No tun device in lxc guest for openvpn

Solution 1:

I'm not familiar with lxc, but try the following commands:

# mkdir /dev/net 
# mknod /dev/net/tun c 10 200 
# chmod 666 /dev/net/tun

Solution 2:

The answers above don't actually work now with current versions of lxc. Manually creating a character device with mknod has no effect - the device is not visible inside the container. Use of the autodev functionality in lxc is required.

• For systems with systemd See LXC Config on the Arch Linux Wiki for OpenVPN in Linux Containers.
• In an Alpine Linux container (without systemd) I use:

lxc.cgroup.devices.deny = a

lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 10:200 rwm

lxc.hook.autodev = sh -c "modprobe tun; cd ${LXC_ROOTFS_MOUNT}/dev; mkdir net; mknod net/tun c 10 200; chmod 0666 net/tun"

The order is important - the deny must be first.

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Solution 3:

In addition to quanta's answer. Also make sure you have this line in the lxc config:

mknod /dev/net/tun c 10 200

This is the right syntax:

#tun
lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 10:200 rwm