How do you make custom OpenVZ templates?
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Honestly the best way (atleast for me) was to use the OpenVZ Wiki as the starting point.
http://wiki.openvz.org/Category:Templates
For example, looking into CentOS 6, its just a few commands and then packaging it up.
Personally, I'd use a combination of the OpenVZ Wiki and the TurnkeyLinux's "clean" templates to make my own.
If there is a better guide, I'd totally appreciate it too!
http://wiki.openvz.org/Category:Templates
For example, looking into CentOS 6, its just a few commands and then packaging it up.
Personally, I'd use a combination of the OpenVZ Wiki and the TurnkeyLinux's "clean" templates to make my own.
If there is a better guide, I'd totally appreciate it too!
Personally, I find the easiest way to make an Openvz template is to load up a base template in Solusvm and install it onto a dev vps.
Then make any modifications that you feel like and then click on the "create template" button in the admin panel on the details of the virtual server.
It will then as you to make a file name which it creates from the files of the VPS you edited and places it in /vz/templates/cache .
Then make any modifications that you feel like and then click on the "create template" button in the admin panel on the details of the virtual server.
It will then as you to make a file name which it creates from the files of the VPS you edited and places it in /vz/templates/cache .
Is it really that simple? I was always under the impression the process was much more invovled than that.
I was unfortunately never able to get templates from your site to work, otherwise I would.
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There is not much you need to get them to work. Just place in the Openvz template directory.
I know they work as I use them for Fliphost.
I know they work as I use them for Fliphost.
There is a report a problem on each template page. I cannot fix any bugs or issues if they are not reported.
Please fill it out and I will look into it.
Please fill it out and I will look into it.
I get a 403 Forbidden on this and additionally I can not find a template like this by just browsing the site.
Sorry I moved it around, I will post a new link shortly
herbyscrub
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I do the following and it works fine for me:
- download precreated from openvz website
- load it up in a test box (or production...really doesn't matter)
- customize container
- vzdump --compress 6969
- move from /vz/dump to /vz/template/cache
- vzctl create 6969 --ostemplate debian-6.0-i386-gloo_vnstat --config basic (basically just omit tar.gz)
- download precreated from openvz website
- load it up in a test box (or production...really doesn't matter)
- customize container
- vzdump --compress 6969
- move from /vz/dump to /vz/template/cache
- vzctl create 6969 --ostemplate debian-6.0-i386-gloo_vnstat --config basic (basically just omit tar.gz)
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wilbo
New Member
Does this method strip out the ip numbers from the template?
Corporal Clegg
New Member
Delete them before creating template, see here for example http://openvz.org/Updating_Debian_template
Minimal templates are great! The less the merrier?
Yea, Its fun having debian running on like 2-3MB of RAM. I think that is what the openvztemplate.com ones run at on average.