When developers receive testing results, look at bug reports, or discuss technical issues, they may need ask you to submit the detailed information about configuration of your computer. This report includes things such things as: the type of CPU, the kind of memory, and other important hardware specifications. Adding your 'quick link' from here reduces the time which would be wasted if they need ask you to post up additional information, then you getting it and posting it up. It is much faster if you include your link in the bug report/discussion at the beginning. If they do not need it, they need not click on the link.Make sure your hardware is healthy before OpenVZ testing, see [[Hardware testing]] for details.

FIXME: describe how to gather hardware information * Install these three applications (from the trusted standard Ubuntu repositories)this application:

* Add the output to [http://pastebin.org pastebin] service or create a [https://gist.github.com gist] and add a link to it to at the TOP '''top''' of the below table below. This [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chilicuil/learn/master/python/pastebin Python script] may be helpful. 

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|sergeyb@[[User:Sergey Bronnikov]]|-|Dell|PowerEdge R510|Rackmount Server|[http://www.montanalinux.org/files/specs-openvz3-cs-montana-edu.txt dmidecode output]|Scott Dowdle