RudderVirt

#Recipes

Full worked examples for the situations you're most likely to hit.

  • Linux from a Cloud Image — The easy path. Cloud images come pre-installed and pre-configured for cloud-init. You just boot, provision, capture.
  • Linux from an ISO — When there's no cloud image (or you need a specific install layout), boot from an ISO and drive the installer with a preseed/kickstart file served via the HTTP directory.
  • Hello World — The shortest useful build — a single-VM module that boots a Debian 12 cloud image
  • Windows from an ISO — Windows builds are the hardest case. There are four moving pieces:
  • Multi-VM Builds — A multi-VM module. The VMs boot in parallel, share networking, and each becomes a template VM in the resulting module — clones spin up running copies of all of them as a group.
  • Layered Builds — A build can take its source from another build's output. This is how you compose a stack of modules, each layering on top of a previous one:
  • Sample Autounattend — Find and replace any references to YOUR with values that suit your build. IE YOURCOMPUTERNAME, YOURUSERNAME, YOURUSER, YOURPASSWORD, etc.