VMware VirtualCenter 1.1 Support Documentation

This chapter describes how to customize your guest operating systems. You customize your guest operating system when you create a virtual machine in VirtualCenter from a template or as a clone.

This chapter contains the following sections:

• Preparing for Guest Customization
• Beginning the Guest Customization Process
• Customizing New Guest Operating Systems
• Completing a Guest Operating System Customization

You need to use a Virtual Machine Administrator role assigned to the target host where the virtual machine is located to perform the activities described in this chapter.

When a new virtual machine is deployed or cloned, starting the Guest Customization wizard is an option.

Customizing Windows guest operating system options include:

• Join workgroups and domains
• Network interface configuration
• Domain suffix, security ID (SID) change

Customizing Linux guest operating system options include:

• Host name
• Domain suffix
• Network interface configuration