OpenVZ not receiving static IP

I have Debian 9 with OpenVZ 6 running on it, I created my VPS like this: vzctl create 10 -- ostemplate debian-8.0-x86_64-minimal vzctl set 10 --ipadd 192.168.1.5 --save However when I start the virtual machine it has not assigned the private IP so I cannot setup nat on host machine to allow this virtual server access to the internet. This is output of ip addr from the virtual: 1: lo: mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo inet6 ::1/128 scope host valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 2: venet0: mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN link/void This is /etc/network/interfaces: auto lo iface lo inet loopback OpenVZ should configure this file because on my old machine with Debian 7 and debian 7 VPS this file is automatically configured by the OpenVZ manager so everytime VPS restarts it gets new configuration according to what this container has in OpenVZ configuration. I need this process to be automatic, sure I can config this manually but thats not what I need. EDIT: When I tried debian 7 template, everything works just fine, so I guess there is problem only with Debian 8 templates that are not getting auto configured by OpenVZ. However debian 7 is very old and I need at least Debian 8 containers. EDIT 2: This message appears when I try to set IP to Debian 8 container: vzctl set 10 --ipadd 192.168.1.11 --save UB limits were set successfully Adding IP address(es): 192.168.1.11 main: line 710: /etc/init.d/network: No such file or directory CT configuration saved to /etc/vz/conf/10.conf