11
Jul
2026
BaseZap
Managing KVM virtual machines from the command line starts with knowing how to start, stop, restart, and list VMs using virsh. This guide covers the essential virsh commands for VM power management with real examples. How to Start a VM with Virsh To start a stopped or inactive virtual machine: virsh start <vm-name> Example: virsh […]
06
Jun
2026
BaseZap
Overview While starting a Virtuozzo/OpenVZ container, administrators may encounter an error indicating filesystem corruption within the ploop disk image. The container fails to start because the filesystem check (e2fsck) detects inconsistencies that require manual intervention. Error Message When attempting to start the container: vzctl start 38cf8886-ef92-40ad-882b-24319d5d3b The following error is displayed: Starting Container … Mount […]
06
Jun
2026
BaseZap
Problem After rebooting a Virtuozzo 7 host node, all containers failed to start with the following error: vzctl start 2030 Starting Container … Mount image: /vz/private/2030/root.hdd Container is mounted Setting permissions for image=/vz/private/2030/root.hdd vcmmd: failed to register Container: Failed to connect to VCMMD service vcmmd: failed to unregister Container: Failed to connect to VCMMD service […]
26
Apr
2024
Sudhanshu Shekhar
Virsh Useful Commands for Managing Virtual Machines Introduction Virsh is a powerful command-line utility for managing virtual machines (VMs) that are controlled by libvirt, the virtualization management library. It provides a wide range of commands to create, edit, monitor, and control VMs running on hypervisors like KVM, Xen, and more. In this blog post, we’ll […]
14
Sep
2021
BaseZap
One of the major drawback in using ploop filesystem in the virtualisation (Virtuozzo) is that the containers use more than actual use space. This keeps on increasing with time too. The space used by the container on the node disk is way more then actual data size inside container used. To reclaim the space, you […]
12
Sep
2021
Deepak
Are you moving your WordPress posts to another website and facing issues with images and featured images? In this guide, we are going to go through the steps to properly import the posts with images and featured images. Steps to Import Posts with Featured Images on WordPress: GUI method to Import Posts with Featured Images: […]
12
Sep
2021
BaseZap
Stuck with the long mail queue due to some spam and it’s taking forever to load in the WHM UI ? Well, everyone have been there once. There is a quick way to clear the mail queue from the command for WHM based servers only. Login into your server via root and run the following […]
23
Aug
2021
BaseZap
This is a guide to know on how to check your current and past server load (cpu load) for debugging purpose. System Activity Reporter (SAR) is an important tool which is used by the system admins for this in order to find out server load along with status of various metrics at different interval of […]
12
May
2021
Deepak
LVM is a tool first introduced in Fedora Linux for Logical Volume Management which allows useful feature likes allocating disks, striping, mirroring and resizing logical volumes. LVM reduces the tedious work of manual disk management on the servers and Linux systems. This guide will explain how we can create LVM using Striping I/O for more […]
03
May
2021
Deepak
FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol, it is used to transfer files from the host to the client computer or in better words we can say FTP is used to transfer files from a server to a local machine or vice-versa. In web hosting FTP plays a big role, we can update the website files […]
