| 摘要 |
A method for deploying a virtual appliance onto a data processing system solution comprises instantiating the virtual appliance with a basis configuration (450), determines a value of a set of environmental features associated with the virtual processing environment and downloading (475) a set of local software programs (470) onto the virtual appliance according to the values of the features. The downloaded programs may then be installed onto the virtual appliance. The basic configuration may include a deployment agent which undertakes the determining and downloading step. The determining step may submitting a query to a deployment server (405) and receiving a response. The environmental feature may include a line to an external program. |
