Download/vzctl/4.3

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 4.2:

New functionality

• vzctl enter/exec now works for upstream kernel 3.8+
• vzctl snapshot-[u]mount
• user namespace support for upstream kernel 3.9+
• vzctl suspend/resume: support upstream 3.x kernel via CRIU (http://criu.org)
• vzmigrate: add compatibility pre-checks for CPT version and CPU flags (#2461)
• Add vzstats dependency to rpm package

Improvements

• vzctl: introduce cleanup handler mechanism, use for ploop, scripts etc.
• vzctl start: add pre-start dist script
• vzctl start: remove dumpfile on successful start
• vzmigrate: add -o BatchMode=yes to SSH_OPTIONS
• vzctl console: recognize ESC as a first character
• add vzctl itself to OOM group configuration
• bash-completion: add vzctl snapshot-list options
• bash-completion: add vzctl snapshot-* --id/--uuid argument
• vzctl set --reset_ub: make exclusive
• vzctl set: on fail don't warn about missing --save
• etc/init.d/vz*: try to run vzstats
• vzmigrate: add --check-only (aka --dry-run)
• Move container private area check after executing premount scripts

Fixes

• vzctl snapshot-list -o desc,device: fix width
• vzmigrate: fix ploop-based CT migration wrt symlinks (#2475)
• vzmigrate: improve a few log messages
• vzmigrate: fix and optimize IP address checks
• vzmigrate: fix checking rsync/vzctl exit code
• vps_destroy_dir(): don't call quota on ploop CT
• suse-add_ip.sh: remove a bogus warning in no IPs case
• src/lib/cpt.c:restore_fn(): log errno
• Many (about 40) fixes here and there, found by Coverity
• destroydir(): log errno
• vzctl set 0 ... --force: don't SEGV on non-ovz kernel
• vzctl set --force: require --save
• vzctl set --diskspace: require --save for ploop
• vps-download: fix config file in --config output
• vzlist -o vswap: fix
• vzctl start: fix ub limits setting for upstream containers
• vzctl restore: don't run action scripts
• Fix checking vps_is_mounted() return value (#2534)
• Remove more traces of noatime flag

Documentation

• vzcptcheck(8): added
• vzctl(8): note vzctl set --name requires --save
• vzctl(8): improve --setmode description
• vzctl(8): fix and improve description of set --userpasswd
• vzctl(8): document snapshot-mount, snapshot-umount
• vzctl(8): document --local-gid, local-uid
• distribution.conf-template: document PRE_START
• other fixes and improvements

For the complete list of changes in this release, see git changelog for vzctl-4.3.

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
• Andrey Vagin
• Igor Podlesny
• Simon Boulet
• Roman Haefeli
• Paparaciz
• Nick Knutov
• Konstantin Pavlov
• Kalin Bogatzevski

Download

RPMS

x86 (i686, IA32)

File	Date	Size
vzctl-4.3-1.i386.rpm	2013-05-24 23:09:27	113 Kb
vzctl-core-4.3-1.i386.rpm	2013-05-24 23:09:27	220 Kb

x86_64 (AMD64, EM64T)

File	Date	Size
vzctl-4.3-1.x86_64.rpm	2013-05-24 23:09:27	111 Kb
vzctl-core-4.3-1.x86_64.rpm	2013-05-24 23:09:27	255 Kb

Binaries

x86 (i686, IA32)

File	Date	Size
vzctl-4.3-1.i386.tar.gz	2013-05-24 23:09:26	90 Kb
vzctl-4.3-1.i386.tar.gz.asc	2013-05-24 23:09:29	189 b
vzctl-core-4.3-1.i386.tar.gz	2013-05-24 23:09:26	200 Kb
vzctl-core-4.3-1.i386.tar.gz.asc	2013-05-24 23:09:29	189 b

x86_64 (AMD64, EM64T)

File	Date	Size
vzctl-4.3-1.x86_64.tar.gz	2013-05-24 23:09:26	90 Kb
vzctl-4.3-1.x86_64.tar.gz.asc	2013-05-24 23:09:29	189 b
vzctl-core-4.3-1.x86_64.tar.gz	2013-05-24 23:09:26	240 Kb
vzctl-core-4.3-1.x86_64.tar.gz.asc	2013-05-24 23:09:29	189 b

Sources

File	Date	Size
vzctl-4.3-1.src.rpm	2013-05-24 23:09:27	498 Kb
vzctl-4.3.tar.bz2	2013-05-24 23:09:26	473 Kb
vzctl-4.3.tar.bz2.asc	2013-05-24 23:09:29	189 b
vzctl.spec	2013-05-24 23:09:26	21 Kb

Archives

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

For other tools, see download/utils.

Tools
vzctl • ploop • vzquota • vzstats
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