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Installing a guest operating system is a very common task upon VM creation, and in order to reduce deployment time, we have included the ability of mounting an ISO image right after a VM has been created. With this users can power on the VM and start installing the desired OS without remotely mounting the ISO image, which depending of user’s bandwidth, could take longer because it has to transmit the ISO file contents to the VM.

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For further instructions on how to deploy a virtual machine from image, please refer to Deploy Instance from Image.

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In some operating systems, such as the most recent versions of Windows, you need to provide the device drivers to properly recognize basic devices like the VMXNET3 network adapter or Paravirtual SCSi controllers. These drivers are provided by VMware and now, they are available for you to use on demand by the floppy command vss-cli compute floppy.

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