Building a VM

GUI Builder

The video below demonstrates how to create a VM using the Cloud CIX GUI builder.


Automated JSON builder

The CRT cloud computing core are trying to streamline the process of creating a VM as much as possible.

We have created an interactive shell script to create a valid JSON file for you, requiring far less input parameters than the Cloud CIX GUI.

Warning

NUIG users, due to the cyberattack you cannot use an IPV4 address from campus. You need to run this on your home WIFI.

wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/BarryDigby/695e366914456f67308deac858fd558b/raw/a6161e6b2cb343544c69d8153ef3c3617f34e5de/cix_gen.sh && bash cix_gen.sh

Follow the onscreen prompts to fill out a template JSON file:

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You can now upload the JSON file to create a virtual machine:

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