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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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