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Is it worth creating a template? [message #43915]

Sat, 29 October 2011 08:53

nik777
Messages: 1
Registered: October 2011
Location: Australia

Junior Member

Hi All,

I'm just starting my voyage into OpenVZ.

I want to run multiple instances of ClearOS (based on Centos 5).

I'm running OpenVZ kernel 2.6.32-042stab037.1; vzctl-3-0-29; and vzquota-3.0.12.

I followed (as best I could) the steps in the Howto in the wiki:
Creating_a_CentOS_5.0_Template
to create a ClearOS template.

The first steps in that Howto, where I created a container manually and copied an existing ClearOS installation into it, worked first off (to my surprise), but I now get errors when I try to create a new container from the template I created according to that Howto.

So my questions are:
Q1: Is it worth trying to create a template at all - given the deprecation of the tools that used to create templates - and the apparent lack of up to date instructions.
- Or should I just create my containers manually and copy an existing installation into them?

Q2: Can anyone give any hints what the following error means:
vzquota : (error) Quota off syscall for id 195: Input/output error
vzquota off failed [3]
vzquota : (warning) Quota is broken for id 195

Thanks in advance for any and all suggestions or advice.

Cheers!
Nik

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