# Full Virtual Machine

Deploy a new full virtual machine on the Threefold Grid

- Make sure you have a [wallet](./wallet_connector.md)
- Click on the **Full Virtual Machine** tab

**Process:**


![ ](../playground/img/new_vm1.png)

- Fill in the instance name: it's used to reference the Full 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
  - To deploy a Full VM with GPU, you first need to [rent a dedicated node](../dashboard/portal/dashboard_portal_dedicated_nodes.md#filter-and-reserve-a-gpu-node)
- `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 Full Virtual Machine on 


![ ](../playground/img/new_vm3.png)
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

![ ](../playground/img/new_vm5.png)
You can also go to JSON tab for full details
![ ](../playground/img/weblet_vm6.png)

## Difference Between Full Virtual Machine and Micro Virtual Machine

- Full VM contains a default disk attached to it which is not the case in the Micro VM where you needed to make sure to attach a disk to it or the VM will fail
- The default disk is mounted on / so if you want to attach any additional disks, you have to choose a different mounting point
- Only cloud init flists can be deployed on Full VM. You can check official Threefold flists [here](https://hub.grid.tf/tf-official-vms)
- In Full VM, you need to mount the additional disks manually after the VM is deployed

## Manually Mounting Additional Disk

- You can follow the following commands to add your disk manually:

### Check all disks attached to the VM

```bash
fdisk -l
```

### The additional disk won't be mounted and you won't find it listed

```bash
df -h
```

### Create mount dir

```bash
sudo mkdir /hdd6T
```

### New file system

```bash
sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/vdb
```

### Mount drive

```bash
sudo mount /dev/vdb /hdd6T/
```

![mounting additional disk](img/fullvm6.png)