diff --git a/src/runtime/virtcontainers/sandbox.go b/src/runtime/virtcontainers/sandbox.go
index b84174b436..a53003fc67 100644
--- a/src/runtime/virtcontainers/sandbox.go
+++ b/src/runtime/virtcontainers/sandbox.go
@@ -933,6 +933,17 @@ func (s *Sandbox) createNetwork(ctx context.Context) error {
 		return nil
 	}
 
+	// docker container needs the hypervisor process ID to find out the container netns,
+	// which means that the hypervisor has to support network device hotplug so that docker
+	// can use the prestart hooks to set up container netns.
+	caps := s.hypervisor.Capabilities(ctx)
+	if !caps.IsNetworkDeviceHotplugSupported() {
+		spec := s.GetPatchedOCISpec()
+		if utils.IsDockerContainer(spec) {
+			return errors.New("docker container needs network device hotplug but the configured hypervisor does not support it")
+		}
+	}
+
 	span, ctx := katatrace.Trace(ctx, s.Logger(), "createNetwork", sandboxTracingTags, map[string]string{"sandbox_id": s.id})
 	defer span.End()
 	katatrace.AddTags(span, "network", s.network, "NetworkConfig", s.config.NetworkConfig)
diff --git a/src/runtime/virtcontainers/utils/utils.go b/src/runtime/virtcontainers/utils/utils.go
index bac62e8cfd..735cf3a2f5 100644
--- a/src/runtime/virtcontainers/utils/utils.go
+++ b/src/runtime/virtcontainers/utils/utils.go
@@ -12,9 +12,11 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"os/exec"
 	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
 	"syscall"
 	"time"
 
+	"github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec/specs-go"
 	"github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
 	"golang.org/x/sys/unix"
 
@@ -494,3 +496,21 @@ func RevertBytes(num uint64) uint64 {
 	}
 	return 1024*RevertBytes(a) + b
 }
+
+// IsDockerContainer returns if the container is managed by docker
+// This is done by checking the prestart hook for `libnetwork` arguments.
+func IsDockerContainer(spec *specs.Spec) bool {
+	if spec == nil || spec.Hooks == nil {
+		return false
+	}
+
+	for _, hook := range spec.Hooks.Prestart {
+		for _, arg := range hook.Args {
+			if strings.HasPrefix(arg, "libnetwork") {
+				return true
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	return false
+}
diff --git a/src/runtime/virtcontainers/utils/utils_test.go b/src/runtime/virtcontainers/utils/utils_test.go
index 8f3d0eed26..bae9af8dbd 100644
--- a/src/runtime/virtcontainers/utils/utils_test.go
+++ b/src/runtime/virtcontainers/utils/utils_test.go
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ import (
 	"syscall"
 	"testing"
 
+	"github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec/specs-go"
 	"github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
 )
@@ -580,3 +581,25 @@ func TestRevertBytes(t *testing.T) {
 	num := RevertBytes(testNum)
 	assert.Equal(expectedNum, num)
 }
+
+func TestIsDockerContainer(t *testing.T) {
+	assert := assert.New(t)
+
+	ociSpec := &specs.Spec{
+		Hooks: &specs.Hooks{
+			Prestart: []specs.Hook{
+				{
+					Args: []string{
+						"haha",
+					},
+				},
+			},
+		},
+	}
+	assert.False(IsDockerContainer(ociSpec))
+
+	ociSpec.Hooks.Prestart = append(ociSpec.Hooks.Prestart, specs.Hook{
+		Args: []string{"libnetwork-xxx"},
+	})
+	assert.True(IsDockerContainer(ociSpec))
+}