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I’m installing OpenVZ on a little valley d201gly folllowing http://wiki.openvz.org/Installation_on_Debian#install_the_kernel-image:

1. Edit sources.list:

# Added for OpenVZ
deb http://download.openvz.org/debian etch main

2. Update
3. Install kernel linux-image-2.6.18-openvz-686
4. Install vzctl and vzquota?

At this point I was a little confused - what’s a template, where do they live? So I followed openvz.org/Debian_template_creation and howtoforge.com/debian_etch_openvz.

I created a folder private inside /var/lib/vz/, and a folder 101 inside that, then debootstrap 101, and then started 101, and entered 101, but no network. I got an error about proxy arp so I set that, but still no go. Aha, found out what the problem was. Needed “OSTEMPLATE=debian-4.0″ in the /etc/vz/conf/101.conf file.

Wow. OpenVZ rocks. So far I’ve built two VMs:

• 101 - basic debian etch, copied to template, keeping for ongoing modifications as I find them (like adding sudo and rsync)
• 102 - installing subversion for public GPL code we’re working on

For 102 (the subversion server):

apt-get install subversion libapache2-svn php5

I’m not sure if I needed it, but I installed php5 because I use it almost everywhere. Hmm, having some problems with ssl, might need ca-certificates.

Also setup 103, which is a lamp server, while I was at it I created a copy of this to clone later.

While I’m thinking about it, I want to remind myself that it would be a good idea to use some intelligent numbering schemes for these virtual machines. Any number will do, as long as the they are larger than 100.

Yee-haw, just got a gentoo vm setup! Too bad you can’t run FreeBSD inside an OpenVZ VM. Just ran into a problem with the gentoo vm, had to increase the disk quota, but after that, no problem. Also ran into a shadow and pam-login conflict, but found a solution pretty quick.

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