Working procedure of VZ containers
EZ templates are part and parcel of the Parallels Virtuozzo Containers philosophy because theyprovide a way of sharing resources among lots of Containers, thus enabling huge savings in terms of disk space and memory. For example, when you install and cache an OS template on the Hardware Node, Parallels Virtuozzo Containers creates the /vz/template/<name_of_the_OS> directory containing all the OS files that can be shared among Containers. When a Container based on this template is created, it contains only symlinks to the OS template files. These symlinks occupy very little space on the hard disk. They are situated in the so-called private area of the Container. The corresponding directory is /vz/private/<CT_ID>. The private area of a Container contains not only symlinks to the necessary template files, but also the copy-on-write area of the Container (the area for storing the information about those changes that the Container makes to the template files; this information p...