Installing vzdump for OpenVZ on CentOS
There are a few items required for installing vzdump for OpenVZ on CentOS.
First, you’ll need an MTA – I suggest making sure you have postfix installed; if you have postfix installed the initial RPM requirement for “MTA” will be handled for you. Next, you’ll need cstream. This installation is slightly more tricky because (as far as I know) there is no real way to gain this from yum unless you use the DAG Wieers repo. Also, depending on what you have already installed you will likely need the Simple Locking file I/O library for Perl.
Here is how you get vzdump on a clean version of CentOS (via the hostnode):
rpm -ivh "ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/pub/dag/redhat/el5/en/x86_64/RPMS.dag/cstream-2.7.4-3.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm" wget http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/perl-LockFile-Simple/perl-LockFile-Simple-0.206-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm rpm -ivh perl-LockFile-Simple-0.206-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm /bin/rm perl-LockFile-Simple-0.206-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm rpm -ivh "http://www.proxmox.com/cms_proxmox/cms/upload/vzdump/vzdump-1.2-4.noarch.rpm"
Since version 1.2-4 of vzdump the location of the modules is not “automatic” and have found it necessary to export the location of the PVE libraries that vzdump requires via this command:
export PERL5LIB=/usr/share/perl5/
All said and done there has to be a better way to do this… anyone… anyone??
pwelectronic said
November 25 2009 @ 8:04 am
how to do what export PERL5LIB=/usr/share/perl5/ don’t need passt manualy avery time after reboot?
Dan L said
November 30 2009 @ 11:49 am
Thanks for this, I’ve been needing vzdump for a little bit now but couldn’t get the time to troubleshoot it’s library issues.
That export line was the fix.
It is sad, but hey… it can be tossed into the /etc/profile at the end, then the variable will always be there.
Joseph said
January 20 2010 @ 3:02 am
Also you can create softlinks in corresponding directory like this:
# ln -s /usr/share/perl5/PVE /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi -f
It works well in RHEL4/5, I’m trying to document it on my tiny site planet.admon.org