This guide shows you how to kill an unresponsive OpenVZ container in case the normal stop procedure fails. Killing the container will not delete any files or remove the container, it just kills all processes so that you can start or restart the container again when it gets stuck. I will use container ID 101 ... Read more
Here are the steps that need to be taken to change the ID of an OpenVZ Container. OpenVZ is a virtualization technology for Linux.
OpenVZ is a Linux based Kernel virtualization technology developed by SWSoft for its commercial product Virtuozzo. The modified Linux Kernel and the system utilities are released under an OpenSource license. Vzdump is a shell based backup program for OpenVZ virtual machines. It is made for containers that use the traditional "simfs" filesystem, it can not be used for containers with "ploop" filesystem.
If you get error messages from amavisd similar to the one posted below on a server which is virtualized with OpenVZ: Mar 5 09:09:02 v100 amavis[17378]: (17378-14) (!!)TROUBLE in process_request: Error writing a SMTP response to the socket: Broken pipe at (eval 100) line 987, <GEN44> line 31. then the issue can be caused by ... Read more