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This document briefly describes the steps needed to install OpenVZ on your machine.
There are two a few ways to get OpenVZ:
=== Virtuozzo bare-metal installation ===
: OpenVZ project building special builds its own Linux distribution with both hypervisor and container virtualization.It consists from is based on [https://www.cloudlinux.com/ Cloud LinuxCloudLinux] distribution, with the additions of [[Download/kernel/rhel7-testing|our custom kernel]], OpenVZ management utilities, [[QEMU]] and Virtuozzo installer. It is highly recommended to use OpenVZ containers and virtual machines with this Virtuozzo installation image. See [[Virtuozzo]].
[http://download.openvz.org/virtuozzo/releases/7.0/x86_64/iso/ Download] installation ISO image.
=== Using OpenVZ on existed pre-installed Linux distribution ===
: There is ability to Alternatively, one can install OpenVZ on a pre-installed RPM based Linux distribution. Follow step-by-step instruction below:
Package ''virtuozzo-release'' will bring meta information and Yum repositories:
yum install yum-plugin-priorities
Then perform installation of install mandatory Virtuozzo RPM packages:
yum install -y prlctl prl-disp-service vzkernel
Known issues: {{B|3274}}, {{B|3275}}, {{B|3273}}.
=== OpenVZ with upstream Linux kernel ===
: There is ability to One can use OpenVZ containers in with vanilla kernel. But there , albeit with some disadvantageslimitations:
* Some required changes may be absent in Linux kernel on your machine. Our [[Virtuozzo]] distribution based on Cloud Linux and we strongly recommend to use it if you don't want to install Virtuozzo Linux distribution for some reasons. Cloud Linux kernel contains some important changes absent in another kernels (even RHEL kernels).
* It is required to create a separate partition mounted and mount it to /vz.
See [[OpenVZ with upstream kernel]].
