User`s guide

Operations on Virtual Machines and Containers 26

Creating a Virtual Machine and

Container

This section explains how to create a new Parallels virtual machine and Container. The options

you should pass to this command differ depending on whether you want to create a virtual

machine or Container.

Creating a Container

To create a Container, you can use the pctl create command. This command requires the

following parameters:

Argument Description

Container ID A numeric ID associated with a Container (101, 403, and so on). The

Container ID should be an integer greater than 100 and unique for a

given Parallels server.

OS template name The name of the OS template to base your Container on. Parallels

Server Bare Metal is shipped with a number of ready-to-use OS

templates. To find out the names of the available templates, use the

vzpkg list -O command.

For the list of operating systems you can run in your virtual

machines and Containers, see Supported Guest Operating Systems

(p. 28).

nfiguration file The name of the sample configuration file that will be used for

setting all the Container resource control parameters. The sample

configuration files are residing in the /etc/vz/conf directory on

the physical server and have names with the following mask: ve-

<configname>.conf-sample. The most commonly used

sample is the ve-basic.conf-sample file. This sample file has

resource control parameters suitable for most Containers.

Thus, for example, you can create a new Container by executing the following command:

# pctl create 101 --ostemplate fedora-core-9-x86 -–config basic

Creating Container private area (fedora-core-9-x86)

...

Container private area was created

In this case Parallels Server Bare Metal will create a Container with ID 101, the Fedora 9 OS

installed inside, and the configuration parameters taken from the ve-basic.conf-sample

sample configuration file.

Note: For more information on options you can pass to pctl create when creating

Containers, see the Parallels Command Line Reference Guide.

Creating a Virtual Machine

The process of creating a new virtual machine includes the following steps: