

Prepare a custom image by using Hyper-V Manager For more information, read the Moving from a Physical Lab to Azure Lab Services blog post.

When you move images from a physical lab environment to Lab Services, restructure each image so that it only includes software needed for a lab's class. You'll need permission to create an Azure managed disk in your school's Azure subscription to complete the steps in this article.

For information on using a VHD to create custom images for other distributions, see Generic steps for Linux distributions. In this article, we'll show the steps to bring a custom Ubuntu 16.04\18.04\20.04 image from a VHD. Every distribution is different because each one has unique prerequisites that must be set up to run on Azure. The steps to bring a custom Linux image from a VHD varies for each distribution. Before you use this approach for creating a custom image, read Recommended approaches for creating custom images to decide which approach is best for your scenario.Īzure endorses a variety of distributions and versions. With this approach, you create a VHD from your physical environment and import the VHD into a compute gallery so that it can be used within Azure Lab Services. The steps in this article show how to import a Linux custom image that starts from your physical lab environment.
