Do you have CONFIG_VZ_QUOTA enabled in kernel .config? Do you have 
vzquota kernel module loaded? I guess the problem is in that.

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Zhaohui Wang wrote:
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> Hi  Kir and Alexandr,
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> I am a student at GMU and doing a project need to use openvz.  I found 
> that vzquota seems not functioning well on x64 platform. Now it is 
> 3.0.11. But I checked git tree at openvz.org and found that 3.0.12 is 
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> Can you tell me how to checkout this new version so that I may have a try?
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> BTW,the error showing on my system while creating a ve is:
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> # vzctl create 3 --ostemplate ubuntu-7.10-amd64-minimal
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> Creating VE private area (ubuntu-7.10-amd64-minimal)
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> vzquota : (error) Quota getstat syscall for id 3: Inappropriate ioctl 
> for device
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> vzquota init failed [3]
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> vzquota : (error) Can't open quota file for id 3, maybe you need to 
> reinitialize quota: No such file or directory
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> vzquota : (error) Quota getstat syscall for id 3: Inappropriate ioctl 
> for device
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> vzquota init failed [3]
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> vzquota on failed [61]
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> vzquota : (error) Can't open quota file for id 3, maybe you need to 
> reinitialize quota: No such file or directory
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> vzquota off failed [11]
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> vzquota : (error) Can't open quota file for id 3, maybe you need to 
> reinitialize quota: No such file or directory
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> vzquota setlimit failed [11]
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> Performing postcreate actions
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> VE private area was created
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> # vzctl start 3
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> Starting VE ...
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> Initializing quota ...
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> vzquota : (error) Quota getstat syscall for id 3: Inappropriate ioctl 
> for device
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> vzquota init failed [3]
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> It’s a x86_64 system,while fc8 is the host.The kernel is compiled by 
> myself .I checked /var/vzquota and nothing is there. It seems that it 
> can not create it by ioctl??
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> Any hints or suggestions would be greatly appreciated,
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> Thank you.
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> Best Regards
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> Zhaohui Wang
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