https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Uninstall any previously installed version if present and then install the downloaded Debian package with a package installer taking care of dependencies, such as gdebi.
Next, head back to the homepage and install the Virtualbox Extension pack which supports USB 2.0.
Now you have to make yourself member of the vboxusers group. Go to the Users and Groups Settings in your Control Panel and hit Manage Groups. Scroll down to the vboxusers group and hit Properties. Check the box next to your username and click OK.

Last but not least you have to enable USB for the virtual machine. Close it if it is running and enter the Settings window. On the left panel, select USB. Check Enable USB Controller as well as Enable USB 2.0 (EHCI) Controller. Then click the button with the small green plus-symbol and add the USB device you need:

If you run the machine a USB symbol will indicate that USB is enabled and a device is running on virtual machine:

By default, the ssh login is disabled on VMware ESXi, in opposite way what it happens on VMware ESX Server.

But, there’s a way to enable SSH Login.

After the system is installed, go to the console screen and type:

ALT + F1

After that, a Black screen will appear (be calm, that is normal), then type:

unsupported

Next, the Server will prompt for root password. Then you type the root password.

Afterwards, you’ll have shell access. We need to edit the following file:

vi /etc/inetd.conf

Uncomment the line that starts with “SSH”. Save the file (it’s a normal vi, ZZ will do that for you).

Now reboot the server:

reboot

After it reboots, you should login with SSH on port TCP/22, and user root.

Edit the file /etc/php5/conf.d/xcache.ini

vi /etc/php5/conf.d/xcache.ini

and check the mm_path. On a OpenVZ virtual machine it should be set to “/tmp/xcache” as /dev/zero might not work correctly in a virtual machine:

xcache.mmap_path = “/tmp/xcache”

Then restart apache2:

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

and check if the error has been resolved.

If the roor still occurs after some time, you will have to reduce the xcache.size.

Edite the xcache.ini file:

vi /etc/php5/conf.d/xcache.ini

and set xcache.size to e.g. 8 MB

xcache.size  =                8M

Then restart apache2:

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

I will use VPSID as placeholder for the ID of the virtual machine in the commands and the script. Replace VPSID with the id of the virtual machine that you want to create the script for, e.g. replace VPSID with 101.

Create the script:

vi /etc/vz/conf/VPSID.mount

and insert the following lines:

#!/bin/bash
mount -n –bind -onosuid,noexec /vz/vps/VPSID/tmp /vz/root/VPSID/tmp
mount -n –bind -onosuid,noexec /vz/vps/VPSID/shm /vz/root/VPSID/dev/shm
exit ${?}

now make the sscript executable:

chmod 700 /etc/vz/conf/VPSID.mount

http://wiki.openvz.org/Physical_to_container

I used this to migrate a ISPConfig Debian system to OpenVZ successfully.

Download and install vzdump from http://download.openvz.org/contrib/utils/vzdump/

cd /tmp
wget http://download.openvz.org/contrib/utils/vzdump/vzdump_1.1-2_all.deb
dpkg -i vzdump_1.1-2_all.deb

Create the backup directory

mkdir /home/backup

Create a backup of all virtual machines as compressed (tar.gz) archive and send a email report to the root user when finished.

vzdump –dumpdir /home/backup –suspend –compress –mailto root –all

vzdump can also be used to restore a backup.  Example: restore the backup of the virtual machine 101:

vzdump –restore /home/backup/vzdump-101.tgz 101

To restore the backup to a different virtual machine, you can specify a differnt target ID. E.g. restore the backup of vm 101 to the virtual machine with the ID 500:

vzdump –restore /home/backup/vzdump-101.tgz 500