Install Linux VMs

You can install virtual machines (VMs) with a base image file that includes the operating system, required drivers, patches, updates, and specific configurations.

The base image ensures that all new VMs start from a consistent, secure, and reliable base. In Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, golden images are tested and published as container disks in a secure registry. These images are automatically updated and imported into the cluster using the Containerized Data Importer (CDI). The same golden image can be used with nodes of different architectures if the boot image supports the required architectures.

You can also have your own pre-configured, tested, and secured base images.

You can provision VMs from the catalog, which is accessible from the web console where users can pick up items from templates and instance types interactively. For mass deployment via YAML files, you can directly provision from a dataVolume template.