| How To Build An Effective Virtual Machine Template |
| Friday, 31 March 2006 by Michel Roth | |||
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Many people have been asking for some tips on how to build a VMware Workstation Virtual Machine. The following guide has been written with the assumption that this will be the first Virtual Machine you will be configuring, and that you will be creating this as a ‘template’ Virtual Machine. A ‘template Virtual Machine, will be a Virtual Machine, configured by you, which will be prepared for rapid deployment of additional Virtual Machines. ‘Rapid Deployment’ means being able to deploy a new pre-configured virtual machine in 10 to 15 minutes. An assumption will be made that you have the current version of VMware Workstation (as of this writing, version 5.5.1 build 19175) installed on your workstation. It will also be assumed that you understand how to install and configure Windows XP Professional, as this will be the operating system configured as the ‘template.’ You will step through the process of: Creating the first Virtual Machine Making changes to the configuration file relating to that Virtual Machine Installation of the operating system Installation of VMware Tools Patching the operating system Cleanup of the Virtual Machine’s hard drive Use of the Microsoft Sysprep Utility Additional cleanup of the Virtual Machine’s configuration Cleanup of the directory where the Virtual Machine’s files exist Creating an archive/zip file of the Virtual Machine Creating a Virtual Machine from the archive Read more here.
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