Configuring NFS on VMs ====================== KVM VMs ------- KVM virtual machines are complete virtualized machines, so configuration for NFS is as for a standalone machine. General instructions for Ubuntu are available at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SettingUpNFSHowTo The actual process followed:: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install nfs-common sudo nano /etc/default/nfs-common sudo mkdir /mnt/nfs sudo mount -t nfs nfsserver:/share_path /mnt/nfs OpenVZ VMs ---------- OpenVZ VMs are not complete VMs so there are some differences in how NFS is configured. Notes on OpenVZ NFS setup are at: http://wiki.openvz.org/NFS