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Looking for an OpenVZ start up guide

I have a PC knocking around that I have no use for and fancy playing around with setting it up as an OVZ node on my home network. Purely for amusement value, I have absolutely no plans to start a VPS service! There seem to be a lot of online tutorials around that can help me out with this, but I was just wondering if anyone can recommend any specific guide? I would like to use Feathur as a control panel (free for private use) as I have 3 services with BlueVM and like it a lot.

Any suggestions?

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  • IvanIvan Member
    edited January 2014

    You can learn the few steps required to install OpenVZ here. And then once you've installed OpenVZ, install the OpenVZ kernel. Once that is done, and once the configurations are done, install the extra tools. And once you've done that, simply reboot your system and boot into the OpenVZ kernel, and you're good to go.

    From there, you can manage your OpenVZ containers via command line. Here are two helpful guides:

    http://openvz.org/User_Guide/Operations_on_Containers

    http://openvz.org/Basic_operations_in_OpenVZ_environment

    But since you're going to be installing Feathur, you can jump right into doing that from there.

    You can also look into OpenVZ Web Panel if you'd like, which is a really easy to setup and easy to use web interface for managing your VPSs.

    I'd be happy to help you if you need anymore help.

    Thanked by 1mark
  • @welovevps Thanks for that second link, I hadn't come across that for some reason.

    @Ivan Thank you for your post too. The OpenVZ Web Panel looks interesting, didn't know about that before. Most appreciated.

    And not to ignore you @sman - I was looking for personal recommendations of tutorials that are actually worth reading. I am familiar with Google.

  • And not to ignore you sman - I was looking for personal recommendations of tutorials that are actually worth reading. I am familiar with Google.

    As per the second link above. That is also one of the top 3 Google give you. So google will get you there too.

  • @mark I can recommend Proxmox VE as control panel aswell. Feathur needs some experience even it can provide you a "1-Click Install".

    If you're going to use Proxmox i recommend you to install the 2.3 version from here:

    proxmox.com/downloads

    Stable and not harassing you to buy a licence. I'm already using it on 2 dedicated servers for 6 months now without any failures.

    Thanked by 1mark
  • smansman Member
    edited January 2014

    @pbalazs123 said:
    mark I can recommend Proxmox VE as control panel aswell. Feathur needs some experience even it can provide you a "1-Click Install".

    If you're going to use Proxmox i recommend you to install the 2.3 version from here:

    proxmox.com/downloads

    Stable and not harassing you to buy a licence. I'm already using it on 2 dedicated servers for 6 months now without any failures.

    Why would you recommend 2.3 over 3? Also, if someone is just learning and wants to keep it as simple as possible I would probably recommend no GUI at all or just keep it minimal such as OVZ web panel over Proxmox.

  • @sman Why why why always. Just because i recommend that. Because i have already using that version and its working fine. And why should i upgrade anything if it works, enough for me and i'm happy with it? You're recommending without gui, i'm recommending with gui. Let me decide it what can i do or not, and let him decide to choose from it. Thank you for listening.

  • jarjar Patron Provider, Top Host, Veteran
    edited January 2014

    @mark Not to pimp my blog or anything but I've got a script on here that'll take care of the OpenVZ installation if it interests you. Might at least be a good reference if you have trouble with the steps on the OpenVZ wiki.

    http://jarland.me/install-openvz-on-centos-6/

  • @jarland - sounds the exact sort of thing I was looking for - unable to connect on https, 404 on http. I can see your blog's main page, and the link to the article there but still doesn't work.

    @pbalazs123 - will have a look at Proxmox too, thanks.

  • jarjar Patron Provider, Top Host, Veteran

    @mark said:
    jarland - sounds the exact sort of thing I was looking for - unable to connect on https, 404 on http. I can see your blog's main page, and the link to the article there but still doesn't work.

    I'm always messing up my permalinks haha :) Fixed now.

  • @jarland Are you sure that is https:// for your blog? Page and site work well in http but secure does not resolve (at least for me)

  • jarjar Patron Provider, Top Host, Veteran

    @jvnadr said:
    jarland Are you sure that is https:// for your blog? Page and site work well in http but secure does not resolve (at least for me)

    Nope I didn't move the ssl. I'm dumb. Works only on port 80 right now :)

    Thanked by 1mark
  • @jarland BTW, nice work there!

    Thanked by 1jar
  • I used the tutorial on lowendbox, which worked fine for me and was easy to follow.

    @pbalazs123 - Is Proxmox VE free? I couldn't work that out from their website, as it seems to want me to buy a subscription.

  • SpeedBusSpeedBus Member, Host Rep

    and a script to auto download nearly all the OpenVZ templates : https://github.com/arjitc/openvz-autotemplates

  • @8420PR Yes, it's free. You don't have to buy anything. Just download the Proxmox VE 2.3 Installer ISO.

  • If you do want to use Feathur for your CP, it'll set stuff up on the slave nodes for you. You can make the master be on an OpenVZ Container on the host node as well.

  • Why bother with all this control panel stuff for a few containers on a home box?

    Install the Openvz kernel and tools on top of a base CentOS 6 install, reboot and then:

    [root@node ~] vzctl create 101 --ostemplate ubuntu-12.04-x86  --ipadd 192.168.0.101 --hostname "test.mydomain.com" --nameserver 8.8.8.8 --diskspace 10G:10G --ram 256M --swap 256M --save
    [root@node ~] vzctl start 101
    [root@node ~] vzctl set 101 --userpasswd root:easypass

    Now ssh to the IP, login and get on with it :)

  • smansman Member
    edited January 2014

    @sleddog said:
    Why bother with all this control panel stuff for a few containers on a home box?

    Install the Openvz kernel and tools on top of a base CentOS 6 install, reboot and then:

    [root@node ~] vzctl create 101 --ostemplate ubuntu-12.04-x86  --ipadd 192.168.0.101 --hostname "test.mydomain.com" --nameserver 8.8.8.8 --diskspace 10G:10G --ram 256M --swap 256M --save
    > [root@node ~] vzctl start 101
    > [root@node ~] vzctl set 101 --userpasswd root:easypass

    Now ssh to the IP, login and get on with it :)

    Yup, for a small home setup this is what I would recommend as well. It is quite easy. There are only a handful of simple commands you need to learn and can always move to a gui later on. There are setup examples on openvz.org. Biggest thing is getting the networking/routing set up initially but once that is done you can just forget about it.

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