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Template Images

For faster deployment, you may want to start already pre-configured instances with all your settings, tools and applications already installed. To do so, you can create your own image that you can use as a template for deployment.

To create a template image:

  1. Launch a Genymotion instance and prepare it with all the settings, tools and applications you need.

  2. From the EC2 Management console, select this instance and click on Actions > Image and templates > Create Image. This will create an AMI in the geographic zone where the instance was launched. You can find it in the Image > AMIs page.

    Use a custom image in another geographic zone

    To use your custom images in another geographic zone, you need to copy them to this zone: select your custom images in Image > AMIs and click on Actions > Copy AMI > Select the zone.

    Copy AMI

Then, to use this custom image in a new instance:

  1. When creating a new instance, simply select the AMI you created from My AMIs:

    Custom instance

  2. Make sure to the same settings, especially the same security group(s) or firewall rules, as the original instance:

    Change network

    Select group

  1. Launch a Genymotion instance and prepare it with all the settings, tools and applications you need.
  2. In Compute Engine, go to Snapshots and create a snapshot from this instance - it can be used as a base custom image.
  3. To create a new instance with this custom image, go to Create instance in Compute Engine and select the snapshot you created as the boot disk image.
  1. Launch a Genymotion instance and prepare it with all the settings, tools and applications you need.
  2. From ECS/Instances, select this instance and click on More > Disk and Image > Create Custom Image. This will create a custom image in the geographic zone where the former instance was launched.
  3. To create a new instance with this custom image, click Create an instance from the ECS Console in Overview.
  4. In the Image section, select Custom image and select the image you created from the drop down menu. This will create a launch an instance with the same settings and contents as the original instance:

Custom image

Use a custom image in another geographic zone

To use a custom image on another geographic zone, select the image in ECS/Images, then click on Copy Image > Target Region .

  1. Go to the Virtual Machine section, select the instance you wish to use as a template and click on Export Template:

    Export Template

  2. You can download the template as a .zip file, add it to your library or deploy it directly:

    Template options

  3. To use your template images, please refer to Azure documentation for detailed instructions.