If you manually create the VM and you plan to use the Cisco CSR 1000v REST API, you must configure
the HTTPS port using the Cisco IOS XE CLI.
Note
Figure 5: Task Overview for Manually Creating the Cisco CSR 1000v VM
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Overview of Tasks for Manually Creating the Cisco CSR 1000v VM