About Creating VM Templates

InstallAnywhere 2013

Edition: Virtual appliance support is available in InstallAnywhere Premier Edition with Cloud Pack.

InstallAnywhere provides several InstallAnywhere VM templates, but you can also create your own VM templates using the Create InstallAnywhere VM Template Wizard.

Launching the Create InstallAnywhere VM Template Wizard

The executable file for the Create InstallAnywhere VM Template Wizard is in the following directory:

$IA_HOME$/VM_Template_CreationUtility

To launch the Create InstallAnywhere VM Template Wizard, double-click one of the following files:

Create InstallAnywhere VM Template Wizard Executable Files

User

Executable

User with administrative privileges on the build system

CreateVMTemplate.exe

User without administrative privileges on the build system

CreateVMTemplate-AsInvoker.exe

You can use this wizard to create InstallAnywhere VM templates for both VMware vSphere and Amazon EC2.

Note: You can also use this wizard’s command-line interface to create these templates, as described in Creating VM Templates Using the Command Line.

Default Credentials for the VM Templates that You Create

The following are the default credentials for the root user for the VM templates that are created using the Create InstallAnywhere VM Template Wizard:

Default Credentials for User-Created VM Templates

Hypervisor

Amazon EC2

VMware vSphere

User Name

root

root

Password

root123

root2012Vapp!