Linux Templates

SUDO installation is required for the VMware Linux templates.

  • Connect to vCenter
  • Create a virtual machine using a New Virtual Server wizard.
  • Open VS settings and attach ISO with OS
  • Install OS on this VS
  • Install VMware tools inside the VS by following the VMware instructions. (This step is required!)
  • Make sure that Perl is installed on this VS. (This step is required!)

  • Make sure that the network service is enabled and the NetworkManager service is disabled before converting a CentOS VS to template:

    chkconfig NetworkManager --levels 2345 off
chkconfig network --levels 2345 on
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  • Select your VS > Template > Clone to Template

After this, add the record manually to the OnApp templates table. For example:

      label: CentOS 6.4
      created_at: 2015-03-31 10:06:44
      updated_at: 2015-03-31 10:06:44
      version: 1.0
      file_name: centos-6.4-x64-1.0-vmware.ova
      operating_system: linux
      operating_system_distro: centos
      allowed_swap: 1
      state: active
      checksum: NULL
      allow_resize_without_reboot: NULL
      min_disk_size: 5
      user_id: NULL
      template_size: 0
      allowed_hot_migrate: 0
      operating_system_arch: NULL
      operating_system_edition: NULL
      operating_system_tail: NULL
      parent_template_id: NULL
      virtualization: vcenter
      min_memory_size: NULL
      disk_target_device: NULL
      cdn: 0
      backup_server_id: NULL
      ext4: 0
      smart_server: 0
      baremetal_server: 0
      initial_password: NULL
      initial_username: NULL
      remote_id: NULL
      manager_id: NULL
      resize_without_reboot_policy: --- {}
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Where: 
file_name - is the template's name. The template file name (file_name) must match the letter case of a VMware template label in the vCenter. 
initial_password and initial_username - are the login and password set during the vCenter VS creation.

  • OnApp supports templates with not more than one disk.
  • Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 templates are not supported since 6.0 Patch 9.
  • To be able to use Ubuntu templates later than 9 version for VMware virtual server creation, you need to remove the absolute pathnames in /etc/pam.d/vmtoolsd file. For example: /lib/security/pam_unix.so > pam_unix.so

Example for CentOS

insert into templates (id,label,created_at,updated_at,version,file_name,operating_system,operating_system_distro,allowed_swap,state,checksum, allow_resize_without_reboot,min_disk_size,template_size,allowed_hot_migrate,operating_system_arch,operating_system_edition,operating_system_tail,virtualization, min_memory_size,disk_target_device,cdn,backup_server_id,ext4,initial_password) values ('','CentOS 5.8 vmware','','','1.0','CentOSTemplate','linux','centos','0','active','','0','10','0','1','','','','vcenter','128','','0',NULL,'0','');
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