Moving Container Within the Parallels Server

The vzmlocal utility allows you to move Containers within your server. Moving a Container within one and the same server consists in changing the Container ID and its private area and root paths. You can use vzmlocal to change the ID of the corresponding Container only or to additionally modify its private area and root path.

Let us assume that you wish to change the ID of your Container from 101 to 111 and modify its private area and root paths from /vz/private/101 to /vz/private/my_dir and from /vz/root/101 to /vz/root/ct111 , respectively. To do this, execute the following command on the server:

# vzmlocal 101:111:/vz/private/my_dir:/vz/root/ct111

Moving/copying Container#101 -> Container#111,

[/vz/private/my_dir], [/vz/root/ct111] ...

...

Successfully completed

To check if Container 101 has been successfully moved to Container 111, you can use the following commands:

# vzlist -a

CTID NPROC STATUS IP_ADDR HOSTNAME

1 43 running 10.0.10.1 localhost

111 - stopped 10.0.10.101 myContainer

# ls /vz/private

1 my_dir

# ls /vz/root

1 ct111

As can be seen from the example above, the ID of Container 101 has been changed to 111, its private area is now located in the /vz/private/my_dir directory on the server, and the path to its root directory is /vz/root/ct111 .

Notes:

1. You can perform a number of moving operations by a single invocation of the vzmlocal utility.

2. You can run the vzmlocal utility on both running and stopped Containers.