[BlueOnyx:05484] Re: Issue with BO installation on OpenVZ

[Michael Stauber]

Hi James,

> With a VPS install, at least with mine, the BO UI doesn't actually allow me
> to change the name.  It's a display-only field.

That's correct. BlueOnyx is custom tailored to detect if it runs as VPS on 
OpenVZ. If so, certain functionality is added, removed or altered to make sure 
that it behaves and works best inside the OpenVZ container.

One of the things it does is to prevent to change the network information 
under "System Settings" / "TCP/IP", as that change would never be permanent, 
because on every VPS restart OpenVZ would reset this info anyway and would use 
the info from the containers config file instead.

In the BlueOnyx OpenVZ OS template we have a couple of CCE handlers that are 
usually not present on a stand alone install of BlueOnyx, because they're only 
needed inside a VPS on OpenVZ.

The constructor 
/usr/sausalito/constructor/base/solarspeed/01_vbq_network_init.pl for example 
will check the VPS's FQDN and IP address (among other things) and will store 
them in the CODBs "System" object.

Check if you have this file. 

If you have it:
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In that case check your /etc/vz/conf/<VPSID>.conf of that container on your 
master node and make sure that the config file of that VPS has the desired 
host- and domainname.

If you don't have it:
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Then your OpenVZ VPS of BlueOnyx is missing the RPM "nuonce-solarspeed-vbq-
constructors", which you should be able to fetch either through YUM, or which 
you can directly download here:

http://vbq.solarspeed.net/pub/BlueOnyx/5106R/CentOS5/blueonyx/i386/RPMS/nuonce-
solarspeed-vbq-constructors-1.0.4-1.noarch.rpm

If you cannot get it through YUM, you may also be missing this RPM:

http://vbq.solarspeed.net/pub/BlueOnyx/5106R/CentOS5/blueonyx/i386/RPMS/solarspeed-
virtual-5106R-repo-1.0.2-SOL1.i386.rpm

However, in that case I'd wonder where you got your BlueOnyx OS template vor 
OpenVZ from, because then it wasn't one that I built. :o)


-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber