CentOS - May 2020 - How to Load Custom CentOS 7 Image

Dear All,

I want to create a CentOS 7 VMWARE VM. I need to install various Runtime
libraries, e.g., Tomcat, into the VM. Once all looks good, then I want to make a
Custom Image of the entire VM. Later I want to load this Custom Image to a
physical HW, so that I don?t need to go through all kinds Runtime installation.
Does anyone know how to handle creating a Custom Image and Load to physical HW
process? How does boot loader work when VM vs Physical HW has different devices?

Thank you,

- Xinhuan

On Thu, 2020-05-14 at 19:47 +0000, Xinhuan Zheng wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I want to create a CentOS 7 VMWARE VM. I need to install various
> Runtime libraries, e.g., Tomcat, into the VM. Once all looks good,
> then I want to make a Custom Image of the entire VM. Later I want to
> load this Custom Image to a physical HW, so that I don?t need to go
> through all kinds Runtime installation. Does anyone know how to
> handle creating a Custom Image and Load to physical HW process? How
> does boot loader work when VM vs Physical HW has different devices?
> 
> 
I created a custom ISO a couple of years ago [0], you can use it as
your base of one of the following links[1-4], should be sufficient to
get you started.

[0] https://github.com/EarlRamirez/snipeit_iso
[1] https://gist.github.com/vkanevska/fd624f708cde7d7c172a576b10bc6966
[2] 
https://blog.mousetech.com/creating-a-functional-custom-centos-install-dvd/
[3] 
https://serverfault.com/questions/517908/how-to-create-a-custom-iso-image-in-centos
[4] 
https://www.golinuxhub.com/2017/05/how-to-create-customized-bootable-boot.html


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