Demo scripts

The following demo scripts (scenarios) can be used to show advantages of OpenVZ.

Full VE lifecycle

Create VE, set IP, start, add user, enter, exec, show ps -axf output inside VE, stop, and destroy. It should take two minutes ("compare that to a time you need to deploy a new (non-virtual) server!"). During the demonstration, describe what's happening and why.

Here are the example commands needed:

# VE=123
# IP=10.1.1.123
# sed -i "/$IP /d" ~/.ssh/
# time vzctl create $VE --ostemplate fedora-core-5-i386-default
# vzctl set $VE --ipadd $IP --hostname newVE --save
# vzctl start $VE
# vzctl exec $VE ps axf
# vzctl set $VE --userpasswd guest:secret --save
# ssh guest@$IP
[newVE]# ps axf
[newVE]# logout
# vzctl stop $VE
# vzctl destroy $VE

Massive VE creation

Create/start 50 or 100 VEs in a shell loop. Shows fast deployment and high density.

Here are the example commands needed:

# VE=200
# time while [ $VE -lt 250 ]; do \
>  time vzctl create $VE --ostemplate fedora-core-5-i386-default; \
>  vzctl start $VE; \
>  let VE++; \
> done

Massive VE load

Use VEs from previous item — load those by ab or http_load. This demo shows that multiple VEs are working just fine, with low response time etc.

FIXME: commands, ab/http_load setup.

Live migration

If you have two boxes, do "vzmigrate --online" from one box to another. You can use, say, xvnc in a VE and vncclient to connect to it, then run xscreensaver-demo and while the picture is moving do a live migration. You'll show xscreensaver stalls for a few seconds but then keeps running — on another machine! That looks amazing, to say at least.

FIXME: commands, setup, vnc template.

Resource management

Below scenarios aims to show how OpenVZ resource management works.

UBC protection

fork() bomb

# while [ true ]; do \
>     while [ true ]; do \
>         echo " " > /dev/null;
>     done &
> done

dentry cache eat up

FIXME

CPU scheduler

FIXME

Disk quota

FIXME