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campylobacter

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From: Austria

Registered: 2004-04-12

Posts: 60

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openvz How-To?

Hello,

Can anybody write an wiki entry how install and use OpenVZ. In our forum i found nothing. Perfectly with an Archlinux template for OpenVZ.

Thank you!!!

Bye

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: openvz How-To?

This guy on the mailing list seemed serious about it a few months ago, although I haven't seen anything about it since.

Maybe send him a mail, see how he's doing, pick up what he's done, try it yourself - and then you could write the wiki page, for everyone else to admire.

daeltar

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From: Czech Republic, Prague

Registered: 2003-10-22

Posts: 31

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Re: openvz How-To?

Something new about this?

I am going to use this technology on my new server and of course use Arch under it. But still no hints about arch and OpenVZ...

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random

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Registered: 2007-11-22

Posts: 12

Re: openvz How-To?

On the French AUR site, I noticed they have PKGBUILDs for vzpkg, vzquota, and vzctl. I installed them and they seem to work fine. All you need is an OpenVZ-patched kernel.

One hint for those of you that try it: disable checkpointing since (according to an openvz forum post) it isn't completely finished yet.

I'd like to one day see some recent openvz-patched kernels in AUR or something I'd throw something in AUR myself but don't really have the time right now.

EDIT: Turns out all you need to do is grab vzctl, vzpkg, and vzquota from the French AUR site and make yourself an openvz-patched kernel. Then, you're set. Just add vzd to your /etc/rc.conf's DAEMONS list.

Cheers.

Last edited by random (2007-11-26 18:33:46)

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silvik

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From: Bucharest/Romania

Registered: 2006-11-08

Posts: 110

Re: openvz How-To?

Turns out all you need to do is grab vzctl, vzpkg, and vzquota from the French AUR site and make yourself an openvz-patched kernel. Then, you're set. Just add vzd to your /etc/rc.conf's DAEMONS list.

I cannot find the French AUR... could someone give me a link?
Thanks

zenny

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Registered: 2008-04-15

Posts: 24

Re: openvz How-To?

I found the French AUR at http://repo.archlinux.fr/i686/

It has vzctl alone. I could not find vzpkg and vzquota there.

However, after I communicated with the gentleman in this link (http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch … 09761.html) I though of going with CentOS5 instead as it seems like too much of work in order to reinvent the wheel again!

And the Arch forum support seems to be pretty slow and sometimes unresponsive (I was referring to a post by mullman about FreePBX, too)

Will it improve in the future with Archlinux so that it could be deployed in the production environment?

Last edited by zenny (2008-04-15 06:12:48)

jlcyr

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From: Canada

Registered: 2008-06-17

Posts: 1

Re: openvz How-To?

There is a simple way of installing it.. An OpenVZ kernel package and tools packages are availables in the aur.archlinux.org repository. See
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O … _Search=Go to find a list of availables packages.

Note: Could update the OpenVZ kernel patch version to 05.1 instead of 02.2 in 3 places in the PKGBUILD file before building it.