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How To Manually Create VM Pack For JDK
How To Manually Create VM Pack For JDK
Summary
This article provides steps about how to create a VM pack from a JDKSynopsis
This article provides steps about how to create a VM pack from a JDK. InstallAnywhere Supports VM pack with one level of nesting of JRE folders.
Discussion
To manually create a VM from JDK. Please refer the following steps:
- Download and install the JDK on the desired platform.
- Copy the JDK directory to your personal directory and rename it to jre.
- Create an archive of the JRE directory.
- For Windows, create a vm.zip archive. Do not use compression and do not retain full path info
- For Linux and Unix like platform, create a vm.tar.Z archive. Create a compressed tarball. For example,
tar -czvf vm.tar.Z jre.
- Create a vm.properties file. For more information about creating VM.properties file click here.
- Create a ZIP archive consisting of the VM archive (vm.zip or vm.tar.Z) and the vm.properties file. For best results, use maximum compression on this archive.
- Rename the resulting ZIP archive: <CustomVMPack>.vm.
- Copy the .vm file to IA_HOME\resource\installer_vms where IA_HOME is InstallAnywhere installation directory.
Additional Information
For more information about Creating a VM Pack for InstallAnywhere click here.
To know more about VM pack structures click here.
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