https://route179.dev/tags/linux/ Recent content in Linux on Route179 Hugo en-us 2026 Sheng Chen Sun, 21 Feb 2021 00:24:35 +0000 https://route179.dev/2021/02/21/create-a-tiny-core-linux-vm-template-for-vsphere-lab-environment/ Sun, 21 Feb 2021 00:24:35 +0000 https://route179.dev/2021/02/21/create-a-tiny-core-linux-vm-template-for-vsphere-lab-environment/ <p>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 <a href="http://tinycorelinux.net/">Tiny Core Linux distribution</a> and it ticked all of my requirements:</p> <ul> <li>ultra lightweight – the VM runs stable with only 1 vCPU, 256MB RAM and 64MB hard disk!</li> <li>common linux tools installed – such as curl, wget, openssh etc</li> <li>open-vm-tools installed</li> <li>a lightweight http server serving a static site for running networking or load-balancing tests</li> </ul> <p>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 <a href="http://tinycorelinux.net/downloads.html"></a> <a href="http://tinycorelinux.net/downloads.html">her</a><a href="http://tinycorelinux.net/downloads.html">e</a>. (For reference, I’m using the <strong><a href="http://tinycorelinux.net/11.x/x86/archive/11.1/CorePlus-11.1.iso">CorePlus-v11.1</a></strong> release as I was getting some weird issues with OpenSSH on the latest v12.0 release)</p>