vz(5) Virtual Environments vz(5)

vz - global OpenVZ configuration file

/etc/vz/vz.conf

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.

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 VE0.
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=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, VE with incorrectly shutdown quota state started without quota check and after all VEs started marked VEs restarted.

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 VE template data are stored.

Below parameters are defaults for VE, and gets overwritten by parameters in vps.conf(5) VE configuration file.
VE_ROOT=directory
Value of this parameter is the directory which serves as VE root mount point. Value must contain string $VEID, it gets substituted with actual numeric VE ID.
VE_PRIVATE=directory
Value of this parameter is the directory in which all the files and directories specific to that VE are stored. Value must contain string $VEID, it gets substituted with actual numeric VE ID.
CONFIGFILE=name
Specified default configuration file on create action, corresponds to --config option

Any other parameter that appears in per-PE 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 VE-related parameters in per-VE configuration files.

vzctl(8), vps.conf(5).

Copyright (C) 2000-2006, SWsoft. Licensed under GNU GPL.
12 Sep 2006 OpenVZ