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Basic operations in OpenVZ environment

Revision as of 10:59, 29 June 2006 by Kir (talk | contribs) (VPS->VE)

This article assumes you have already installed OpenVZ and prepared the OS template cache(s). If not, follow the links to perform the steps needed.

To create and start a VE, run the following commands:

[host-node]# vzctl create VEID --ostemplate osname
[host-node]# vzctl set VEID --ipadd a.b.c.d --save
[host-node]# vzctl start VEID

Here VEID is the numeric ID for the VE; osname is the name of the OS template for the VE, and a.b.c.d is the IP address to be assigned to the VE.

Example:

[host-node]# vzctl create 101 --ostemplate fedora-core-5-minimal
[host-node]# vzctl set 101 --ipadd 10.1.2.3 --save
[host-node]# vzctl start 101

Your freshly-created VE should be up and running now; you can see its processes:

[host-node]# vzctl exec VEID ps ax

See the vzctl(8) man page for more information.