Running ES on OpenVZ instance fails

[tomekkup]

After clean install on Vmware Client, ES runs successfully.

After clean install (the same Ubuntu distrib, the same ES version) on VPS running OpenVZ, ES fails on run.

After setting ES_USER to root, it starts correctly. I suppose that issue is related to sigar library and user permissions in OpenVZ.

[kimchy]

What is the failure that you get?

[tomekkup]

some ubuntu kernels on VPS blocks access to /etc/null device to non root users. that's why init script fails to run

[dedico]

Not sure if that helps -> OpenVZ has no swap and from my experience is not recommended when using Java based applications. Move to Xen, much better performance.

[kimchy]

@tomekkup you can simply remove the sigar libs, what failure are you getting?

[tomekkup]

Guys,
I already checked it out. It was a problem with VPS provider. Big beer for 'dedico' ! Never try to run any Java apps on OpenVZ