How to enable SSHFS on openvz

• SSHFS ( SSH filesystem)  is a filesystem client to mount and interact with files and directories, located in remote server .

• The client interact with the remote filesytem  via SSH File transfer protocol for file access, file transfer and file management.

Here are the steps on how to enable SSHFS in VPS

First of all , download and install fuse from http://fuse.sourceforge.net/

#  wget http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/project/fuse/fuse-2.X/2.8.7/fuse-2.8.7.tar.gz

#  tar –xzvf  fuse-2.8.7.tar.gz

#  cd fuse-2.8.7

# ./configure

#  make

#  make install

# echo '/usr/local/lib' > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/fuse.conf

#  ldconfig

Grab SSHFS from http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html and wget the stable latest version:

# wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse/files/sshfs-fuse/2.4/sshfs-fuse-2.4.tar.gz

# tar –xvzf sshfs-fuse-2.4.tar.gz

# cd sshfs-fuse-2.4

# yum install glib2-devel

# ./configure

#  make

# make install

This is how the fuse and SSHFS are installed in the container. After finishing this, enable fuse access to the container from the Hardware node.

Note : HN refers to the hardware node and $VEID refers to corresponding container ID

Do the steps in the Hardware node:

( HN )  #   vzctl set $VEID --devices c:10:229:rw –save

( HN )  #    vzctl exec $ VEID  mknod /dev/fuse c 10 229