Hi all, This is my first trial with openVZ and a wiki. Please give me some hints, if anything is wrong. Don't hesitate to correct my poor english.
I just installed openVZ on a rather old test box with Debian. Installation failed at first and I suppose there is one command missing in the instructions for debian.
When I came to
vzctl start 777
I received the message
Starting VE ... VE private area /var/lib/vz/private/777 does not exist
After some researches at the forum I and the wiki I found out that the step
vzctl create 777 --ostemplate debian-3.1-i386-minimal
as described in the "OS template cache preparation" is missing in the debian specific section.
Now I could start and enter the new VE.
One of the first steps in the new VE should be the installation of security patches via apt-get update, apt-get upgrade. This fails because of missing nameservers. I added the line nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx to /etc/resolv.conf and updates work.