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Table Of Contents
- Cloud Director User's Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Understanding VMware Cloud Director
- Managing Users and Groups
- Using the Resources Available to Your Organization
- Working in an Organization
- Set Up an Organization
- Review Your Organization Profile
- Modify Your Email Settings
- Modify Your Organization's Policies
- Enable Guest Personalization in Your Organization
- Manage Users and Groups in Your Organization
- Manage Resources in Your Organization
- Manage Virtual Machines in Your Organization
- Viewing Organization Log Tasks and Events
- Working with Catalogs
- Working with Media Files
- Working with vApp Templates
- Open a vApp Template
- Add a vApp Template to My Cloud
- Download a vApp Template
- Upload an OVF Package as a vApp Template
- Resume the Upload of a vApp Template
- Add a vApp Template from a Catalog
- Copy a vApp Template to a Published Catalog
- Move a vApp Template to a Published Catalog
- Delete a vApp Template
- Save a vApp as a vApp Template
- Modify vApp Template Properties
- Working with vApps
- Add a vApp From a Catalog in Your Organization
- Create a New vApp
- Understanding vApps
- Working with Networks in a vApp
- Copy a vApp Template and Save it as a vApp
- Edit vApp Properties
- Delete a vApp
- Start a vApp
- Start a vApp with an Older Version of VMware Tools
- Stop a vApp
- Suspend a vApp
- Discard the Suspended State of a vApp
- Reset a vApp or Virtual Machine
- Share a vApp
- Power on and Force Recustomization of a Virtual Machine
- Save vApp as a vApp Template to Your Catalog
- Change the Owner of a vApp
- Copy a vApp to Another vDC
- Move a vApp to Another vDC
- Delete Virtual Machines from a vApp
- Working with Virtual Machines
- Open a Virtual Machine Console
- Reset a vApp or Virtual Machine
- Discard the Suspended State of a Virtual Machine
- Insert a CD/DVD
- Eject a CD/DVD
- Insert a Floppy
- Eject a Floppy
- Copy or Move a Virtual Machine to a vApp
- Delete a Virtual Machine
- Managing Your Virtual Machines
- Installing VMware Tools
- Install VMware Tools in a New Virtual Machine with No Guest Operating System
- Installing VMware Tools in a vApp
- Install VMware Tools in a Virtual Machine in a vApp
- Install VMware Tools in a vApp Template
- Install VMware Tools With Guest Customization Disabled
- Upgrade VMware Tools
- Install VMware Tools on a Windows Guest
- Install VMware Tools on a Linux Guest in X with the RPM Installer
- Install VMware Tools on a Linux Guest with the Tar Installer or RPM Installer
- Install VMware Tools on a Solaris Guest
- Guest Operating System Support
- Install a Guest Operating System
- Customizing Your Guest Operating System
- Understanding Guest Customization
- Customizing a Guest OS When Saving a vApp Template as a vApp
- Enable or Disable Guest Customization
- Change Guest Customization Settings for Virtual Machines in a vApp Template
- Customize Your Windows NT vApp Template
- Customize Your Solaris vApp Template
- Upload a Customization Script
- Reset Your Virtual Machine's Password
- Domain Join Requirements for Windows
- Join a Windows Guest Domain During Guest Operating System Personalization
- Guest Operating System Support
- Index
A script starts that copies files to the guest and prepares the virtual machine template for customization.
NOTE If you add new Windows NT vApp Templates, you need to complete only steps 4-7 once. You do not
need to repeat these steps for additional virtual machines in the Catalog that result from copying these virtual
machines.
Customize Your Solaris vApp Template
You must manually customize Solaris vApp templates.
Prerequisites
Ensure VMware Tools are installed.
Procedure
1 Click Catalogs.
2 Select a vApp Template, right-click, and select Add to My Cloud.
3 In the guest OS, shut down the virtual machine.
4 Ensure that the Enable guest customization check box is selected and power off the virtual machine.
5 Start the vApp and power on the virtual machine.
The Customization CD is mounted automatically after the virtual machine powers on.
6 Log in to the Solaris guest operating system.
7 In the terminal, run these case-sensitive commands:
/etc/init.d/volmgt stop
/etc/init.d/volmgt start
sh /cdrom/cdrom/customize-guest.sh install
eject cdrom
8 Run shutdown -y -g0 -i5 to shut down the virtual machine from inside the guest operating system.
9 Stop the vApp.
10 Select the vApp template, right-click, and select Copy to Catalog.
11 (Optional) Delete the original vApp template.
A script starts that copies files to the guest and prepares the virtual machine template for customization.
NOTE If you add new Solaris vApp Templates, you need to complete only steps 4-7 once. You do not need to
repeat these steps for additional virtual machines in the Catalog that result from copying these virtual
machines.
Upload a Customization Script
You can upload a customization script to a virtual machine. The script runs before and after guest customization
when you deploy a virtual machine based on a vApp template.
Procedure
1 Click My Cloud.
2 In the left pane, click VMs.
3 In the right pane, select a virtual machine, right-click, and select Properties.
4 On the Guest OS Customization tab, in the Customization Script panel, click Browse.
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