[Users] New setup - deploy OpenVZ or wait for VZ7?

[Sergey Bronnikov]

Hi, Volker

On 14:39 Sun 05 Jun , Volker Janzen wrote:
> > 
> > Unfortunately no. We don't support upgrade from pre-release version to the final one.
> 
> When I use a CentOS 7 as base system and install VZ7 afterward it's not possible to upgrade, too?

There is only one supported configuration for new installations -
clean Virtuozzo 7 installation.

> >> It also seems to lack some documentation for my use cases, but I need to start
> >> with VZ7 sooner or later.
> > 
> > What usecases are you talking about?
> 
> My current OpenVZ setup has LVM involved.
> I want to be able to use simfs based storage on an underlaying LVM volume.

Why do you prefer simfs instead of ploop? Did you see comparison simfs vs ploop?
https://openvz.org/CT_storage_backends

> And I want to be able to setup KVM based VMs that have a LVM based disk, too.
> In best case KVM VMs can be created from a template, as with the container VMs.

Den, is it possible in Vz7?

> Regards
>    Volker