OpenVZ consists of a kernel, user-level tools and VPS templates. Kernel and tools are needed to install OpenVZ, and templates are needed to create VEs.

For kernel and utilities installation instructions, see Quick Install document. For information about templates, read this document.

All the downloadable stuff is also available directly from download.openvz.org and its mirrors (also available via ftp).

Yum repository

If you are using yum, you can add openvz yum repository by putting openvz.repo file to the /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory. For more info about yum and OpenVZ yum repository, see wiki:Yum.

GPG signed

Note that all RPM packages from OpenVZ project should be signed by our GPG key. You can get the public key from this server or download server and import it to your RPMDB using rpm --import filename command.

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Kernel

Kernel is the heart of OpenVZ. This is modified Linux kernel with virtualization layer added.

Utilities

Set of user-level tools needed to run OpenVZ. Consists of vzctl - an utility to control VPSs and vzquota - VPS disk quota configuration tool.

Templates

Templates are OS images for installation into OpenVZ VPS. An OS template is basically a set of packages from some Linux distribution used to populate a VPS. With OpenVZ, different distributions can co-exist on the same hardware box, so multiple OS templates are available. Here you can find various OS templates, as well as template utilities.

Live CDs

Live CD is the best way to test drive OpenVZ without a need to install it.