Comments on: OpenVZ Ubuntu 9.10 Templates

By: bodhi.zazen

bodhi.zazen — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:16:46 +0000

See : http://blog.bodhizazen.net/linux/ubuntu-10-04-openvz-templates/

By: LS

LS — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 02:19:37 +0000

How to upgrade intalled disk template with Ubuntu 9.04 to 10.04 (beta) and run this as OpenVZ guest system – see this manual, it’s works but with some langs :(

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1461992

By: bodhi.zazen

bodhi.zazen — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:52:31 +0000

From my experience with karmic, IMO, it is frustrating to try to use openvz ubuntu templates during the development cycle.

The ubuntu developers have decided not to support the openvz kernel in lucid and it seems they are not concerned with openvz guests either.

I suspect this may also affect other similar technologies such as LXC, Xen, and VServer.

For now my advice is to stay with supported OS such as Debian or Centos.

Once Lucid is released I may look at creating a 10.04 openvz template.

By: Miha

Miha — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:12:17 +0000

For the past couple of days I’m trying to creade a fresh Lucid template but without much success. The updated openvz.conf seems to get me a bit closer but still no luck.
I’m getting following in the init.log
libudev: init: hwclock main process (20) terminated with status 77
init: ureadahead main process (21) terminated with status 5
libudev: udev_monitor_new_from_netlink: error getting socket: Invalid argument
mountall:mountall.c:3181: Assertion failed in main: udev_monitor = udev_monitor_new_from_netlink (udev, “udev”)
init: openvz pre-start process (17) terminated with status 1
init: mountall main process (27) killed by ABRT signal
General error mounting filesystems.
A maintenance shell will now be started.
CONTROL-D will terminate this shell and reboot the system.

The problematic one being udev one..
It seems that this is reported https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mountall/+bug/516684 but marked as won’t fix as same as https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mountall/+bug/436130

Ubuntu devs are becoming a bit too arrogant for my taste. Which is unfortunate if one likes in general what they’ve done.

By: bodhi.zazen

bodhi.zazen — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:35:42 +0000

I have not looked at 10.04 much yet, but appreciate your bug report as well as Stephane Graber , his patience , and his Upstart scripts, which I have shamelessly copied.

I did have to modify his script for 9.10, and will look at 10.04 in the next few weeks.

By: SOL-Invictus

SOL-Invictus — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:34:08 +0000

Stephane Graber already has a fix for his script for Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid, as written in the bug-report (https://bugs.launchpad.net/openvz-kernel/+bug/436130 ) :
“Simply edit /etc/init/openvz.conf and remove the two mount lines
for /proc and /sys”

Thanks! :)

By: SOL-Invictus

SOL-Invictus — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:03:23 +0000

Thanks for your bug-report and this helpful blog-entry. i managed to apt-get dist-upgrade from ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 and get it working again and get rid of this message:

# vzctl enter 1234
enter into VE 1234 failed
Unable to open pty: No such file or directory

when i wanted to dist-upgrade to ubuntu 10.04 sadly i got this problem again. i wrote about the problem on https://bugs.launchpad.net/openvz-kernel/+bug/436130 also.

this is a serious problem and very easy to reproduce:
on an openvz host try to install one of the ubuntu templates from here: http://wiki.openvz.org/Download/template/precreated
i tried with ubuntu-9.10-x86.tar.gz and ubuntu-9.04-i386-minimal.tar.gz

when you change the /etc/apt/sources.list to the next distribution and perform an apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade the container will hang on next reboot,

# vzctl enter 1234
enter into VE 1234 failed
Unable to open pty: No such file or directory

the dist-upgrade to ubuntu 9.10 was working with the script from here, but not anymore with the dist-upgrade to ubuntu 10.04.

By: Alexander

Alexander — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:55:44 +0000

I upgraded a container running Ubuntu 9.04 and afterwards, I was getting errors about tty devices and networking didn’t work. After several hours of trying to hunt down the sources of the problems, I came across your blog. You instructions on how to create a 9.10 template and this config file fixed all the problems my container had. Thanks you!!

By: Philon

Philon — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:37:49 +0000

Thanks! That just saved my day… I tried Copy&Paste first, but did not work with the double –. The wget worked just fine…

By: Bodhi.Zazen: Download Ubuntu 9.10 OpenVZ Templates | L&C Tech Talk

Bodhi.Zazen: Download Ubuntu 9.10 OpenVZ Templates | L&C Tech Talk — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:05:49 +0000

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