Here are some of the links to the latest OpenVZ install files as well as a quick run-down of getting the first VPS up. I got this list when I did a new VPS a few days ago.

Below are a quick set of commands which may be useful to those needing to quickly remove some of the more important limits on a VPS. I have found them extremely valuable when deploying OpenVZ in a load balanced or otherwise very busy environment. Note the --save will save them in the configuration file for when you restart it. If you do not supply the argument then when the VPS is restarted the settings will be lost.

To check the current status and see what, if anything, is being maxed out. IMPORTANT just because I do not list something does not mean it is important. If you see something else that is near the limit use the same syntax as is below to raise the limit.


clear; cat /proc/user_beancounters

This is another really basic guide that is aimed at getting a very basic VPS online. It is the companion guide to my guide on installing openvz. The below shows the downside to useing openvz instead of paying thousands for a real Virtuozo license. If you can deal with doing a little by shell you can save a lot of cash. This is also an open source project so if you wanted to help contribute you could. I do not go into all of the detauls to configuring it but by the end of the guide you will have a vps with just ssh running.

This is a rather short and simple mostly copy/paste guide on how to install openvz from http://www.openvz.org . I have been working with this product for only a short time but I have found it to be very nice. Since it is based off the same technology that Virtuozzo uses it should be just as stable. The only real downside is that it does not have a fancy gui, I for one can deal with that for a testing enviroment! It also works fine for a production enviroment if you want to host VPS from it. Future guides will cover the actual configuration, this is simply installing it and NOT setting up any VPS. The openvz has a lot of documentation on their website which can also be useful. I am only installing the centos 4 minimal and regular because that is all I would believe most people would want, the website has some more. Hint Hint! Don't use fedora core!! Also they only have the templates for yum for Centos 4 so using the centos 3 image is hard. They also have images for fedora core with the yum templates if you want to get them. In time I may try to release an image wih cPanel already installed.

So why do you want to install yum on a rhel box if you already have up2date for RHEL4? Well there are a number of reasons, the main one and the reason I wrote this is that I was installing openvz and it needed yum installed. Trying to just use the yum rpm or source compiling was getting all sorts of python errors. I decided to just grab the centos 4 rpms. Note this is not going to be used for updating, up2date still is used for that.


*NOTE* There was some confusion below, this guide is only to be used on a RHEL4 server - it will break RHEL3.