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Building New Appliances That Use SCSI Disks

You cannot convert existing Windows appliances to use SCSI disks; you must rebuild them from scratch.

To build a new Linux-based or Windows appliance that uses SCSI disks with the iso2class utility, specify the scsi=1 parameter when executing the iso2class utility.

For example, the following command line initiates the installation of a Windows-based appliance:

util iso2class app_name=myapp iso_volume1=_GLOBAL:win08-iso console_type=graphic virt_options=acpi=1 cpu=1 mem=1G scsi=1 install_size=15G

If you do not specify the scsi=1 option, iso2class builds the appliance to use IDE disks.