I bought VPS on OpenVZ virtualization and enabled Debian guest OS. Guest /boot dir is empty. /etc/inittab is empty. How is the OS initialization process performed? What is the meaning of reboot for OpenVZ container? Answer After research I clone vzctl tool as main job about starting/stopping done here: vzctl uses libvzctl where you can find https://github.com/OpenVZ/libvzctl/blob/master/lib/env.c#L783: Stop done by