{"id":257,"date":"2015-04-28T06:10:33","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T06:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betakb.veeble.org\/?p=257"},"modified":"2025-03-21T13:27:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T07:57:00","slug":"openvz-installation-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.veeble.com\/kb\/openvz-installation-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Step-by-Step Guide to Installing OpenVZ and Creating a VPS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Follow the below steps to install OpenVZ on your server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. Add the OpenVZ repo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">cd \/etc\/yum.repos.d\nwget <a class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/download.openvz.org\/openvz.repo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/download.openvz.org\/openvz.repo<\/a>\nyum -y install ovzkernel\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>2. Adjust the sysctl.conf<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">vi \/etc\/sysctl.conf \n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"># Controls IP packet forwarding\nnet.ipv4.ip_forward = 1 \n# Controls source route verification\nnet.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1\n# Controls the System Request debugging functionality of the kernel\nkernel.sysrq = 1 \nnet.ipv4.conf.default.proxy_arp = 0\nnet.ipv4.conf.default.send_redirects = 1\nnet.ipv4.conf.default.send_redirects = 1\nnet.ipv4.conf.all.send_redirects = 0\n# Enables source route verification\nnet.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">sysctl -p\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">shutdown -r now\nuname -r\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>3. Install openvz tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">yum install vzctl vzquota vzpkg\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>4. Start<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">\/etc\/init.d\/vz start\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>5. Download pre-created templates from <a class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/download.openvz.org\/template\/precreated\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/download.openvz.org\/template\/precreated\/<\/a> to your server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">cd \/vz\/template\/cache\/\nwget <a class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/download.openvz.org\/template\/precreated\/centos-6-x86.tar.gz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/download.openvz.org\/template\/precreated\/centos-6-x86.tar.gz<\/a>\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>6. Create a VPS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">vzctl create 101 --ostemplate centos-5-x86 --config vps.basic\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>7. 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