Dear All,
I want to create a CentOS 7 VMWARE VM. I need to install various Runtime libraries, e.g., Tomcat, into the VM. Once all looks good, then I want to make a Custom Image of the entire VM. Later I want to load this Custom Image to a physical HW, so that I don’t need to go through all kinds Runtime installation. Does anyone know how to handle creating a Custom Image and Load to physical HW process? How does boot loader work when VM vs Physical HW has different devices?
Thank you,
- Xinhuan
On Thu, 2020-05-14 at 19:47 +0000, Xinhuan Zheng wrote:
Dear All,
I want to create a CentOS 7 VMWARE VM. I need to install various Runtime libraries, e.g., Tomcat, into the VM. Once all looks good, then I want to make a Custom Image of the entire VM. Later I want to load this Custom Image to a physical HW, so that I don’t need to go through all kinds Runtime installation. Does anyone know how to handle creating a Custom Image and Load to physical HW process? How does boot loader work when VM vs Physical HW has different devices?
I created a custom ISO a couple of years ago [0], you can use it as your base of one of the following links[1-4], should be sufficient to get you started.
[0] https://github.com/EarlRamirez/snipeit_iso [1] https://gist.github.com/vkanevska/fd624f708cde7d7c172a576b10bc6966 [2] https://blog.mousetech.com/creating-a-functional-custom-centos-install-dvd/ [3] https://serverfault.com/questions/517908/how-to-create-a-custom-iso-image-in... [4] https://www.golinuxhub.com/2017/05/how-to-create-customized-bootable-boot.ht...
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Xinhuan Zheng