<div dir="ltr"><div>I've been running OpenVZ legacy on Debian 6/7/8 and now 9 (hosts+containers), works fine. Note I compile my own kernels.<br></div><div>I recall I had a similar boot freeze in Debian 8, and fixed it by installing sysvinit too, but I never copied the inittab and instead choose the secondary boot menu (setting init=/lib/sysvinit/init) and since then it worked. I upgraded to Debian 9 and still works fine (hosts+containers). Try?</div><div><br></div><div>And something to be aware: over time I noticed more problems with systemd/openvz: systemd-init not cleaning zombies after a while, systemd-tmpfiles boot lockup, systemd-logind timeouts for ssh in containers, etc. so recently I removed systemd from a Debian 9 host (start with <a href="http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Debian_Stretch" target="_blank">this</a>) and so far so good, I need to do it on more hosts and try with containers too.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm also in the process of trying OpenVZ 7 with Debian, so far I have a working kernel and I'm trying to get the userland tools working...</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 8:52 AM, Vasily Averin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vvs@virtuozzo.com" target="_blank">vvs@virtuozzo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear Narcis,<br>
thank you very much!<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
On 2017-07-09 20:41, Narcis Garcia wrote:<br>
> To nobody has to add virtualization layers, I've created this guide page:<br>
> <a href="https://openvz.org/Installation_on_Debian_8" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://openvz.org/<wbr>Installation_on_Debian_8</a><br>
><br>
> Thanks.<br>
><br>
> El 09/07/17 a les 16:43, Philipp Born ha escrit:<br>
>> Hi,<br>
>><br>
>> you could try to create your underlying ext4 filesystems on an older<br>
>> system with 2.6.32 kernel (CentOS6 live iso for example).<br>
>><br>
>> Ran into a similar issue earlier this week, where the PCS6 kernel wasn't<br>
>> able to work with an ext4 that was created on a more-recent kernel.<br>
>><br>
>> Regards<br>
>> Philipp<br>
>><br>
>> On 08.07.2017 17:57, Narcis Garcia wrote:<br>
>>> Pre-requisite for a Debian 8 (jessie) host is:<br>
>>> $ apt-get install sysvinit-core sysvinit-utils<br>
>>> $ cp /usr/share/sysvinit/inittab /etc/inittab<br>
>>><br>
>>> Then OpenVZ Legacy seems to work perfectly.<br>
>>> (For Debian 9 it doesn't seem to be enough)<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> El 08/07/17 a les 16:22, Narcis Garcia ha escrit:<br>
>>>> Install procedure:<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> RepoFile=/etc/apt/sources.<wbr>list.d/openvz.list<br>
>>>> RepoUrl=<a href="http://download.openvz.org/debian" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://download.<wbr>openvz.org/debian</a><br>
>>>> echo "deb $RepoUrl jessie main" | sudo tee "$RepoFile"<br>
>>>> echo "deb $RepoUrl wheezy main" | sudo tee -a "$RepoFile"<br>
>>>> wget -qO - <a href="http://ftp.openvz.org/debian/archive.key" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://ftp.openvz.org/debian/<wbr>archive.key</a> | sudo apt-key add -<br>
>>>> sudo apt-get --allow-unauthenticated update<br>
>>>> KPackage="linux-image-openvz-$<wbr>(dpkg --print-architecture)"<br>
>>>> sudo apt-get install $KPackage ploop initramfs-tools<br>
>>>> if [ ! -d /vz ] ; then sudo ln -s /var/lib/vz/ /vz ; fi<br>
>>>> sudo reboot<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Attaching screenshots.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> - Tested with 042stab123.9 both with i386 and amd64 architectures.<br>
>>>> - [Control]+[Alt]+[Delete] reboots normally.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
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