Oracle VM Implementation and Administration Guide

Creating Templates Manually

Creating a template manually is a very straightforward operation. In order to create a template manually, you simply save an existing virtual machine as a template. You copy the virtual machine, which must be in a stopped state, from the running_pool to the seed pool. You copy the files that make up the virtual machine—the system image, the vm.cfg file, and any other image files—to the seed_pool/<template> directory. These files are almost identical to the files found in the running_pool/<virtual machine> directory that they were created from, with the exception of the data found in the vm.cfg file. The paths of the references in this file have been changed to reflect the template’s location. In addition, the MAC address ...