP address of the interface inside the guest
Netmask The netmask of the interface inside the guest
Gateway The gateway used inside the guest which is also set on the host inter-
face
Bridge interface The interface to which the guest interace shall be bridged
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