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General Best Practices

• Added by ckamps, last edited by GaborPuhalla on Apr 17, 2009  (view change)

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General Best Practices for Building Virtual Appliances Best Practices for Building Virtual Appliances (VMware) Virtual Machine Image Formats VDI - Virtual Disk Image format used in VirtualBox OVF = Open Virtualization format defined by VMWare and supported, to some extent, on other platforms such as VirtualBox VMDK - Virtual Machine Disk Format used in VMware platforms and supported, to some extent, on other platforms such as VirtualBox AMI - Amazon Machine Image Sharing Images Across Virtualization Platforms Ideally, you should be able to deliver your VM images in a single format and enable users to deploy the images across a variety of popular v12n platforms. In reality, there are many practical considerations when attempting to share images across platforms. Sharing Images Across Virtualization Platforms Selecting a Guest OS Which OS should you use for your images? Just Enough OS (JeOS) Since VM images include a copy of a guest OS, you will need to determine how much of a particular OS is included in your images. A number of factors Just Enough OS for Virtual Appliances Experimental OpenSolaris Server JeOS Legal and Licensing Considerations What are the legal and licensing considerations you should be aware of when assembling and delivering your images? Certification and Support Considerations How will people get help when they use your images?

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