Steve Wray wrote: > Kir Kolyshkin wrote: >> See vzctl set --name >> > > Well thats a nice start. > > Now, to follow on from that great progress, how do I get it so that > the directory where the root filesystem lives corresponds to the name > I set instead of the numeric VEID? No standard way.
I guess you can create a symlink; something like this: vzctl set $VEID --name $VENAME --save (cd /vz/root && ln -s $VEID $VENAME) Same for /vz/private if you need it. > > Thanks! > > >> Steve Wray wrote: >> >>> Hi there, >>> I'm a long time user of Xen virtualisation and have been evaluating >>> OpenVZ as a replacement for certain applications. >>> >>> OpenVZ appears to be technically superior under certain conditions and >>> I hope to iron out the issues that I have come across. >>> >>> The main issue confronting me at this time is scalability of >>> management; OpenVZ may scale well with respect to performance and >>> resource usage but at this time I don't see it scaling well when it >>> comes to management of virtual machines. >>> >>> I am sure that I must be missing something obvious since its a pretty >>> basic issue. I've searched extensively for some info on this but found >>> nothing. >>> >>> The problem? >>> >>> Numeric rather than symbolic identification of virtual machines. >>> >>> When I start a domU (a Xen virtual machine) in Xen I direct 'xm >>> create' at the config file the name of which corresponds to the name >>> of that domU. >>> >>> When I list currently running machines in Xen I see a listing of the >>> names of the Xen domUs and their corresponding numeric IDs. >>> >>> When I create a logical volume for a Xen domU I create that volume >>> based on the name of the corresponding Xen instance. >>> >>> In each case I try to ensure consistency by making the names of the >>> Xen domUs correspond to the hostnames of the servers which those domUs >>> are running. Host foo is on the domU named foo and is in a logical >>> volume named foo. To start domU foo I run 'xm create >>> /etc/xen/domains/foo.conf'. This scales well and makes things very >>> nice and obvious. >>> >>> OpenVZ seems to do away with symbolic names referring in all instances >>> to numeric ids, a bit like not using DNS but putting an IP address >>> into a URL. >>> >>> I have an awful feeling that when the pager goes off at 2am the person >>> on call, bleary-eyed and tired, will make some horrible mistake when >>> trying to mentally map numeric identifiers to server hostnames. This >>> is what I mean by 'not scaling well'. Use of numeric identifiers may >>> work ok when there is only one or two, but when there may be a dozen >>> things will get out of hand. >>> >>> I am sure that there must be a way to use symbolic names instead of >>> numbers in OpenVZ but I can't for the life of me find out how. >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > https://openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] https://openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users
