Change the Password for an OpenVZ Container
If you have forgotten the password for an OpenVZ container – relax! Help is at hand. Luckily OpenVZ makes it very easy to set or reset the password for any user of a container. You’ll need access to...
View ArticleBasic OpenVZ Container Management
OpenVZ containers, or CT for short, work on the premise of using a template as the starting point for each virtual instance. The Template usually holds the basic applications, such as an SSH server, to...
View ArticleInstall an OpenVZ Server on CentOS
OpenVZ servers are hypervisors which allow you to create numerous guest instances within a single hardware node. Unlike other products which offer full hardware virtualisation, OpenVZ creates...
View ArticleInstalling the OpenVZ Web Panel
There are many web front ends to the OpenVZ virtualisation server which offer varying functionality and are at different stages of development. Take a look at the OpenVZ Control Panels wiki page for a...
View ArticleCreate a Ubuntu 14.04 OpenVZ Template for Proxmox
The latest Ubuntu long term support is now available, called Ubuntu 14.04. There isn’t currently a template available over on OpenVZ however I’m sure that will be shortly rectified. In the meantime,...
View ArticleOpenVZ USB Passthrough in Proxmox
USB Passthrough is the concept of passing a USB device that is plugged into the host server to a guest. This post will detail how to make the USB device available in an OpenVZ container. The first step...
View ArticleMove Proxmox Container to Different Storage
A task often required when new storage is added or removed, and containers grow over time is to move a container onto another storage device. The Proxmox Web GUI does not give us the ability to...
View ArticleProxmox Error: (warning) Incorrect quota shutdown for id xxx recalculating...
I came across this error today when trying to manually backup the container to create an OpenVZ container template. It occurred, in my case, when trying to start the container VMID 600 after been...
View ArticleBash Command to Check Container Disk Space in Proxmox/ OpenVZ
Keeping an eye on all of your containers disk space can be time consuming if done one by one. Luckily, the vzlist command gives us access to many of the data and counters associated with each...
View ArticleMount A loop Device In An OpenVZ Container
You can pass a loop device through to an OpenVZ container with the vzctl command. You’ll need to mount the loop device on your host, as there is no support within an OpenVZ container to mount the...
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