Quick installation
This article is for Virtuozzo 7 only.
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Note: See Quick installation (legacy) if you are looking to install the legacy version of OpenVZ. |
This document briefly describes the steps needed to install Virtuozzo 7 on your machine.
There are a few ways to install Virtuozzo:
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Bare-metal installation
OpenVZ project builds its own Linux distribution with both hypervisor and container virtualization. It is based on our own Linux distribution, with the additions of our custom kernel, OpenVZ management utilities, QEMU and Virtuozzo installer. It is highly recommended to use OpenVZ containers and virtual machines with this Virtuozzo installation image. See Virtuozzo. Download installation ISO image.
Using Virtuozzo in the Vagrant box
Vagrant is a tool for creating reproducible and portable development environments. It is easy to run environment with Virtuozzo using Vagrant:
- Download and install Vagrant
- Download and install Virtualbox, Parallels Desktop, VMware Fusion or VMware Workstation. Please note that you need to enable nested virtualization support in your hypervisor to run virtual machines on Virtuozzo 7. VirtualBox does not officially support nested virtualization now.
- Download Virtuozzo box:
$ vagrant init OpenVZ/Virtuozzo-7.0
- Run box:
$ vagrant up --provider virtualbox
and in case of VMware hypervisor:
$ vagrant up --provider vmware_desktop
and in case of Parallels hypervisor:
$ vagrant up --provider parallels
- Attach to console:
$ vagrant ssh
- Use vagrant/vagrant to login inside box
Using Virtuozzo in the Amazon EC2
Follow steps in Using Virtuozzo in the Amazon EC2.
Using Virtuozzo
Page with screencasts shows demo with a few Virtuozzo commands. Feel free to add more.
