[Mashiro]

Sorry about the issue with the link. It should have worked as it was the direct share link to a post but somehow it didn't.

*scratching head* Duh.

Try the following one instead https://stackoverflow.com/a/20357035 or this one https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2035...-not-found (go to the second post that is marked as the solution). Both are two different links to the post with the answer to the same issue but with a different application.



I believe that you cannot upgrade to either Debian 9, Ubuntu 18 or anything newer on OpenVZ. The OpenVZ kernel is so old that it has become widely incompatible with the base of modern Linux distributions such as gcc/libc and other packages that are the real foundation of the distribution together with the kernel.

You can attempt to perform a dist-upgrade from Debian 8 to 9 or from Ubuntu 16 to 18 but I still don't recommend it. Prepare to request a reinstallation of your VPS. It will most likely not work after performing the dist-upgrade.

There are NO OFFICIAL Debian 9, Ubuntu 17 or Ubuntu 18 templates for OpenVZ legacy because these OSs are not compatible! So if I were you I wouldn't attempt to do a dist-upgrade. Having no official OS template for OpenVZ legacy speaks a lot for itself. See here for a list of official OSs for OpenVZ legacy: https://wiki.openvz.org/Download/template/precreated

In fact, this year (Nov 2019) OpenVZ legacy (OpenVZ based on RHEL 6 with 2.6.32 kernel) is reaching its EOL status (End of Life). This means no support, no updates and no further development of OpenVZ legacy. So no newer OSs will be working on OpenVZ 6! No new Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS or other Linux distributions. See here for OpenVZ lifecycle and support status: https://wiki.openvz.org/Releases


I admit it is sad to say but owning and still selling OpenVZ legacy VPSs in 2019 is a sad and irresponsible thing. The technology is simply obsolete. Despite the fact that the 2.6.32 kernel for OpenVZ has been updated and developed it is still far far behind nowadays kernels. And it is impossible to merge all the features into such an old kernel.


CentOS 7 is a official OpenVZ legacy distribution. Maybe you can try it? It is still the latest OpenVZ version that receives support by the CentOS community and RHEL.