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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>10.4. Creating VMs</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="Common_Content/css/default.css" /><link rel="stylesheet" media="print" href="Common_Content/css/print.css" type="text/css" /><meta name="generator" content="publican 2.8" /><meta name="package" content="Apache_CloudStack-Admin_Guide-4.0.0-incubating-en-US-1-" /><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="CloudStack Administrator's Guide" /><link rel="up" href="virtual-machines.html" title="Chapter 10. Working With Virtual Machines" /><link rel="prev" href="vm-lifecycle.html" title="10.3. VM Lifecycle" /><link rel="next" href="accessing-vms.html" title="10.5. Accessing VMs" /></head><body><p id="title"><a class="left" href="http://cloudstack.org"><img src="Common_Content/images/image_left.png" alt="Product Site" /></a><a class="right" href="http://docs.cloudstack.org"><img src="Common_Content/images/image_right.png" alt="Documentation Site" /></a></p><ul class="docnav"><li class="previous"><a accesskey="p" href="vm-lifecycle.html"><strong>Prev</strong></a></li><li class="next"><a accesskey="n" href="accessing-vms.html"><strong>Next</strong></a></li></ul><div xml:lang="en-US" class="section" id="creating-vms" lang="en-US"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" id="creating-vms">10.4. Creating VMs</h2></div></div></div><div class="para">
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Virtual machines are usually created from a template. Users can also create blank virtual machines. A blank virtual machine is a virtual machine without an OS template. Users can attach an ISO file and install the OS from the CD/DVD-ROM.
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To create a VM from a template:
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Log in to the CloudStack UI as an administrator or user.
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In the left navigation bar, click Instances.
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Click Add Instance.
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Select a template, then follow the steps in the wizard. (For more information about how the templates came to be in this list, see Working with Templates.
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Be sure that the hardware you have allows starting the selected service offering.
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Click Submit and your VM will be created and started.
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</div><div class="note"><div class="admonition_header"><h2>Note</h2></div><div class="admonition"><div class="para">
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For security reason, the internal name of the VM is visible only to the root admin.
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</div></div></div></li></ol></div><div class="note"><div class="admonition_header"><h2>Note</h2></div><div class="admonition"><div class="para">
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Starting with v3.0.3, you can create a VM without starting it. You can determine whether the VM needs to be started as part of the VM deployment. A new request parameter, startVM, is introduced in the deployVm API to support this feature. For more information, see the Developer's Guide
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To create a VM from an ISO:
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</div><div class="note"><div class="admonition_header"><h2>Note</h2></div><div class="admonition"><div class="para">
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(XenServer) Windows VMs running on XenServer require PV drivers, which may be provided in the template or added after the VM is created. The PV drivers are necessary for essential management functions such as mounting additional volumes and ISO images, live migration, and graceful shutdown.
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Log in to the CloudStack UI as an administrator or user.
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In the left navigation bar, click Instances.
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Click Add Instance.
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Select ISO Boot, and follow the steps in the wizard.
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Click Submit and your VM will be created and started.
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</div></li></ol></div></div><ul class="docnav"><li class="previous"><a accesskey="p" href="vm-lifecycle.html"><strong>Prev</strong>10.3. VM Lifecycle</a></li><li class="up"><a accesskey="u" href="#"><strong>Up</strong></a></li><li class="home"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html"><strong>Home</strong></a></li><li class="next"><a accesskey="n" href="accessing-vms.html"><strong>Next</strong>10.5. Accessing VMs</a></li></ul></body></html>
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