Installation guide

Templates Overview

Non-base OS EZ template sets should have their own names and are created by appending a

random identifier to the base OS EZ template name. For example, if you wish your Container to

run Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and to function as a Linux-based server only, you can create the

redhat-el5-x86-server OS EZ template set and include only those packages in it that are

needed for performing main server tasks. So, you can specify packages to be used for setting

up file and print sharing and exclude all the packages for graphical interfaces (GNOME and

KDE).

Parallels Virtuozzo Containers provides you with a vzpkg tool allowing you to automatically locate

and obtain the correct packages for your EZ templates from package repositories. The packages

are downloaded from the repository and installed on the Hardware Node in one of the following

cases:

• when creating a cache for an OS EZ template

• when updating an existing OS EZ template cache (if there are new packages available in the

repository)

• when adding an application EZ template or package to the first Container

• when updating EZ templates or software packages inside a destination Container

Note: Detailed information on how to manage software package repositories is provided in the Setting

Up Repositories for EZ Templates section (p. 27).