Here are a few more details about how I set up openvz:
I performed the installation in the month of April, 2006
I used the the howto available at Howtoforge called:
Building A Virtual Server (VPS) With Debian 3.1 (Sarge) And OpenVZ
I added the following repository for the OpenVZ Tools to /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://debian.systs.org/ stable openvz
As per the howto, I initially installed these packages:
apt-get install vzctl vzquota vzctl-template
On October 4, 2006 I performed the first apt-get update && apt-get upgrade on the hardware node.
During the upgrade I noticed upgrades for 1 or more of the OpenVZ tools, I'm not sure which ones.
Since rebooting, vzctl reports
VPSID 101 deleted unmounted down
VPSID 102 deleted unmounted down
VPSID 103 deleted unmounted down
Note the files for these virtual private servers still exist
Here are today's results of:
apt-get -s install --reinstall vzctl vzquota vzctl-template
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Note, selecting vzctl-template-debian instead of vzctl-template
The following extra packages will be installed:
vzctl-template-debian
The following NEW packages will be installed:
vzctl-template-debian
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 2 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Inst vzctl [3.0.11-1dso5] (3.0.11-1dso5 debian.systs.org archive:stable)
Inst vzctl-template-debian (0.1-1dso8 debian.systs.org archive:stable)
Inst vzquota [3.0.8-1dso3] (3.0.8-1dso3 debian.systs.org archive:stable)
Conf vzctl (3.0.11-1dso5 debian.systs.org archive:stable)
Conf vzctl-template-debian (0.1-1dso8 debian.systs.org archive:stable)
Conf vzquota (3.0.8-1dso3 debian.systs.org archive:stable)
Thank you for your attention in this matter.