Hyper-V "Quick Create" Gallery online?

Question

Hey,

Just wandered into Hyper-V on 21h1 wanting to make a quick VM for something, and stumbled onto the "Hyper-V Quick Create Gallery" on my machine

Was thinking this would probably be the kind of thing where there's a bunch of pre-made VM images on the net somewhere (ala MS Word templates, etc.) but I can't seem to find anything, only instructions on how to roll your own.

2 questions:

1) Is there a resource for more Quick Create VM templates out there somewhere? Like, maybe Azure VMs?

2) If I make a gallery, are there any built-in options for advertising them on a website/other resource via p2p? (e.g. torrent magnet link)

I lied, 3rd question:

Does VMware have any parallel to the Quick Create gallery?

Thanks

UnixGreybeard

Answer 1

Hello,

Thank you for your question.

Please find below answers of your queries.

1) Is there a resource for more Quick Create VM templates out there somewhere? Like, maybe Azure VMs? -
Yes if you have Azure subscription you can create VM from template

2) If I make a gallery, are there any built-in options for advertising them on a website/other resource via p2p? (e.g. torrent magnet link) -
No Microsoft does not support it or recommend it.

3) Does VMware have any parallel to the Quick Create gallery?
No - You will required .iso to create VM

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