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Virtual Machines - Generalize

Sets the OS state of the virtual machine to generalized. It is recommended to sysprep the virtual machine before performing this operation. For Windows, please refer to Create a managed image of a generalized VM in Azure. For Linux, please refer to How to create an image of a virtual machine or VHD.

POST https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/{vmName}/generalize?api-version=2024-07-01

URI Parameters

Name In Required Type Description
resourceGroupName
path True

string

The name of the resource group.

subscriptionId
path True

string

Subscription credentials which uniquely identify Microsoft Azure subscription. The subscription ID forms part of the URI for every service call.

vmName
path True

string

The name of the virtual machine.

api-version
query True

string

Client Api Version.

Responses

Name Type Description
200 OK

OK

Other Status Codes

CloudError

Error response describing why the operation failed.

Security

azure_auth

Azure Active Directory OAuth2 Flow

Type: oauth2
Flow: implicit
Authorization URL: https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/authorize

Scopes

Name Description
user_impersonation impersonate your user account

Examples

Generalize a Virtual Machine.

Sample request

POST https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscription-id}/resourceGroups/myResourceGroup/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/myVMName/generalize?api-version=2024-07-01

Sample response

Definitions

Name Description
ApiError

Api error.

ApiErrorBase

Api error base.

CloudError

An error response from the Compute service.

InnerError

Inner error details.

ApiError

Api error.

Name Type Description
code

string

The error code.

details

ApiErrorBase[]

The Api error details

innererror

InnerError

The Api inner error

message

string

The error message.

target

string

The target of the particular error.

ApiErrorBase

Api error base.

Name Type Description
code

string

The error code.

message

string

The error message.

target

string

The target of the particular error.

CloudError

An error response from the Compute service.

Name Type Description
error

ApiError

Api error.

InnerError

Inner error details.

Name Type Description
errordetail

string

The internal error message or exception dump.

exceptiontype

string

The exception type.