How to create custom VM?

[steelsoap]

So I am reading the docs:

 

Lost already, I can't give a name and description. All I get, aside a "start vm after creation" checkbox, is a quasi empty XML:

 

Web searches are all concered with VM icons as opposed to actual VM configurations...

 

I want to install Mint btw.

 

 

Edited September 8, 2024 by steelsoap

[Kilrah]

Select Ubuntu or Debian template since that's what Mint is based on.

Custom means "I'm writing the whole XML myself".

[steelsoap]

Okay, so let's try the Ubuntu template. Issue is I don't see a way to specify a particular iso. And you don't explain the inconsistency between reality and the docs. I am supposed to encounter GUI after selecting the Custom template not an XML text edit.

Edited September 8, 2024 by steelsoap

[SimonF]

6 hours ago, steelsoap said:

Okay, so let's try the Ubuntu template. Issue is I don't see a way to specify a particular iso. And you don't explain the inconsistency between reality and the docs. I am supposed to encounter GUI after selecting the Custom template not an XML text edit.

Custom template is just for a Custom XML.

 

Using one of the other templates is mainly for the Icons. Which you can change. Select OS Install ISO and select your ISO file. Screen may look a little different as this is 7Beta.

[steelsoap]

Yeah I see the iso selection field, I do see it with Ubuntu too now
Alright, thanks. That doc page is still as wrong as it can be though.

 

[SimonF]

2 minutes ago, steelsoap said:

Yeah I see the iso selection field, I do see it with Ubuntu too now
Alright, thanks. That doc page is still as wrong as it can be though.

 

Can you provide a link to the doc?

[Kilrah]

Looks like it's the "current" official doc... Yep that first point makes no sense

 

https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/manual/vm/vm-management/#creating-your-own-vms

Edited September 8, 2024 by Kilrah