At a CentOS 6 host as root do:<br/><code>yum install yum-utils<br/>yumdownloader centos-release.x86_64<br/>mkdir -p /newroot/var/lib/<br/>touch /newroot/var/lib/random-seed #without it, the initscript installation script will fail<br/>rpm --rebuilddb --root=/newroot<br/>rpm -i --root=/newroot --nodeps centos-release-6-3.el6.centos.9.x86_64.rpm<br/>yum --installroot=/newroot install -y openssh-clients openssh-server yum yum-utils man wget sudo tar passwd<br/>yum --installroot=/newroot clean all<br/>ln -s /proc/mounts /newroot/etc/mtab<br/>rm -f /newroot/dev/nullmknod -m 600 /newroot/dev/console c 5 1

rpm --rebuilddb --root=</newroot rpm -i --root=/newroot --nodeps centos-release-6-3.el6.centos.9.x86_64.rpm yum --installroot=/newroot install -y openssh-clients openssh-server yum yum-utils man wget sudo tar passwd # if you want a extremely minimal installation only install yum  yum --installroot=/newroot clean all # not sure if that is really neededcode> ln -s /proc<br/mounts /newroot/etc/mtab>Create /newroot/etc/fstab should look that looks like this:

rm -f Edit /newroot/devetc/sysconfig/nullinitChange the line mknod -m 600 /newrootACTIVE_CONSOLES=/dev/console c 5 tty[1-6]to#if you want (not sure about this. If they are there, mingettys will run. On the other hand, if you upgrade your CentOS VPS in OpenVZ they would probably be recreated) ACTIVE_CONSOLES=

 rm /newroot/etc/init/start-ttys.conf /newroot/etc/init/tty.conf <code>tar zcf /vz/template/cache/centos-6-x86_64.tar.gz -C /newroot .</code>