Build Azure Win10 Enterprise OS VM with ISO Image

Question

1) If i have an ISO image of windows 10 OS Enterprise edition, can i build an Azure VM with it ?

2) If we create azure VM with VHD file, then will that VM will have unmanaged disk , i think. Can we make it to have managed disk with the VHD file ?

Answer 1

Hi

You cannot create an Azure VM from an ISO file. you can only create VMs from VHDs, Managed Disks or Managed Disk Images/Snapshots.

If you want to use this ISO in Azure you would need to use something like HyperV on premises to create a VM and then export the VHD and upload to Azure. Make sure you follow this guide to create the VHD in a format Azure can understand:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/upload-generalized-managed

The article below shows how to convert VMs to use managed disks:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/migrate-to-managed-disks

Hope this helps,

Thanks

Michael Durkan

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