How To Convert Physical Systems And Xen VMs Into OpenVZ Containers (Debian Etch)

Written By
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Falko Timme
Jan 23, 2009

[ Thanks to Falko
Timme
for this link. ]

“1 Preliminary Note
“I want to convert the physical system or Xen domU
server1.example.com (with the IP address 192.168.0.100) into an
OpenVZ container. I have a second server, server2.example.com,
where I have set up OpenVZ according to this guide: Installing And
Using OpenVZ On Debian Etch. I will use the VEID 211 for the new
OpenVZ container on server2.example.com.

“I will use /vz here as the OpenVZ directory, so make sure that
/vz is a symlink to /var/lib/vz:”


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