You can create a single virtual machine if no virtual machines in your environment meet your needs, for example of a particular operating system or hardware configuration. When you create a virtual machine without a template or clone, you can configure the virtual hardware, including processors, hard disks, and memory. You open the New Virtual Machine wizard from any object in the inventory that is a valid parent object of a virtual machine.
During the creation process, a default disk is configured for the virtual machine. You can remove this disk and add a new hard disk, select an existing disk, or add an RDM disk on the Virtual Hardware page of the wizard.
Verify that you have the following privileges:
- From a datacenter or ESXi host in the inventory, right-click and select New Virtual Machine from the Actions menu: 2. In the New Virtual Machine Wizard, select Create a new virtual machine and click Next: 3. Type the virtual machine name and select a location in the inventory where the VM will reside: 4.
- You can create a single virtual machine if no virtual machines in your environment meet your needs, for example of a particular operating system or hardware configuration. When you create a virtual machine without a template or clone, you can configure the virtual hardware, including processors, hard disks, and memory. You open the New Virtual Machine wizard from any object in the inventory.
- Virtual machine .Inventory.Create new on the destination folder or data center.
- Virtual machine.Configuration.Add new disk on the destination folder or data center, if you are adding a new disk.
- Virtual machine.Configuration.Add existing disk on the destination folder or data center, if you are adding an existing disk.
- Virtual machine.Configuration.Configure Raw device on the destination folder or data center, if you are using an RDM or SCSI pass-through device.
- Virtual machine.Configuration.Configure Host USB device on the destination folder or data center, if you are attaching a virtual USB device backed by a host USB device.
- Virtual machine.Configuration.Advanced configuration on the destination folder or data center, if you are configuring advanced virtual machine settings.
- Virtual machine.Configuration.Change Swapfile placement on the destination folder or data center, if you are configuring swap file placement.
- Virtual machine.Configuration.Toggle disk change tracking on the destination folder or data center, if you are enabling change tracking on the virtual machine's disks.
- Resource.Assign virtual machine to resource pool on the destination host, cluster, or resource pool.
- Datastore.Allocate space on the destination datastore or datastore folder.
- Network.Assign network on the network that the virtual machine will be assigned to.
To verify the privileges assigned to your role, click Menu > Administration > Roles and select the role.
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Procedure
- Right-click any inventory object that is a valid parent object of a virtual machine, such as a data center, folder, cluster, resource pool, or host, and select New Virtual Machine.
- On the Select a creation type page, select Create a new virtual machine and click Next.
- On the Select a name and folder page, enter a unique name for the virtual machine and select a deployment location.
- On the Select a compute resource page, select the host, cluster, resource pool, or vApp where the virtual machine will run and click Next. If creating the virtual machine at the selected location causes compatibility problems, an alarm appears in the Compatibility pane.Note: If you want to create a virtual machine that uses persistent memory, choose a host or a cluster with available PMem resource.
- On the Select storage page, choose the storage type, the storage policy, and a datastore or datastore cluster where to store the virtual machine files. Option
Description Create a virtual machine on a host that has PMem resource - Choose the type of storage by selecting the Standard or the PMem radio button.
With the PMem storage option, every virtual machine disk file is stored on the host-local PMem datastore by default. You can change the datastore at a later time. The virtual machine home location must be on a non-PMem datastore.
For more information about persistent memory and PMem storage, see the vSphere Resource Management guide.
- (Optional) From the VM Storage Policy drop-down menu, select a virtual machine storage policy or leave the default one.
- (Optional) Select the Encrypt this virtual machine check box to encrypt the virtual machine.
- Select a datastore or a datastore cluster.
- Select the Disable Storage DRS for this virtual machine check box if you do not want to use storage DRS with the virtual machine.
Create a virtual machine on a host that does not have PMem resource - Select a VM storage policy or leave the default one.
- (Optional) Select the Encrypt this virtual machine check box to encrypt the virtual machine.
- Select a datastore or a datastore cluster.
Important: For information about creating an encrypted virtual machine, see vSphere Security. - Choose the type of storage by selecting the Standard or the PMem radio button.
- On the Select compatibility page, select the virtual machine compatibility with ESXi host versions and click Next. Note: Select the latest compatibility if you want to have access to the latest hardware features.
- On the Select a guest OS page, select the guest OS family and version and click Next. When you select a guest operating system, BIOS or Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) is selected by default, depending on the firmware supported by the operating system. Mac OS X Server guest operating systems support only EFI. If the operating system supports BIOS and EFI, you can change the default from the VM Options tab of the Edit Settings dialog after you create the virtual machine and before you install the guest operating system. If you select EFI, you cannot boot an operating system that supports only BIOS, and the reverse.Important: Do not change the firmware after the guest operating system is installed. The guest operating system installer partitions the disk in a particular format, depending on which firmware the installer was booted from. If you change the firmware, you will not be able to boot the guest.
- (Optional) Enable Windows Virtualization Based Security. The Enable Windows Virtualization Based Security option is available for the latest Windows OS versions, for example Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016. For more information about VBS, see the vSphere Security documentation.
- On the Customize hardware page, configure the virtual machine hardware and options and click Next. You can leave the defaults and configure the virtual machine hardware and options later. For more information, see Configuring Virtual Machine Hardware and Configuring Virtual Machine Options.Important: If you chose to use PMem storage for the virtual machine, its default hard disk, the new hard disks that you configure, and the NVDIMM devices that you add to the virtual machine all share the same PMem resources. So, you must adjust the size of the newly added devices in accordance with the amount of the PMem available to the host. If any part of the configuration requires attention, the wizard alerts you.
- On the Ready to complete page, review the details and click Finish.
To create a new virtual machine, you need to start VirtualBox. On the host where you installed Oracle VDI and VirtualBox, select the Applications menu on the desktop, then the System Tools menu, and then Oracle VM VirtualBox. Alternatively, you can run the VirtualBox command in a terminal. The Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager is displayed, as shown in Figure 6.4.
Figure 6.4. Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager
Original 3d animation. All the following steps for creating a virtual machine can be performed using the VirtualBox command line. However, if you are new to VirtualBox, you will probably find the Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager easier to use.
In the toolbar, click the New button. The New Virtual Machine Wizard is displayed in a new window, as shown in Figure 6.5.
Figure 6.5. New Virtual Machine Wizard
Click the Next button to move though the various steps of the wizard. The wizard enables you to configure the basic details of the virtual machine. On the VM Name and OS Type step, enter a descriptive name for the virtual machine in the Name field and select the operating system and version that you are going to install from the drop-down lists, as shown in Figure 6.6. It is important to select the correct operating system and version as this determines the default settings for VirtualBox uses for the virtual machine. You can change the settings later after you have created the virtual machine.
Figure 6.6. VM Name and OS Type Step
On the Memory step, you can simply accept the default. This is the amount of host memory (RAM) that VirtualBox assigns to the virtual machine when it runs. You can change the settings of the virtual machine later, when you import the template into Oracle VDI.
On the Virtual Hard Disk step, ensure Start-up Disk is selected (see Figure 6.7) , select Create new hard disk and click Next. The Virtual Disk Creation Wizard is displayed in a new window so you can create the new virtual disk.
Figure 6.7. Virtual Hard Disk Step
On the following steps, select VDI (VirtualBox Disk Image) as the file type, Dynamically allocated as the storage details, and accept the defaults for the virtual disk file location and size, and then click Create to create the virtual disk.
When the virtual disk is created, the Virtual Disk Creation Wizard is closed and you are returned to the Summary step of the New Virtual Machine Wizard. Click Create to create the virtual machine. The wizard is closed and the newly-created virtual machine is listed in Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager, as shown in Figure 6.8.
Figure 6.8. Virtual Machine Added
Since you want to install an operating system in the virtual machine, you need to make sure the virtual machine can access the installation media. To do this, you edit the virtual machine settings. In Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager, select the virtual machine and then in the toolbar click the Settings button. The Settings window is displayed. In the navigation on the left, select Storage as shown in Figure 6.9.
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Figure 6.9. Virtual Machine Storage Settings
In the Storage Tree section, select Empty below the IDE Controller. The CD/DVD Drive attributes are displayed. Click the CD/DVD icon next to the CD/DVD Drive drop-down list and select the location of the installation media, as follows:
To connect the virtual CD/DVD drive to the host's physical CD/DVD drive, select Host Drive
.To insert an ISO image in the virtual CD/DVD drive, select Choose a virtual CD/DVD disk file and browse for the ISO image.
Figure 6.10 shows an ISO image inserted in the virtual CD/DVD drive.
Figure 6.10. Virtual Machine CD/DVD Drive Settings
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Click OK to apply the storage settings. The Settings window is closed. If you connected the virtual machine's CD/DVD drive to the host's physical CD/DVD drive, insert the installation media in the host's CD/DVD drive now. You are now ready to start the virtual machine and install the operating system.
In Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager, select the virtual machine and click the Start button in the toolbar. A new window is displayed, which shows the virtual machine booting up. Depending on the operating system and the configuration of the virtual machine, VirtualBox might display some warnings first. It is safe to ignore these warnings. The virtual machine should boot from the installation media, as shown in Figure 6.11.
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Figure 6.11. An Installation Program in a Running Virtual Machine
You can now perform all your normal steps for installing the operating system. Be sure to make a note of the user name and password of the administrator user account you create in the virtual machine, which you will need in order to log in to the virtual machine. Do not join the virtual machine to a Windows domain (it can be a member of a workgroup) as the domain configuration is performed later. The virtual machine might reboot several times during the installation. When the installation is complete, you might also want to let Windows Update to install any updates.
Next, you need to install the VirtualBox Guest Additions, as described in Section 6.4, 'Installing the VirtualBox Guest Additions'.
