#### EZ Templates Overview

In respect of their functionality and behaviour, EZ templates are identical to Virtuozzo standard templates, i.e. they also provide a way of sharing resources among lots of Containers by making use of Virtuozzo File System (VZFS) and thus enabling huge savings in terms of disk space and memory. However, EZ templates demonstrate a number of distinctive features as compared to their counterpart:

- Important: The EZ templates technology allows you to use the original OS vendor's packages and to receive the updated RPM packages from a central repository right after their release without having to wait until they are packaged into templates by Parallels and delivered to you.
- EZ templates do not carry all the necessary package files inside themselves. They contain only information about what packages should be installed on the Hardware Node to make the templates fully operational and from what network repository these packages should be downloaded.
- The dependencies of RPM packages included in an EZ template are automatically resolved during the packages installation on the Hardware Node. So, if the specified RPMs require other packages to be installed, these packages are also downloaded from the repository and installed on the Node. In case an RPM package has requirements that conflict with existing software on the Node or any dependencies for the package being installed cannot be satisfied, the RPM installation process fails without making any changes to the system.

Note: You can find more information on the EZ templates in the Virtuozzo User's Guide Version 3.0.

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