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Save VPS settings/image
After much effort and learning, I have finally setup my perfect VPS(OpenVZ) with webmin/virtualmin, nginx reverse proxy with apache, csf, php 5.4, mysql and all the other stuff.
Now, I don't want to go through this ordeal again. I haven't created any accounts/domains on it as yet.
I want to save this VPS as a template for future roll out, so would like to seek advice from you VPS/Linux gurus on the best way to create a template/image from this one.
I have root access to the node this VPS is hosted on, it does not have SolusVM.
If possible, I'd also like to create Xen/KVM templates from the same.
Thanks
Comments
In general:
I don't think this can be easily done.
use lvm for your xen/kvm images
I think he wants to create Xen/KVM images from OpenVZ.
How about installing Openvz on your own KVM vps and make migration process smooth
. Since this is for personal usage and not "Selling" vps from vps, I don't think any host will complain either.
Isn't this going to cause some overhead? Am I going to see any performance degradation?
Nope. OVZ has close to 0 resource overhead.
Might be a bit extra effort, but use a deployment system like Ansible (or puppet or chef or...). Create your ideal environment once, then set it up anywhere.
When I buy a new VPS, it is set up in 5 minutes just as I want it, because I've created a playbook once for it.
See my playbooks here: https://github.com/RaymiiOrg/ansible
That's not possible, not even Xen PV templates simply because OpenVZ templates are missing to many files (they are incomplete linux distributions).