Follow the below steps to install OpenVZ on your server.
1. Add the OpenVZ repo.
cd /etc/yum.repos.d wget http://download.openvz.org/openvz.repo yum -y install ovzkernel
2. Adjust the sysctl.conf
vi /etc/sysctl.conf
# Controls IP packet forwarding net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1 # Controls source route verification net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1 # Controls the System Request debugging functionality of the kernel kernel.sysrq = 1 net.ipv4.conf.default.proxy_arp = 0 net.ipv4.conf.default.send_redirects = 1 net.ipv4.conf.default.send_redirects = 1 net.ipv4.conf.all.send_redirects = 0 # Enables source route verification net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1
sysctl -p
shutdown -r now uname -r
3. Install openvz tools.
yum install vzctl vzquota vzpkg
4. Start
/etc/init.d/vz start
5. Download pre-created templates from http://download.openvz.org/template/precreated/ to your server.
cd /vz/template/cache/ wget http://download.openvz.org/template/precreated/centos-6-x86.tar.gz
6. Create a VPS
vzctl create 101 --ostemplate centos-5-x86 --config vps.basic
7. Set hostname
vzctl set 101 --hostname veeble --save
Now you have installed OpenVZ and created a virtual server with it!!!