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I've done it, it went pretty smoothly. Just edit /etc/apt/sources.list,
apt-get update
, andapt-get dist-upgrade
.I had to fuss a bit with telling systemd not to rename the network interface to ens3 from eth0: one way is
There's a Debian 9 template under the "Contributed" section - https://openvz.org/Download/template/precreated
Upgrading works fine though.
Unless the host machine uses a really old kernel as I sadly found out
Even a dist-upgrade to Debian 9 on a OVZ machine with a 2.6.32 kernel - which was released back in 2009 - worked for me.
Thanks for feedback, I will try it too...
Edit: all went well, except for non-root users, where passwords did not work and had to be re-defined again...