Overview of virtual machines creation
Once you have deployed your XenServer infrastructure, you can start creating virtual machines (VMs).
Virtual machines can be created in different ways:
- Using VM templates
- Converting a physical machine to virtual
- Importing an exported VM
- Cloning an existing VM
We will introduce them here and discuss them in depth later in the chapter.
Using VM templates
Virtual machines are prepared from templates. A template is a virtual machine encapsulated into a file, making it possible to rapidly deploy new VMs. Each template contains installation metadata—the setup information needed to create a new VM with a specific guest operating system, and with the optimum storage, CPU, memory, and virtual network configuration.
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