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vz - global OpenVZ configuration file

Updated: 10 Aug 2005
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NAME

vz - global OpenVZ configuration file

SYNOPSIS

/etc/sysconfig/vz

DESCRIPTION

This is global configuration file for OpenVZ. It consists of lines in the form

PARAMETER="value"

All parameter names and values are case-sensitive. Quotes surrounding value are required if value contains spaces, and are optional otherwise. Extra spaces are not allowed. All unrecognized lines will be ignored.

Global parameters

VIRTUOZZO=yes|no: This parameter can be set to yes or no, and used by /etc/init.d/vz script. In case it is not set to yes, nothing will be done to boot up OpenVZ on this node.
LOCKDIR=directory: Set the directory to put lock files to.
VE0CPUUNITS=number: Value of this parameter sets cpuunits for VPS0.
LOGGING=yes|no: Enables or disables logging. This parameter can be set to yes or no, default is yes.
LOGFILE=file: Set location of log file, default is /var/log/vzctl.log.
LOG_LEVEL=number: Set the logging level. The more number is, the more information will be displayed.

Disk quota parameters

DISK_QUOTA=yes|no: In case the value of this parameter is set to no, all disk quota operations are disabled.
VZFASTBOOT=yes|no: This parameter is used by /etc/init.d/vz start script. In case the value of this parameter is set to yes, VPS with incorrectly shutdown quota state started without quota check and after all VPSs started marked VPSs restarted.

Network interface parameters

VE_ROUTE_SRC_DEV=device: This parameter specifies the network device name which ip address will used for source ip. If on HN configured > 1 network interfaces and needed to specify the source ip address, set corresponding device. By default takes the first in network device list.
TEMPLATE=directory: Value of this parameter is a directory in which all VPS template data are stored.

Defaults for VPS

Below parameters are defaults for VPS, and gets overwritten by parameters in vps.conf(5) VPS configuration file.

VE_ROOT=directory: Value of this parameter is the directory which serves as VPS root mount point. Value must contain string $VPSID, it gets substituted with actual numeric VPS id.
VE_PRIVATE=directory: Value of this parameter is the directory in which all the files and directories specific to that VPS are stored. Value must contain string $VPSID, it gets substituted with actual numeric VPS id.
CONFIGFILE=name: Specified default configuration file on create action, corresponds to --config option

Any other parameter that appears in per-VPS configuration file vps.conf(5) can be also set here. Still, it is recommended to keep TEMPLATE, VE_PRIVATE and VE_ROOT in this configuration files, and all the other VPS-related parameters in per-VPS configuration files.