For quite some time, I have been happy user of OpenVZ virtualization. And for almost same amount of time, I have been writing vz-tools, a set of few utilities to make work with OpenVZ a joy:
- vz-optimize.pl was written first, and it tries to intelligently increase beancounter limits for VE until there is some requires left for virtual machine.
Best usage would be to run some kind of stress-test on your VE, and then re-run vz-optimize.pl afterwards to allocate enough resources for VE. - vz-create.pl is second useful tool which will create new VE from upstream Debian mirror and tweak it a bit (the way I like it)
- vz-clone.pl is latest addition to set of tools and it allows to create temporary clone of virtual machine for testing (of upgrades?) or QA
While those tools work well for me, they don't have much error checking, and most of parameters in them are actually hard-coded. Since, I am having presentation about virtualization on Linux on HrOUG this year, I will probably improve this tools a bit more.
However, I'm not quite sure if this tools would be of general use to somebody else. If it is, please drop me a note, and I would love to improve them a bit more...