What are VM creation templates? Can I change them afterwards?
-
Hi, I'm running into an issue where I'm trying to create a new Windows 10 VM by booting into a clonezilla ISO and deploying an image to the VM.
The problem is, if I choose Windows 10 64bit as the template for the VM, the latest Clonezilla has a scrambled screen (after selecting a choice in the initial menu.) After some testing, it seems to apply to the latest Ubuntu and Debian isos as well, so I assume it's something to do with the recent kernel.
I was able to work around this by creating the VM with a Ubuntu template, booting CZ, and then deploying my W10 image. The W10 VM after imaging seems to boot and function fine so far.
So I was just wondering, what is the purpose and effect of these templates? Will I experience problems running W10 under an Ubuntu template? Can I change the template after the fact to the W10 64bit template?
Is there a generic template that can be safely used for everything?
-
As far as I know, templates are just for easy VM creation, basically they provide you with starter values that you can change if you want to, if not everything will still work. In some templates there might be special hardware attached to it (for example windows VM will have special HW to let citrix tools use windows update to install drivers automatically).
You can change the template afterwards by creating a new VM from the template you want to change to but don't start the VM after the creation. Then attached your storage from the old VM to the new one. Of course the old VM will need to be shutdown first or you risk corrupting your VDIs. And if you want to remove your old VM, make sure to detach the VDIs first, or it might get deleted too when you delete the VM. But if everything is running fine, I don't think you need to change the template.
-
Templates are like preconfigured "bios settings" for specific VMs.
It would be better to understand your screen issue instead of using a potentially incompatible template (later problems).
In XO, advanced tab, try to set more video memory.
-
@olivierlambert Ok, thanks. I will create another topic for the display issue.
