Migrate physical system to OpenVZ container

In this lab, we already install Openvz container kernel at host system.

Create new empty VM

mkdir /vz/root/101 /vz/private/101
cat /etc/vz/conf/ve-vps.basic.conf-sample > /etc/vz/conf/101.conf

Copy data from Physical to VM directory

rsync -arvpz --numeric-ids --exclude dev --exclude proc --exclude tmp --exclude sys --exclude mnt -e "ssh -l root@x.x.x.x" root@x.x.x.x:/ /vz/private/101/

Create /etc/vz/conf/101.conf

VE_ROOT="/vz/root/$VEID"
VE_PRIVATE="/vz/private/$VEID"
OSTEMPLATE="centos-5"
IP_ADDRESS="192.168.1.1"
HOSTNAME="penguin"
NAMESERVER="8.8.8.8"

#Making adjustments

Edit /vz/private/101/etc/inittab

sed -i -e '/getty/d' /vz/private/101/etc/inittab

Edit /vz/private/101/etc/mtab

rm -f /vz/private/101/etc/mtab
ln -s /proc/mounts /vz/private/101/etc/mtab

Edit /vz/private/101/etc/fstab

cp /vz/private/101/etc/fstab /vz/private/101/etc/fstab.old
grep devpts /vz/private/101/etc/fstab.old > /vz/private/101/etc/fstab
mknod --mode 666 /vz/private/101/dev/ptmx c 5 2
mkdir /vz/private/101/dev/pts
cp -a /dev/ttyp* /dev/ptyp* /vz/private/101/dev/
/sbin/MAKEDEV -d /vz/private/101/dev ttyp ptyp
rm -f /vz/private/101/dev/null
mknod --mode 666 /vz/private/101/dev/null c 1 3
mknod --mode 444 /vz/private/101/dev/urandom c 1 9
ls -la /vz/private/101/ | grep proc
mkdir /vz/private/123/proc

Edit /vz/private/{CTID}/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethx

ONBOOT=no

Edit /vz/private/{CTID}/etc/rc.sysinit

#/sbin/start_udev <-- Comment

vzctl start 123