How to mount a samba share inside an OpenVZ container? cifs/smbfs is not virtualized therefor the mount command won't work and you can't just mount a samba share inside a container:

mount -t cifs [sambashare] [mountpoint]

this will result in a failure:

mount error: cifs filesystem not supported by the system
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

Sometimes it happen that yum generates the error "error: no dbpath has been set" within your VPS. One thing that might solve the problem is to (re)create the special character devices /dev/random and /dev/urandom which provide an interface to the kernel's random number generator. File /dev/random has major device number 1 and minor device number 8. File /dev/urandom has major device number 1 and minor device number 9.

Unable to open pty: No such file or directory is a well know message when you try to enter the VPS from the hardwarenode using vzctl enter VEID. It is related to udev. To fix this issue edit the file /etc/rc.sysinit of the container:

A brief installation guide how to install OpenVZ. I recommend to use a separate partition for the containers and to use the filesystemtype EXT3 for it. I asume you have CentOS allready running and yum is available.

First we need to setup the OpenVZ repository. As root type: