Cpanel Supported Virtual Environments.
KVM
Linux-VServer
Microsoft Server® 2008 Hyper-V
OpenVZ (stable releases only)
Oracle VM VirtualBox, VirtualBox OSE
Virtuozzo™
VMware® Server, VMware® ESX Server
Xen, XenEnterprise™, XenExpress™, XenServer™
cPanel does not support VPS licenses for the FreeBSD operating system.
cPanel does not support 32-bit Virtual Environments that run on a 64-bit host kernel.
cPanel supports the drivers and configurations provided by Microsoft.
Cpanel supported virtual environments and supported operating systems
Supported Virtual Environments1, 2
KVM
Linux-VServer
Microsoft Server® 2008 Hyper-V3
OpenVZ (stable releases only)
Oracle VM VirtualBox, VirtualBox OSE
Virtuozzo™
VMware® Server, VMware® ESX Server
Xen, XenEnterprise™, XenExpress™, XenServer™
Supported Operating Systems
(i386 and x86-64 ONLY)
CentOS versions 4.x, 5.x
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® versions 4.x, 5.x
FreeBSD®-RELEASE versions 7.3, 8.0, 8.1
cPanel does not support VPS licenses for the FreeBSD operating system.
cPanel does not support 32-bit Virtual Environments that run on a 64-bit host kernel.
cPanel supports the drivers and configurations provided by Microsoft.
Reference: http://cpanel.net/
VNC ( Virtual Network Computing )
Installing the required packages
Make sure to install a window manager in order to get a normal GUI desktop.
yum groupinstall “GNOME Desktop Environment”
to install the Gnome Desktop and requirements, for example.
The server package is called ‘vnc-server’. Run the command
VNC is used to display an X windows session running on another computer. Unlike a remote X connection, the xserver is running on the remote computer, not on your local workstation. Your workstation ( Linux or Windows ) is only displaying a copy of the display ( real or virtual ) that is running on the remote machine.
If the server is not installed, install it with the command:
The client program is ‘vnc’. You can use the command
Enabling User/Group Quota for virtual private server that already exists.
If the virtual private server already exists, run the following command to set the parameter:
vzctl set 101 –quotaugidlimit 150 –save
Where, 101 is the VPS ID number.
Restart the virtual private server.
File permissions for virtual pop inboxes in DirectAdmin
Any domains that you want to use for email (eg: mydomain.com) must be in both the /etc/virtual/domains file and the /etc/virtual/domainowners file.
The directory /etc/virtual/mydomain.com must exist and the files /etc/virtual/mydomain.com/passwd and /etc/virtual/mydomain.com/aliases exist.
File permissions for virtual pop inboxes should be the following below but not applicable with Dovecot/Maildir:
/var/spool/virtual/domain.com 770 username:mail
/var/spool/virtual/domain.com/* 660 username:mail
