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Here you can find OpenVZ Live CD images. Live CD is a great way to test drive the OpenVZ technology without a need to actually install it on your machine.

We offer ~~two~~ three live CDs at the moment. The first one is based on Knoppix 5.1.1 ~~and~~ , the second one is based on ~~Centos~~ CentOS 4.4, and the third one is the "official" [http://www.openwall.com/Owl/ Openwall GNU/*/Linux (or Owl)] CD (live & installable).

== Download ==

The precreated ISO images for Knoppix and CentOS are available directly from [http://download.openvz.org/livecd/ download.openvz.org/livecd/] or any of the [[download mirrors]]. The ISO images for Owl are available from the [http://www.openwall.com/Owl/DOWNLOAD.shtml Openwall FTP mirrors], such as via the links below (which use a specific fast mirror).

=== CentOS ===

=== Owl ===* [ftp://ftp.fr.openwall.com/pub/Owl/current/iso/Owl-current-20100128-i686.iso.gz 32-bit x86 (450 MB)]* [ftp://ftp.fr.openwall.com/pub/Owl/current/iso/Owl-current-20100128-x86_64.iso.gz x86-64 (454 MB)]* [ftp://ftp.fr.openwall.com/pub/Owl/current/iso/iso.mtree MD5 and SHA-1 digests of the ISOs above]* [ftp://ftp.fr.openwall.com/pub/Owl/current/iso/iso.mtree.sign GnuPG signature of the digests file above] Note that the .md5 , .asc, and .~~asc~~ mtree* files ~~does~~ do not need to be copied to the CD-R; they are here to check the authenticity of the iso ~~file~~files. [[Package_signatures#Checking_files|This page]] has some info on this topic.

== Burning ==

== Using ==

~~Upon~~ With the Knoppix (and CentOS?) CDs, upon successful boot, a browser window with some helpful hints will appear to help you start using OpenVZ. The latest version of that document is also available on this wiki: [[Getting started with OpenVZ live CD]]. With the Owl CD, brief instructions (not OpenVZ specific yet) will be printed to the console, right before dropping you to a shell prompt. Then you will need to proceed with [http://openwall.info/wiki/Owl/usage-examples/OpenVZ/getting-started instructions for getting started with OpenVZ on Owl, as found on the Openwall wiki].

== Limitations ==

** debian-3.1-i386-minimal

~~The~~ A number of original CentOS packages were removed (<tt>openoffice</tt>, <tt>gimp</tt>, etc.) in order

to free disk space for OpenVZ packages and templates.

* vzctl 3.0.16

* vzquota 3.0.9

plus ~~the~~ a number of precreated templates:

* Debian 3.1 minimal

* CentOS 4 minimal

* Frozen Bubble

The above packages were taken out to make some room for OpenVZ packages.

=== Owl CD contents ===

This CD uses the following OpenVZ components:

* kernel 2.6.18-128.2.1.el5.028stab064.8 (from OpenVZ's "rhel5" branch, with very minor changes for Owl)

* vzctl 3.0.23 (with minor enhancements and customizations by ALT Linux and Owl teams)

* vzquota 3.0.12

The live system is a full install of the Owl userland, including networking clients, servers, as well as "development" tools and libraries (C, C++). It also includes installable packages, the installer program, full source code, and the build environment. Unfortunately, it does not include pre-created container templates, but you may either configure networking (with "setup") and download a pre-created template to RAM, or you may use "make vztemplate" to create a new template of the Owl userland right on the CD-booted system.

== Changelog ==

* 7 May 2007, initial version based on Knoppix 5.1.1

* 5 July 2007, version based on ~~Centos~~ CentOS 4.4* 29 January 2010, added Owl

== External links ==

* [http://knoppix.com/ knoppix.com], the home of Knoppix distribution

* [http://centos.org/ centos.org], the home of CentOS distribution

* [http://www.openwall.com/Owl/ openwall.com], the home of Openwall GNU/*/Linux (or Owl)

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