[Users] Create Ubuntu Environment

[Scott Dowdle]

Greetings,

----- Original Message -----
> Running 7 Beta 3 and can’t for the life of me figure out how to
> create a instance based on Ubuntu 14.10 x64. I ran yum install
> ubuntu-14.10-x86_64-ez.noarch which completed but can’t create with
> the prlctl command. How would I add templates / create?

prlctl create {ctid} --vmtype ct --ostemplate ubuntu-14.04-x86_64

The first time you create a container from an EZ template you haven't used before, it'll build it by downloading all of the packages, extracting them to a build directory, and then compressing that into a disk image... and that is added to the OS Template cache... from which it creates your new container from.  Subsquent container creations will see it the ready-to-use OS Template in the cache dir... although you can refresh the OS Template wheneve desired as new updates appear.

OpenVZ operated the same way in the first couple of years... but vzpkg bitrotted with changes in Python and got discontinued.

After the container is created then you can prlctl set whatever config parameters you need.

TYL,
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Scott Dowdle
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