Wondering how to enable Netfilter for OpenVZ in SolusVM? We can help you.

We can perform this directly from the OpenVZ node.

As part of our Server Management Services, we assist our customers with several SolusVM queries.

Today, let us see how our Support Engineers enable the Netfilter module for our customers.

Enable Netfilter for OpenVZ in SolusVM

Generally, it is not possible to perform this via the SolusVM interface. However, we can do this directly on the OpenVZ node.

Moving ahead, let us see how our Support Techs go about enabling Netfilter in a few and easy steps.

The steps are as follows:

1. Initially, we connect to SolusVM OpenVZ node over SSH.

2. After that, we stop the required container:

vzctl stop VMID

We can find the VMID of a container from, SolusVM > Virtual Servers > VMID column:

3. Once complete, we need to enable the Netfilter:

vzctl set VMID –netfilter full –save

4. Finally, we go ahead and start the container:

vzctl start VMID

Conclusion

In short, we saw how our Support Techs go ahead and enable the Netfilter module in SolusVM.