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Introduction

Build your own systemvm template (BYO SystemVMs) allows anyone to customize and build their own systemvm template. SystemVM template is an appliance which gets patched by CloudStack's systemvm.iso on a host before it becomes one of the service VMs: ssvm, cpvm or rvm. To make it possible for anyone to BYO systemvm template, we researched and found that it was possible for everyone to install VirtualBox, create and setup a VM, install all the tools and export it. To automate the process we've used veewee, an opensource appliance building tool, that automates the process of appliance building on VirtualBox and we use some tools to export the disk image to various formats.

Scope and Assumptions

Building Process

Testing and Issues

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