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{{Note|Use page See [[Quick installation of (legacy OpenVZ)]] if you want are looking to install current stable the legacy version of OpenVZ.}}

This document briefly describes the steps needed to install Virtuozzo Linux distribution 7 on your machine.Take a look on [[Quick installation of legacy OpenVZ]] if you want to install current (stable) version of OpenVZ.

There are a few ways == Bare-metal installation == OpenVZ project builds its own Linux distribution with both hypervisor and container virtualization.It is based on our own Linux distribution, with the additions of [[Download/kernel/rhel7-testing|our custom kernel]], OpenVZ management utilities, [[QEMU]] and Virtuozzo installer. It is highly recommended to install use OpenVZ containers and virtual machines with this Virtuozzo installation image. See [[Virtuozzo]].[https://download.openvz.org/virtuozzo/releases/7.0/x86_64/iso/ Download] installation ISO image.

=== Bare-metal installation =Using Virtuozzo in the Vagrant box ==

: OpenVZ project builds its own Linux distribution with both hypervisor and container virtualization.It is based on [https://www.cloudlinuxvagrantup.com/ CloudLinux] distribution, with the additions of [[Download/kernel/rhel7-testing|our custom kernel]], OpenVZ management utilities, [[QEMU]Vagrant] is a tool for creating reproducible and Virtuozzo installerportable development environments. It is highly recommended easy to use OpenVZ containers and virtual machines run environment with this Virtuozzo installation image. See [[Virtuozzo]].[httpusing Vagrant://download.openvz.org/virtuozzo/releases/7.0/x86_64/iso/ Download] installation ISO image.

=== Setup * Download and [https://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/installation/ install Vagrant]* Download and install [https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads Virtualbox], Parallels Desktop, VMware Fusion or VMware Workstation. Please note that you need to enable nested virtualization support in your hypervisor to run virtual machines on preVirtuozzo 7. VirtualBox does not officially support nested virtualization now.* Download [https://atlas.hashicorp.com/OpenVZ/boxes/Virtuozzo-installed Linux distribution ===7.0 Virtuozzo box]:

: Alternatively, one can install $ vagrant init OpenVZ on a pre/Virtuozzo-installed RPM based Linux distribution.Supported Linux distributions: Cloud Linux 7.*, CentOS 7.*, Scientific Linux 7.* etc0

Follow step-by-step instruction below* Run box:

Package ''virtuozzo $ vagrant up -release'' will bring meta information and Yum repositories:-provider virtualbox

yum localinstall httpand in case of VMware hypervisor://download.openvz.org/virtuozzo/releases/7.0/x86_64/os/Packages/v/virtuozzo-release-7.0.0-10.vz7.x86_64.rpm

* 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 == Using 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 and mount it to /vz.the Amazon EC2 ==

See Follow steps in [[OpenVZ with upstream kernel]] and OpenVZ [[PackagesUsing Virtuozzo in the Amazon EC2]].-->

== Using OpenVZ Virtuozzo ==

OpenVZ is now set up on your machine. Follow on to Page with [[basic operations in Virtuozzo environmentscreencasts]] documentshows demo with a few Virtuozzo commands. Feel free to add more.