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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...

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Basic 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...

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Install 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...

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Installing 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...

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Create 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,...

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OpenVZ 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...

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Move 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...

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Proxmox 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...

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Bash 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...

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Mount 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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