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Managing EZ Templates
Preparing OS EZ Templates for Creating
Containers
OS EZ templates are used to create Containers on their basis. However, before you can use an OS
EZ template for creating a Container, you need to do the following:
1 Install the OS EZ template on the Node.
2 Cache the installed OS EZ template.
To install a new OS EZ template on the Node, you can use the vzpkg install template
command. For example, to install the CentOS 5 OS EZ template, you can run this command:
# vzpkg install template centos-5-x86-ez-4.7.0-3.noarch.rpm
Preparing... ################################# [100%]
1:centos-5-x86 ################################# [100%]
# vzpkg list
centos-5-x86
As you see, the centos-5-x86 EZ template is now installed on the Node. The corresponding
path is /vz/template/centos/5. However, before you can start using the centos-5-x86 EZ
template as a basis for creating Containers, you need to cache it. This can be done wiht the vzpkg
create cache command:
Note: To cache an OS EZ template, you may need first to set up a package repository for the template.
For example, you have to build a special repository for all commercial versions of the Linux distributions
(e.g., Red Hat Linux Enterprise 4 or 5). Detailed information on managing package repositories is
provided in the Setting Up Repositories and Proxy Servers for EZ Templates section (p. 27).
# vzpkg create cache centos-5-x86
...
Complete!
Packing cache file centos-5-x86.tar.gz ...
Cache file centos-5-x86.tar.gz [14M] created.
The created tar archive is put to the /vz/template/cache directory on the Node:
# ls /vz/template/cache
centos-5-x86.tar.gz
Now you can use the centos-5-x86 EZ template for creating Containers. Detailed information on
how to create Containers on the basis of OS EZ templates is provided in the Parallels Virtuozzo
Containers 4.7 User's Guide.