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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>12.1. Creating Templates: Overview</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="working-with-templates.html" title="Chapter 12. Working with Templates" /><link rel="prev" href="working-with-templates.html" title="Chapter 12. Working with Templates" /><link rel="next" href="requirements-templates.html" title="12.2. Requirements for Templates" /></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="working-with-templates.html"><strong>Prev</strong></a></li><li class="next"><a accesskey="n" href="requirements-templates.html"><strong>Next</strong></a></li></ul><div xml:lang="en-US" class="section" id="create-templates-overview" lang="en-US"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" id="create-templates-overview">12.1. Creating Templates: Overview</h2></div></div></div><div class="para">
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CloudStack ships with a default template for the CentOS operating system. There are a variety of ways to add more templates. Administrators and end users can add templates. The typical sequence of events is:
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Launch a VM instance that has the operating system you want. Make any other desired configuration changes to the VM.
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Stop the VM.
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Convert the volume into a template.
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There are other ways to add templates to CloudStack. For example, you can take a snapshot of the VM's volume and create a template from the snapshot, or import a VHD from another system into CloudStack
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The various techniques for creating templates are described in the next few sections.
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