B. Create Image without RR

1. Create a VM

At first you have to create a VM in your cloud provider without using the rrCloudmanager at all.
And then you have to remote connect to this VM.

So far we have a description for Azure:

Create VM in Azure

2. Setup System

Windows

Linux

•If you are using Windows Server and need the browser, then you have to change a setting.
By default, the Server Manager should be opened after you log in. If not, open it.
Select your server from the menu on the left and change the IEE settings in the far right column.

•Set the Windows update policy to urgent updates only.

•Optional: Enable Admin shares, ping, ...

•Optional: Disable Windows stuff you do not need.

•Optional: Set a small swap drive for system apps.
Edit the /etc/waagent.conf file and set following three parameters:
ResourceDisk.EnableSwap=y
ResourceDisk.SwapSizeMB=2048

•Optional: Create an additional user with the commands
adduser myuser
passwd myuser
Add it to the admin group with:
usermod -aG wheel myuser

•Please see Linux/Dependiecies for packages that needs to be installed.

3. Install Apps

Now install all the apps that you need.
(All apps that not setup in RR as shared exe or shared plugin)

How to copy files to the VM?

There are a few ways to get files onto the VM:

•Download files from the Internet directly on the VM.

•Linux: Use an application that can copy files via SSH (SFTP).

•Windows: Use the remote desktop drive share (see above)

•Windows: Enable the admin shares on the VM and copy everything to //machine/d$

Use the temp drive!

You have a few options to get your installer files to the VM.
If you copy the installer to the VM, you might want to use a temp drive if it is provided.
If you extract installers (Like Autodesk), extract it to the temp drive as well.
This keeps the system drive less cluttered and clean.

Azure always offers a temp SSD drive.
This drive is located in D: (\\<IP>\d$) on Windows and /mnt/resources on Linux.

Note: DO NOT change the temp drive location on Azure. RR uses it while rendering!

GPU Image:

If your source image was already a GPU image, then please be sure the driver installation completed.
Check the Device manager if the GPUs are listed and the task manager (tab details) if the process drvinst.exe in still running.

GPU Image:

4. Install the RR cloud service

Windows

Linux

Royal Render v9

•Create a folder on the local drive for the service: C:\Program Files\rrService\

•Copy the following files from from [RR]/bin/win64 into the newly created folder:
rrCloudService.exe
rrKillWait.exe
rrLazyPeasant.exe
7zra.dll
libcrypto-1_1-x64.dll
libssl-1_1-x64.dll
Qt5Core.dll
Qt5Network.dll
rrShared.dll
vcruntime140.dll
vcruntime140_1.dll
msvcp140.dll
msvcp140_1.dll

•Open a console with cmd.exe (as admin) and cd "C:\Program Files\rrService" into the directory.

•Execute rrCloudService /install

•Create a folder on the local drive for the service and a subfolder for the libs
sudo mkdir /usr/local/rrService
sudo mkdir /usr/local/rrService/lib

•Copy the following files from from [RR]/bin/lx64 and [RR]/bin/lx64/lib into the newly created folders:
rrCloudService
rrKillWait
rrLazyPeasant
lib/7z.so
lib/libcrypto.so.1.1
lib/libQt5Core.so.5
lib/libQt5Network.so.5
lib/librrShared.so.1
lib/libssl.so.1.1

•Allow at least all admin users to access the files/folders.
Change the owner to the group wheel (admins on CentOs) with the commandline
sudo chown -R root:wheel /usr/local/rrService

•Add the executable right with the commandlines
sudo chmod -R +x /usr/local/rrService

•Execute
sudo /usr/local/rrService/rrCloudService /install

Note: The service will do some changes to a system once a new or this VM is booted

•It opens the firewall ports to allow ping, ssh/rpd, Azure batch ports, Royal Render ports, windows only: file and printer sharing (includes Admin shares //machine/c$)

•Linux: Allow SSH login via user accounts (Azure Batch disables this)

The service can/will do the following changes if connected to the rrCloudManager.

•Mount drives (according to rrConfig / Paths and drives )

•Match the time zone with rrCloudManager

•Joins the domain (according to rrConfig / Cloud )

•Adds the rrService user to the local admin/wheel group (rrService user is set in rrConfig / Cloud )

•Adds the rrCloudManger and the additional servers to the host file (additional servers are set in rrConfig / Cloud )

•Adds the local VM Admin account (rrConfig / Cloud ) for Azure Batch VMs

•Of course it starts the rrClient

4. Capture Image

Continue with the section >> Capture Image

5. Cleanup

After you have copied the image a storage, you may cleanup the resources in your cloud that are not required any more.
E.g. the VM you used to create this image.