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OpenVZ consists of a kernel, some user-level tools, and container templates. Kernel and tools are needed to install OpenVZ, and templates are needed to create containers.
For kernel and utilities installation instructions, see [[Quick installation]]. For information about templates, see [[OS template cache preparation]].
== Downloads ==
; [[Download/kernel|Kernel]]
: Kernel is the heart of OpenVZ. This is modified Linux kernel with virtualization layer added.
; [[Download/utils|Utilities]]
: Set of user-level tools needed to run OpenVZ. Consists of [[Download/vzctl|'''vzctl''']] — an utility to manage containers, [[Download/ploop|'''ploop''']] — a library and a set of utilities to control ploop device, and [[Download/vzquota|'''vzquota''']] — per-container disk quota configuration tool.
; [[Download/templates|Templates]]
:Templates are OS images for installation into OpenVZ container. An OS template is basically a set of packages from some Linux distribution used to populate a container. With OpenVZ, different distributions can co-exist on the same hardware box, so multiple OS templates are available. Here you can find various OS templates for different distributions.
; [[Download/live CD|Live CDs]]
:Live CD is the best way to test drive OpenVZ without a need to install it.
; Virtuozzo 7 [http://download.openvz.org/virtuozzo/releases/ installation image]
[[Virtuozzo]] is a Linux distribution based on OpenVZ components.
== Direct downloads and mirrors ==
All the downloadable stuff is also available directly from [[download:|download.openvz.org]] and its [http://mirrors.openvz.org/ mirrors].
== Yum repository ==
If you are using yum, you can add openvz yum repository by putting [[download:openvz.repo]] file to the <code>/etc/yum.repos.d/</code> directory on your machine. For more info about yum and OpenVZ yum repository, see [[Yum]].
== GPG signed ==
Note that all RPM packages from OpenVZ project should be signed by our GPG key. See [[Package signatures]] for details.
[[Category:Download]]
For kernel and utilities installation instructions, see [[Quick installation]]. For information about templates, see [[OS template cache preparation]].
== Downloads ==
; [[Download/kernel|Kernel]]
: Kernel is the heart of OpenVZ. This is modified Linux kernel with virtualization layer added.
; [[Download/utils|Utilities]]
: Set of user-level tools needed to run OpenVZ. Consists of [[Download/vzctl|'''vzctl''']] — an utility to manage containers, [[Download/ploop|'''ploop''']] — a library and a set of utilities to control ploop device, and [[Download/vzquota|'''vzquota''']] — per-container disk quota configuration tool.
; [[Download/templates|Templates]]
:Templates are OS images for installation into OpenVZ container. An OS template is basically a set of packages from some Linux distribution used to populate a container. With OpenVZ, different distributions can co-exist on the same hardware box, so multiple OS templates are available. Here you can find various OS templates for different distributions.
; [[Download/live CD|Live CDs]]
:Live CD is the best way to test drive OpenVZ without a need to install it.
; Virtuozzo 7 [http://download.openvz.org/virtuozzo/releases/ installation image]
[[Virtuozzo]] is a Linux distribution based on OpenVZ components.
== Direct downloads and mirrors ==
All the downloadable stuff is also available directly from [[download:|download.openvz.org]] and its [http://mirrors.openvz.org/ mirrors].
== Yum repository ==
If you are using yum, you can add openvz yum repository by putting [[download:openvz.repo]] file to the <code>/etc/yum.repos.d/</code> directory on your machine. For more info about yum and OpenVZ yum repository, see [[Yum]].
== GPG signed ==
Note that all RPM packages from OpenVZ project should be signed by our GPG key. See [[Package signatures]] for details.
[[Category:Download]]
