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OpenVZ is an open source containerisation technology for Linux which utilities containers to run separate Linux based operating systems on a single machine. OpenVZ is typically used as it touts a low overhead, of around 1-3% of CPU, compared to virtualization technologies.

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Apache reaching MaxClients and locking the server

I currently have an Apache2 server running with mpm-prefork and mod_php on a OpenVZ VPS with 512M real / 1024M burstable RAM (no swap). After running some tests, I found that the maximum process size ...
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iptables nat does not exist

Today my iptables nat on the host system stopped working and I have no clue what happend! (That's very bad, I know) All commands are executed as root user. If I run $ iptables -t nat -L I get the ...
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Changing time or offsetting it in OpenVZ contained server

I am trying to run a VPS, a Debian box contained in an OpenVZ container. Obviously, I cannot use time --set or any such command, as the time must be set via the parent node. The owner of the parent ...
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Why is Linux choosing the wrong source ip address

and what to do to let it choose the right one? This all happens inside an OpenVZ container: The Host is Debian/Wheezy with Redhat/OpenVZ Kernel: root@mycl2:~# uname -a Linux mycl2 2.6.32-openvz-...
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apparmor not working ubuntu 11.04 insize OpenVZ

so it seems I have everything installed, but apparmor_status gives "apparmor module is not loaded." Also some apparmor scripts check for presence of /sys/module/apparmor and it is not there... Any ...
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Iptables port forwarding on OpenVZ CEntOS container

I am trying to setup a simple port forwarding on an OpenVZ container that is running CentOS 5.5. When I run a command I get errors. iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-...
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CentOS 7 firewall-cmd not found

I have just installed CentOS 7: [root@new ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS Linux release 7.1.1503 (Core) I am trying to configure the firewall, and I'm told that in CentOS 7 iptables is no longer ...
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Which virtualization platforms should I choose, Xen or OpenVZ? [closed]

I am upgrading my shared hosting to VPS hosting, mainly to just add server administration skills to my development skills, so I'm facing a lot of new choices just signing up. I need to choose a ...
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Java VM problem in OpenVZ

I bought a vps for hosting my java needs. But I can't run java on it. Everything about java is correctly installed but when I try to run java ("java -version" forexample) I get this error : Error ...
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PHP unable to allocate memory

On my way to the office this morning, every website on our shared VPS started giving the same error (several times, not the typical memory_limit error which is fatal): Warning: Unknown: Unable to ...
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OpenVZ: share a folder between containers

I want to share a directory from an OpenVZ container to another container, how I could do that? do a symlink from /vz/private/109/common-stuff to /vz/private/108/common-stuff ? bind mount /vz/private/...
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openvz and iptables

http://wiki.openvz.org/Setting_up_an_iptables_firewall mentions to load xt_state before starting a container in order to run iptables in containers. so I ran modprobe xt_state on the host and ...
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how to drop_caches in OpenVZ centos6 container

I have tried sudo sh -c 'echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches' sudo echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches and a ...
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Two IPs - One OpenVPN instance, impossible?

I have a debian 64bit vps, OpenVZ, with perfectly working openvpn server. I have ADDITIONAL IP which I want to use on that same openvpn server and I can't make it work. It only works if I specify "...
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Server mysteriously rebooting

I have a VPS that almost daily performs a reboot. I finally managed today to get a clue from my logs May 12 03:14:49 sshd[19379]: Did not receive identification string from 173.212.118.167 May 12 ...
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OpenVZ Host is the source IP address rather than actual web surfers?

I have a problem with my VPS. Simple example: <?php $ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; Echo "User IP : " . $ip; ?> That code should display the user IP address, but it's showing the HN IP ...
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OpenVZ Host is the source IP address rather than actual web surfers?

I am experiencing something a little bit odd. I'm running OpenZV on a CentOS 5 server. It appears that on containers the source IP address that say Apache webserver sees a request from is the OpenVZ ...
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OpenVPN routing for OpenVZ containers

I am trying to make OpenVPN tunnel accessible for all OVZ CT's running on the host. I have initialized the tunnel devise on the host server to remote VPN server. Although I have PING response from the ...
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Taskset not working properly in OpenVZ container

In a Debian OpenVZ container, I'm trying to use taskset to pin a process to a core, but it doesn't work: root@foo:/# taskset -c -p 0 1754 pid 1754's current affinity list: 0-7 pid 1754's new affinity ...
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Can't ssh after configuring sshd_config

I have configured my sshd configuration files to listen to ipv6 addresses, but forgot to uncomment ipv4 local addresses. Here is a snippet from my configuration file: AddressFamily any ListenAddress ...
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How do I add eth0 on centos 5 that is using openvz

I have a vps account with CentOS 5 installed. It uses OpenVZ for virtualization. Now I'm trying to install pptp service (using this guide) on it. I'm currently on Step 6 but I don't see any eth0 ...
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OpenVZ kernel panic

I recently installed OpenVZ on my VMWare box (To do some testing) and I get the following: https://www.dropbox.com/s/p38btkv5j84bvsh/Capture.JPG the GRUB config is as follows: # grub.conf generated ...
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How to see what is causing failcnt on tcpsndbuf

I am seeing a failcnt on my tcpsndbuf by looking at the user beancounters. How am I able to see what is causing this failcnt? I am experiencing problems with my server and I think that it is as a ...
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