Openmediavault installation on my VPS within an OpenVZ container : filesystem issue

  • Hi,



    I have installed OMV on my virtual private server (bought at weloveservers.com) that runs a Debian 7 within one OpenVZ container.


    I had a few trouble completing the installation but thanks to that forum I managed to go through common issues such as missing dependencies, apache2 / Nging conflict and in the end missing DNS address to be added manually.


    It now works fine, and the behaviour of OMV is the same as the one I have on my local NAS. However, I am stuck with a crucial item to really make use of it : impossible to find any filesystem and then, impossible to deploy any of the services that require a volume field.


    I am pretty sure it is linked with the openVZ container; I read quite a lot of documentations around the internet, but no actual lead to find a solution.


    A bit more information about my conf :
    "fdisk -l" does not return anything (not even an error message !)
    "df" command line returns the following :


    Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
    /dev/simfs 62914560 1984476 60930084 4% /
    none 1048576 4 1048572 1% /dev
    tmpfs 1048576 108 1048468 1% /tmp
    none 209716 1368 208348 1% /run
    none 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock
    none 922620 4 922616 1% /run/shm
    none 102400 0 102400 0% /run/user




    Any chance some of you already solved that ?


    Thanks a lot in advance,



    PS : Please, apologize if my explanations are poor; I am a linux newbie, and I must say that I do not know anything about openVZ except that it is not "classic" virtualization tool...

  • You need to hook up a loop device to /dev/sdX if you want to get a data disk into OpenMediaVault.


    http://superuser.com/questions…d-drive-to-occupy-dev-sdb


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  • Arg still stuck since loop device is not supported by openVZ.


    I know that FUSE is supported.


    Any other clue ? Do you think that mounting a local filesystem through sshfs would be possible ? I tried it so far but without sucess.


    Does anyone have a suggestion ? I may not be the first one to try to install OMV on a hosted openVZ VPS ;)


    Thanks again

  • I may not be the first one to try to install OMV on a hosted openVZ VPS


    Installing OMV on a VPS is like saying I want to install Windows on my TV... Not much people would do that.


    Greetings
    David

    "Well... lately this forum has become support for everything except omv" [...] "And is like someone is banning Google from their browsers"


    Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

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  • agreed ....


    but still, there should be a way to get it !!


    And is it possible to force the creation of the path while manually modifying the config.xml. When I look at it, I still have the uuid field to be filled in, which again does not exist in my case with the openVZ container...

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