Create a Tiny Core Linux VM Template for vSphere Lab environment
I’ve always wanted to find a lightweight VM template for running on nested vSphere lab environment, or sometimes for demonstrating live cloud migration such as vMotion to the VMware Cloud on AWS. Recently I have managed to achieve this by using the Tiny Core Linux distribution and it ticked all of my requirements: ultra lightweight – the VM runs stable with only 1 vCPU, 256MB RAM and 64MB hard disk! common linux tools installed – such as curl, wget, openssh etc open-vm-tools installed a lightweight http server serving a static site for running networking or load-balancing tests In this post I will walk you through the process for creating a Tiny Core based Linux VM template including all of the above requirements. To begin, download the Tiny Core ISO from here. (For reference, I’m using the CorePlus-v11.1 release as I was getting some weird issues with OpenSSH on the latest v12.0 release) ...