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System images and cloud instances

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System images and cloud instances

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- [Male] How you initially create a VM, depends a lot on the type of virtualization you implement, as well as the scale in which you deploy. Creating one virtual machine, in a type 2 hypervisor like VirtualBox, is quite easy. You download the ISO image, create the VM, start the VM, and select the ISO image, and then install. It's not different than installing on a physical machine, however, imagine for a moment that you need to create 1000 VMs. Installing each, one at a time, interactively is not practical. The simplest way to install another VM, exactly the same as the first one, is to use a Kickstart file if you're on Red Hat, a Preseed file on Debian, or an AutoYaST file on SUSE. These will allow you to automate the install. These files either tell the installer what to do, or they answer questions that the installer would've asked a user. Either way, they allow for limited to no interaction during an install. The…

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