Bug 1955665

Summary:	[Docs] Instructions to manually remove unique information for creating a template
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	Anitha Udgiri <audgiri>
Component:	Documentation	Assignee:	Parth Shah <pashah>
Documentation sub component:	default	QA Contact:	RHEL DPM <rhel-docs>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	Docs Contact:
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Priority:	high	CC:	haoliu, jherrman, rhel-docs, ryasuoka, tcapek
Version:	8.5	Keywords:	Documentation
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Description Anitha Udgiri 2021-04-30 15:56:02 UTC

Document URL: 

Chapter 8. Cloning virtual machines Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Red Hat Customer Portal
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/configuring_and_managing_virtualization/cloning-virtual-machines_configuring-and-managing-virtualization


Section Number and Name: 

8.2. Creating a virtual machine template

Describe the issue: 

The following URL in RHEL provides specific details on manually removing unique information from a VM to make it a template.

Chapter 4. Cloning Virtual Machines Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Red Hat Customer Portal
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/virtualization_deployment_and_administration_guide/cloning_virtual_machines

But the same information is not present in RHEL 8 docs creating confusion for the Customer on the steps to follow.

Suggestions for improvement: 

Request for the instructions to manually remove unique information

Additional information:

Comment 1 Ryosuke Yasuoka 2021-05-18 00:39:35 UTC

The firstboot is replaced with gnome-initial-setup in RHEL8.
To configure the virtual machine to run configuration wizards on the next boot, we can remove the gnome-initial-setup-done file.

# rm ~/.config/gnome-initial-setup-done

It looks other configuration steps in RHEL7's document can use for my RHEL8.

Ryosuke.

Comment 2 Jiri Herrmann 2021-09-16 12:45:21 UTC

Hello Anitha, my apologies for the delay in responding.

Just to clarify, do I understand it correctly that you're requesting we add a RHEL 7 equivalent of the VM templating instructions that we have in RHEL 8 [1] to the RHEL 7 virt documentation [2] ?

[1] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/configuring_and_managing_virtualization/cloning-virtual-machines_configuring-and-managing-virtualization#preparing-a-virtual-machine-template_cloning-virtual-machines
[2] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/virtualization_deployment_and_administration_guide/cloning_virtual_machines

Thank you, and have an excellent day!
Jirka