Building Virtual Appliances Through Ant Task-Based Build

InstallAnywhere 2022

You can build virtual appliances using an Ant task in your build.xml file. A sample Ant task is provided below:

<project name="mytask" default="testbuild" basedir=".">

    <taskdef name="buildinstaller" classname="com.zerog.ia.integration.ant.InstallAnywhereAntTask">         <classpath>

            <pathelement path="C:\Program Files\InstallAnywhere 2022\resource\

                build\iaant.jar"/>

        </classpath>

    </taskdef>

    <target name="testbuild">

        <buildinstaller IALocation="C:\Program Files\InstallAnywhere 2022"

            IAProjectFile="D:\Demo.iap_xml" buildAppliance="true">

            <applianceConfiguration name="A1" />

            <applianceConfiguration name="A2" />

        </buildinstaller>

    </target>

</project>

See Also

Build Output for VMware vSphere 5 Virtual Appliances

Build Output for Amazon EC2 Virtual Appliances