rBuilder Online:Virtual Iron Appliance
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The Virtual Iron™ Appliance image build type in rBuilder creates a Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) of the software appliance that can be run in Virtual Iron™ virtualization solutions.
TO USE THIS VIRTUAL APPLIANCE: Download the completed image, unpack the archive, and use the resulting VHD and associated VMD files to launch the virtual machine.
When building the appliance group to use this image type, no additional specifications are required except to ensure that the architecture matches the needs of the deployment scenario. The following rMake command builds group-example for 32-bit and 64-bit architectures:
$> rmake build 'group-example[is: x86]' 'group-example[is: x86_64]'
The following options can be customized in the Advanced Options section when creating a build of this build type:
- Custom output filename prefix
- Use this to specify a custom prefix for filenames output from the build, overriding the default name-version-architecture prefix.
- Custom Conary installLabelPath setting
- Use this to specify the locations where your software appliance will retrieve software updates, such as a local Conary repository dedicated to the development of your software appliance. (If you do not choose this option, the install label paths are set to locations at rpath.org.)
- Automatically install required dependencies during updates
- Use this if you want the appliance to automatically install additional software on which updates may depend.
- How many MB of free space should be allocated in the image?
- Use this to designate a specific amount of free space to be reserved in the same filespace in addition to that reserved for the operating system distribution. The default value for this is 250 MB.
- How many MB swap space should be reserved in this image?
- Use this to designate a size for the swap file in the filesystem that best meets the needs of your software appliance. The default value for this is 128 MB.
- VHD hard disk type
- Use this drop-down list to select between Difference, Dynamic, and Fixed images. The default value for this is Dynamic image.
Microsoft® Virtual Hard Disk Format Specification