Hyper V Not Reading ISO Image When Creating New VM's

Question

Short Description

I can't get a newly created Gen 2 VM using defaults and TPM selections to read an ISO image from a USB drive. I used the MS ISO image creation site to make the ISO image on the USB. The error message is attached/inserted.

Long Description

I do already have 2 VM's on the same machine working/running. It was battle over several weeks of trying, tweaking and crossing fingers. Then for some reason the image would load and off we go. So I know the system works, the image works, I just can't get it to reliably work and can't invest a few weeks to triage every time I try to spin up a new VM. I am missing something very basic here and need an experts advice.

Any Hyper-V guru's have advice?

***moved from Windows / Windows 11 / Performance and system failures***

Answer 1

Hi Walter,

Hope you're doing well.

Please refer the following documents:

How to Create and Run Virtual Machines With Hyper-V (howtogeek.com)

Create a Virtual Machine with Hyper-V on Windows 10 | Microsoft Learn

Best Regards

Answer 2

Thanks much for the information.

I was able to figure out my problem and was two-fold.

1. Under the firmware section I had to push boot from network adapter to lower in the boot order as PXE was being called.
2. Under SCSI controller I made the USB with ISO image SCSI O and then hard drive SCSI 1

By doing this is now works as expected.

Thanks again!

Answer 3

I need to try this. Every one of my attempts to create from an ISO is bombing. And yes these are ISOs directly from the MS Evaluation Center.

My official Ubuntu ISO also failed.

PIA

Thanks much for the information.

I was able to figure out my problem and was two-fold.

1. Under the firmware section I had to push boot from network adapter to lower in the boot order as PXE was being called.
2. Under SCSI controller I made the USB with ISO image SCSI O and then hard drive SCSI 1

By doing this is now works as expected.

Thanks again!