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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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VPS extremely slow at compression

I have a VPS on Open-VZ, and the server is supposed to have 4 cores 3.0Ghz Xeon CPU. The usage is normally close to zero. When I compress a file (using zip, tar.gz, or 7z) it take too long for such CPU power. What is the problem? And how can I get…
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Running OpenVZ virtual servers within a Xen XCP vritual server? Bad practice?

I have a 1 server with 8GB RAM and 2xQuadcore Processors. It currently has the Xen XCP installed on it, and centos6.2 x64 running on a virtual machine. I have a server control panel software that I want to use and it allows the administration via a…
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How do I rebuild a VM using Proxmox control panel?

I'm using Proxmox Virtual Enviroment (v 2.1) to manage my openvz virtual machines. Sometimes I want to rebuild a virtual machine with other openvz container template, but I couldn't find any tools in proxmox's gui to do so. In contaner options when…
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OpenAFS on OpenVZ guest

I'm trying to install and configure an OpenAFS server inside an OpenVZ container. However, when running afs-newcell, it complains that the AFS client cannot be started. It says "AFS module /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-openvz-amd64/fs/openafs.o does not…
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Translating debian network configuration to gentoo

I just got rid off Debian on my VPS (OpenVZ) and installed Gentoo on it, however it is a plain Gentoo image without further configuration, i.e. no working network. I'm not familiar with Debian and coulnd't figure out how to get the network set up,…
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OpenVZ container can't reach the internet

I installed OpenVZ on my Debian 6 server which has only 1 IP. So I tried to follow this guide on the OpenVZ wiki, but alas only with partial luck. I succesfully forwarded port 8090 of the Host server to the port 80 of a container. But I still can't…
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How to see what is causing failcnt on tcpsndbuf

I am seeing a failcnt on my tcpsndbuf by looking at the user beancounters. How am I able to see what is causing this failcnt? I am experiencing problems with my server and I think that it is as a result of this so I really need to find out what is…
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How do I investigate new transaction behaviour between Mysql 5 and JBoss 4.02 inside OpenVZ?

I have moved a production server over to OpenVZ, something that I've done many times before, only this time it has impacted the transaction behaviour of certain operations. All my tables are innoDB. I haven't changed any parameters from their out…
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How to convert OpenVZ OS template to bootable image file?

My question is how to convert a pre-created OpenVZ OS template which are in tar.gz format (such as these) to an image file in order to be able boot it with other virtualization solutions such as QEMU or VirtualBox. In order to achieve this, I made…
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Networking OpenVZ VEs

I've got a host with OpenVZ installed on it with several containers. I want to set up a virtual network between some of them but without having to use any physical devices but I'm new to OpenVZ and their wiki has no obvious solutions.
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Network issue migrating an VMWare guest to an OpenVZ container

I've migrated a server from vmware to openvz, both are running on the same physical host (I plan to eliminate vmware). If I give the new openvz container a new IP anybody on the LAN and outside network can get to it with no problem, but as soon as…
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UK Service provider w/ dynamic IP Allocation

Can anyone recommend an ISP in the UK that allows for dynamic shifting of IP's across servers? Basically, I've been working on a test project (as possibly easy to tell from my previous posts) with OpenVZ, We are ready to go with this project and…
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Updating modules on VPS hosted under OpenVZ

Been trying to install OpenVPN on a VPS but come into a few problems when trying to start the openvpn server: Service deferred error: IPTablesServiceBase: failed to run iptables-restore [status=1]: ['FATAL: Could not load…
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OpenVZ Questions

I want to create a brand new node and have a few questions: OS Templates: http://wiki.openvz.org/Download/template/precreated Is the "suse" in the first section under "List of templates available at download:template/precreated/ and its mirrors: "…
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Possible to clone an openVZ VPS to Xen domU for dev purposes?

I've been asked to do some server tuning on a production openVZ VPS to try and get the apache memory usage down. (Apache's been hitting the memory limits and we've been getting fork(): Can't allocate memory a number of times a day.) However, I can't…
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