Creating a JRE VM Pack Manually

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As an alternative to using the Create JRE VM Pack Wizard (as described in Using the Create JRE VM Pack Wizard), you can manually create a JRE VM pack.

To create a JRE VM pack manually:

1.

Create an archive of the JRE directory.

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For Windows, create a vm.zip archive. Do not use compression and do not retain full path info.

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For OS or OS X, create a vm.zip archive. Do not use compression and do not retain full path info.

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For UNIX, create a vm.tar.Z archive. Create a compressed tarball. For example:

tar -czvf vm.tar.Z jre

2.

Create a vm.properties file. For details, see JRE VM Pack Properties.

3.

Create a ZIP archive of the VM archive (vm.zip or vm.tar.Z) and the vm.properties file. For best results, use maximum compression on this archive.

4.

Rename the resulting ZIP archive:

<CustomVMPack>.vm

See Also

Using the Create JRE VM Pack Wizard

JRE VM Pack Structure

JRE VM Pack Properties