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# Micro Virtual Machine
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Deploy a new virtual machine on the Threefold Grid
- Make sure you have a [wallet](./wallet_connector.md)
- Click on the **Micro Virtual Machine** tab
__Process__ :
![ ](../playground/img/vm.png)
- Fill in the instance name: it's used to reference the VM in the future.
- Choose the image from the drop down (e.g Alpine, Ubuntu) or you can click on `Other` and manually specify the flist URL and the entrypoint.
- Select a capacity package:
- **Small**: {cpu: 1, memory: 2, diskSize: 25 }
- **Medium**: {cpu: 2, memory: 4, diskSize: 50 }
- **Large**: {cpu: 4, memory: 16, diskSize: 100}
- Or choose a **Custom** plan
- Choose the network
- `Public IPv4` flag gives the virtual machine a Public IPv4
- `Public IPv6` flag gives the virtual machine a Public IPv6
- `Planetary Network` to connect the Virtual Machine to Planetary network
- `Wireguard Access` to add a wireguard acces to the Virtual Machine
- `GPU` flag to add GPU to the Virtual machine
- `Dedicated` flag to retrieve only dedicated nodes
- `Certified` flag to retrieve only certified nodes
- Choose the location of the node
- `Country`
- `Farm Name`
- Choose the node to deploy the Virtual Machine on
![](./img/nixos-micro2.png)
* In the section `Environment Variables`, you can add any environment variables that the machine might need
![](./img/nixos-micro3.png)
* In the section `Disks`, You can attach one or more disks to the Virtual Machine by clicking on the Disks tab and the plus `+` sign and specify the following parameters
- Disk name
- Disk size
in the bottom of the page you can see a list of all of the virual machines you deployed. you can click on `Show details` for more details
![](./img/vm_list.png)
You can also go to JSON tab for full details
![ ](../playground/img/vm_json.png)