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OpenVZ is an open source containerisation technology for Linux which utilities containers to run separate Linux based operating systems on a single machine. OpenVZ is typically used as it touts a low overhead, of around 1-3% of CPU, compared to virtualization technologies.

OpenVZ is an open source operating system-level containerisation which integrates with the Linux Kernel. Because of this OpenVZ can only run on Linux and can only run Linux containers which have compatible kernels. OpenVZ separates out virtual environments into "containers", which are similar to BSD Jails.

OpenVZ is not like traditional hyper-visor based virtualization technologies, such as Xen or VMware, in that is only runs a single patched Linux Kernel. This however lets OpenVZ be faster and more efficient than hyper-visor based technologies. Typically each OpenVZ container will have around 1-3% overhead of that if it were a physical machine.

OpenVZ is the basis of Virtuozzo Containers, which is commercial software distributed by Parallels Inc. OpenVZ is available under the GNU GPL v2 license.

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SolusVM Ubuntu 13.10 OpenVZ networking issue/bug

I currently have a server running SolusVM and using OpenVZ virtualization. I downloaded the new Ubuntu 13.10 from their official repo http://openvz.org/Download/template/precreated and installed it on a VPS. The VPS appears online in SolusVM.…
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OpenVPN forwarding keeps redirecting me to server itself (with openVZ)

I'm trying to configure a VPN on a new virtual server, powered with OpenVZ. I took the configuration of my current VPN, which is hosted on a Xen VPS and pasted it on my new server. After many tries, I look on different topics and see that OpenVZ…
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Outbound HTTP traffic being blocked by APF - outbound filter is off

I'm using CentOS 6.4 inside an OpenVZ container. I'm trying to configure APF 9.7-2 to allow inbound SSH and HTTP traffic (only) and outbound HTTP and HTTPS traffic (don't care much if other outbound works). My conf.apf file is set to the defaults,…
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Mount a folder on OpenVZ Container

I'm struggling to get an NFS filesystem mounted on godaddy VPS. It looks like they are using OpenVZ, and I'm unable to mount an NFS filesystem share from one VPS to another. Does anyone know a way to share a folder between two or more machines,…
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Variable host IP address in iptables rule

I am running CentOS 6.4 with OpenVZ on my laptop. In order to provide Internet access for the VEs I have to apply the following rule on the laptop: iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -j SNAT --to-source It works fine. However, I have to…
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Log Rotate and OpenVZ Virtual Machines

I noticed that my OpenVZ virtual machines (VEs) don't have logrotate installed, and my logs are getting a bit big :-) Since the file systems of the VEs are exposed to the host via /vz/private/.. , is there any reason not to just have logrotate on…
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OpenVZ MySQL InnoDB won't start

I have a OpenVZ Server with 4GB RAM and have tried to install MySQL on several distros (Ubuntu 12.04 64Bit, Ubuntu 12.10 64Bit, Debian 7 64Bit) and I always get the same errors: 130718 6:57:27 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled. 130718 6:57:27…
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Cloning OpenVZ container

I have an OpenVZ container on 1 host and I would like to clone it over to my server. both run SolusVM. I only have root access to my server and would like to host the container on my server now. Can I use rsync to clone the drive while the OS is…
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OpenVPN-AS not starting

I have been trying to get an OpenVPN Access server running but I am having a lot of trouble. I have a host node running Proxmox and I would like an OpenVZ container to run the server. I have gone through this guide but I still receive the following…
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Firewall blocking ssh out from a openVz container

I'm using a firewall on the HN to open/close the ports of the containers directly from the HN. I'm using the iptables script from the openvz wiki. Everything works fine but I cannot ssh out from the VPS. I can enter via ssh into the container, but…
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SolusVM + OpenVZ + Second level quotas -- how to enable?

I have a lot of CPanel clients and I've seen some host automatically enable secondary level quotas on signup. I was wondering how do I do that? Do I need to run a script on signup? Do I need to edit a default container config file? Thanks.
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OpenVZ exec and unable to re-open stdin / Unable to lock the administration directory

I run the following command across all OpenVZ containers to update/upgrade: vzctl exec2 $VM "apt-get update & apt-get upgrade" In all cases, I get the following error: dpkg-preconfigure: unable to re-open stdin: No such file or directory And when…
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Setting up bridging for Qemu and routing for OpenVZ (venet) with multiple subnets on Debian Linux

So i've been searching the past couple days trying to figure out the best way to achieve this but still can't get it figured out. I have a debian server setup running Proxmox to host OpenVZ and Qemu virtual machines. I've been assigned two subnets…
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Tuning OpenVZ Containers to work better with Java?

I have a 8 GB RAM Server (Dedicated) and currently have KVM Virtual Machines running on there (successfully) however i'm considering moving to OpenVZ as KVM seems a bit overkill with a lot of overhead for what i use it for. In the past i have used…
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How to create a LXC container on LVM from an OpenVZ template?

I have a lot of experience using OpenVZ, but I want to give LXC a try on a server where perfect isolation is not a concern. The main reason for the switch is preferring Ubuntu Server LTS as the base OS, but the OpenVZ project currently only supports…
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