In case it doesn't work with vzctl-3.1 (haven't tried it, going to release 3.2 really soon), try the recent pre-3.2 vzctl nightly build, see more info at http://wiki.openvz.org/Download/vzctl/nightly
Make sure you use latest vzctl (3.0.26.2), otherwise vzctl enter won't work with Ubuntu 11.04 containers. As usual, report all bugs to http://bugzilla.openvz.org/
I am preparing an updated set of precreated templates; those should be ready tonight or tomorrow, available from the usual place.
In addition to a bunch of updated templates, this time we add a few new ones: - Fedora 10 (aka Cambridge) - openSUSE 11.1 - Ubuntu 9.04 (aka The Jaunty Jackalope)
OpenSUSE is interesting -- apparently they dropped yum (which was available in 10.3 and 11.0 but not in 11.1) and now they have something called zypper. Also note that openSUSE lacks the code name. Apparently the SUSE guys are already aware of the issue and have a plan to fix it -- the next release (openSUSE 11.2) will be codenamed Fichte, after the German XIIX century philosopher. Subsequent openSUSE releases will also be named after famous philosophers -- Rousseau, Voltaire, Lessing (although I'm not sure which Lessing do they have in mind, probably Theodor). Interesting... maybe they got the naming idea from OpenVZ kernels. ;)
Also, during the next update (i.e. in about a month, not now) we are going to remove a few templates that are old and unsupported: - Debian 3.1 "Sarge" (EOL 30 Mar 2008) - Fedora 7 (EOL 13 Jul 2008) - openSUSE 10.3 (EOL 19 Sep 2008) - Fedora 8 (EOL 7 Jan 2009) - Ubuntu 7.10 (EOL 18 Apr 2009) Anybody who's using those distros inside containers should updated to something more (r|d)ecent and supported. You have been warned.
PS For people who use our stable kernels (i.e. RHEL5 branch) -- please note that you have to update to the latest kernel (028stab062.3 at the moment) in order to use Fedora 10 in containers. This is due to a few new system calls recently added to the Linux kernel which Fedora 10 userland expect to have in the kernel. Those syscalls were just backported to our RHEL5 branch by the OpenVZ team.
I tried it and was able to migrate a CentOS 7 container... but the Fedora 22 one seems to be stuck in the "started" phase. It creates a /vz/private/{ctid} dir on the destination host (with the same…
The fall semester is just around the corner... so it is impossible for me to break away for a trip to Seattle. I hope one or more of you guys can blog so I can attend vicariously.
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