Download/vzctl/4.0

vzctl is a tool to control OpenVZ containers.

Warning: this is an old version of vzctl. For the latest version, see Download/vzctl/4.11.1.

Changes

Since 3.3:

New features

• Ability to work with non-openvz kernel (experimental, see vzctl for upstream kernel)
• vzlist: add JSON output format (--json flag)
• vzctl compact: implement (to compact ploop image)
• vzctl snapshot: store/restore CT config on snapshot create/switch
• vzctl set: add --mount_opts to set mount options for ploop
• Implement dynamic loading of ploop library
• Implement ability to build w/o ploop headers (./configure --without-ploop)
• Split into vzctl-core and vzctl packages, removed vzctl-lib
• Scripts moved from /usr/lib[64]/vzctl/scripts to /usr/libexec/vzctl
• Added dists/scripts support for Alpine Linux

Fixes

• postcreate.sh: create /etc/resolv.conf with correct owner and perms (#2290)
• vzctl --help: add snapshot* and compact commands
• vzctl set --capability: improve cap setting code, eliminate kernel warning
• vzctl set --quotaugidlimit: fix working for ploop after restart
• vzctl start|enter|exec: eliminate race condition when checking CT's /sbin/init
• vzlist, vzctl set --save: avoid extra delimiter in features list
• vzlist: return default to always print CTID (use -n for names) (#2308)
• vzmigrate: fix for offline migration of ploop CT (#2316, #2356)
• vzctl.spec: add wget requirement (for vps-download)
• osrelease.conf: add ubuntu-12.04 (#2343)
• init.d/vz-redhat: fix errorneous lockfile removal (#2342)
• suse-add_ip.sh: do not set default route on venet0 when no IPs (#1941)
• arch-del_ip.sh: fixed for /etc/rc.conf case (#2367)
• arch-{add,del}_ip.sh: updated to deal with new Arch netcfg (#2280)
• postcreate.sh: check if file exists before setting fattr (#2363)
• configure.ac: on an x86_64, install libraries to lib64
• Build system: fix massively parallel build (e.g. make -j88)

Improvements

• init.d/vz*: stop CTs in the in the reverse order of start (#2330)
• init.d/vz-redhat: add /vz to PRUNEPATHS in /etc/updatedb.conf
• bash-completion: add remote completion for --ostemplate
• bash_completion: complete ploop commands only if supported by the kernel
• vzctl: call set_personality32() for 32-bit CTs on all architectures
• vzctl console: speed up by using buffering
• vzctl chkpnt: fsync dump file
• vzctl mount,destroy,snapshot-list: error out for too many arguments
• vzctl set --diskinodes: warn it's ignored on ploop
• vzctl set --hostname: put ::1 below 127.0.0.1 in CT's /etc/hosts (#2290)
• vzctl set: remove --noatime (obsolete now when relatime is used)
• vzctl snapshot: added check for snapshot guid dup
• vzctl snapshot-delete: fix error code
• vzctl start/stop: print error for non-applicable options
• vzctl status: do not show 'mounted' if stat() on root/private fails
• vzctl status: do not show 'suspended' for running container
• vzctl stop: various minor improvements
• vzlist: add the following new fields: nameserver, searchdomain, vswap, disabled, origin_sample, mount_opts
• vzlist, vzctl status: speed up querying mounted status
• vzlist: faster ploop diskspace info for unmounted case
• vzmigrate: rename --online to --live
• vzmigrate: do not use pv unless -v is specified
• vzmigrate: do not lose ACLs and XATTRS (#2056)
• vzmigrate: dump/restore first-level quota
• switch to new ploop_read_disk_descr()
• is_ploop_supported(): reimplement using /proc/vz/ploop_minor
• Code refactoring, moving vz- and upstream-specific stuff to hooks_{vz,ct}.c
• Various code cleanups and other minor fixes

For the complete list of changes in this release, see git changelog for vzctl-4.0.

Thanks

OpenVZ project would like to thank the following people who contributed patches and/or provided bug reports for this vzctl release (in no particular order):

• Glauber Costa
• solar
• Egor Vyscrebentsov
• Roman Kagan
• Daniel Robbins
• mailinator
• Pavel Odintsov
• Paparaciz
• jon
• Vasily Kulikov
• William Pitcock
• Barmaley
• Kalin Bogatzevski

Archives

For other vzctl releases, see download/vzctl/Archives.

For other tools, see download/utils.

Tools
vzctl • ploop • vzquota • vzstats
Versions of vzctl
4.11.1 4.9.4 4.9.3 4.9.2 4.9.1 4.9 4.8 4.7.2 4.7 4.6.1 4.6 4.5.1 4.5 4.4 4.3.1 4.3 4.2 4.1.2 4.1.1 4.1 4.0 3.3 3.2.1 3.2 3.1 3.0.30.2 3.0.30.1 3.0.30 3.0.29.3 3.0.29.2 3.0.29.1 3.0.29 3.0.28.3 3.0.28.2 3.0.28.1 3.0.28 3.0.27 3.0.26.3 3.0.26.2 3.0.26.1 3.0.26 3.0.25.2 3.0.25.1 3.0.25 3.0.24.2 3.0.24.1 3.0.24 3.0.23 3.0.22 3.0.18 3.0.17 3.0.16 3.0.14 3.0.13 3.0.12 3.0.11 3.0.10 3.0.0-8 3.0.0-7 3.0.0-4 3.0.0-2 3.0.0-1 2.7.0-26 2.7.0-25 2.7.0-24 2.7.0-23 2.7.0-22 2.7.0-21 2.7.0-20