Installing OS Templates on Virtuozzo Node :

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Installing OS Templates on Virtuozzo Node :

Operating system templates are used to create new Virtual Private Servers with a pre-installed operating system. Therefore, you are bound to install at least one OS template from Virtuozzo CD 3 and/or 4 or your Virtuozzo distribution directory before creating VPS Hostings.

OS templates are located in the templates subdirectory of your Virtuozzo CD 3 and 4. You have to specify an OS template on the VPS Hosting creation, so you need to install at least one OS template. Virtuozzo templates are delivered in the standard RPM format and their installation does not differ from the installation of any other RPM package. Virtuozzo 3.0 allows you to use one of the following OS template types for the VPS Hosting creation:

1. Standard OS templates containing a set of original application files repackaged for mounting over Virtuozzo File System. Let us assume that you have not installed any OS templates during the Virtuozzo installation and have also skipped the creation of the Service VPS Hosting. So, you wish to install the redhat-as3-minimal template on the Hardware Node to create the Service VPS Hosting on its basis:

2. Log in as root and install the redhat-as3-minimal template on the Node:

# rpm –ihv templates/redhat-as3-minimal-p2-tmpl-2.6.0-6.swsoft.i386.rpm

Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1: redhat-as3-min########################################### [100%]

3. Create an archive of the pre-installed Red Hat Advanced Server 3 operating system to make the subsequent Virtual Private Server creations significantly faster. Note that it takes up to 15 minutes for vzpkgcache to archive the installation of an OS template.

# vzpkgcache
Checking: version 20040119 of redhat-as3-minimal.
Creating cache for redhat-as3-minimal/20040119
Wrote cache for redhat-as3-minimal/20040119

Note: The redhat-as3-minimal OS template is used to create the Service VPS Hosting only. You should install other OS templates on the Hardware Node to create regular Virtual Private Servers on their basis.

4. EZ OS templates providing significant technology enhancements over standard Virtuozzo templates. Before you can start using OS EZ templates to base your Virtual Private Servers on, you should perform the following operations:

* Install the OS EZ template on the Hardware Node by using the rpm -i command. For example, to install the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 OS EZ template on the Node:

# rpm -ihv templates/redhat-as4-x86-tmpl-3.0.0-1.swsoft.noarch.rpm
Preparing... ################################# [100%]
1:redhat-as4-x86-tmpl ################################# [100%]

* Cache the installed OS EZ template by using the vzpkg create cache command:

# vzpkg create cache redhat-as4-x86
...
Complete!
Packing cache file redhat-as4-x86.tar.gz ...
Cache file redhat-as4-x86.tar.gz [14M] created.

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