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Viewing OS Template Properties

The properties of OS templates are slightly different depending on whether it is a standard Virtuozzo OS template or an EZ template.

The description of the selected OS template is given at the top of the page, after which the Summary section provides additional details on the template:

Field Name

Description

Type

Denotes if it is a standard or an EZ Virtuozzo template. Standard templates carry all the necessary package files inside themselves and have versions. EZ templates have only information about the necessary packages, and the packages themselves are downloaded from a central repository. EZ templates don't have versions.

Version

The latest version of the OS template available for installation. Applicable to standard Virtuozzo templates only, because EZ templates do not have versions.

Linux Cached

If the template is cached on a particular Node, new Containers can be created on its basis on this Node.

Architecture

The microprocessor architecture.

Platform

Denotes the operating system the template is intended for.

Supported technologies

Lists the technologies that the Hardware Node must support for the template to work correctly. For more information see the description of the TECHNOLOGIES parameter in the Container Configuration File subsection of Parallels Virtuozzo Containers Reference Guide.

The Added to Containers table at the bottom of the page enumerates those Containers that were created on the basis of the current OS template.

If you are going to cache the template, remember that, first, packages "included" in an EZ template are, actually, meta data pointing to what real packages and from what repository can be downloaded to the Node to make the template work. Second, to be used for creating Containers on its basis, any OS template has to be cached. Caching an OS template is preparing it for creating Containers on its basis. When you cache an OS template, you:

If the template has already been cached, clicking the Cache Template icon launches updating the cached templates.

Linux If, before doing anything, you want to see what packages the OS template includes, open the Included Packages tab.

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