Overview of virtual machines creation
Once you have deployed your XenServer infrastructure, you can start creating virtual machines (VMs).
Virtual machines can be created in different ways:
Using VM templates
Converting a physical machine to virtual
Importing an exported VM
Cloning an existing VM
We will introduce them here and discuss them in depth later in the chapter.
Using VM templates
Virtual machines are prepared from templates. A template is a virtual machine encapsulated into a file, making it possible to rapidly deploy new VMs. Each template contains installation metadata—the setup information needed to create a new VM with a specific guest operating system, and with the optimum storage, CPU, memory, and virtual network configuration.
XenServer provides you a set of templates out of the box—each of them is developed in order to run a specific operating system because Linux and Windows operating systems require several different settings in order to run optimally. VMs in a XenServer environment...
