This article provides steps about how to create a VM pack from a JDK
Synopsis
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.
