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iso2class: Appliance Distro Creation Utility

This section contains the following topics:

Overview

Usage

ISOs used for OS installations

Graphical Console Access

Operation

Operating System Specific Considerations

Appliance access to files on the grid controller

Notes

Overview

The iso2class utility makes it easy to create new OS distros for appliances. The iso2class utility is used to create a singleton class using an OS installed from an ISO image.

iso2class creates and starts an application which is used to install an operating system from an ISO image onto a volume. This application is generated from a template and contains a singleton named iso2class. The boot volume of the singleton is an ISO image. A second volume on the singleton is the target for the OS install.

The result is a singleton with a single volume which contains the installed OS. This singleton can be moved into a catalog and be used as the basis for creating new appliance classes.

Important!

• See the OS Product Characteristics in the Release Notes for important information about the supported operating systems.
• iso2class requires that the servers in the grid contain either Intel VT or AMD-V for hardware virtualization support (HVM). If HVM is not available on the grid, iso2class cannot be used.