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Alternative to .ISO file to be used with Hyper-V

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Wednesday, March 26, 2014 10:09 AM

Hi,

I am running Hyperv on Server 2012 R2.

I have .img file and requirement is to NOT to convert to .ISO.
Can we use .img file anyhow with Hyper-V to boot the virtual machine?

N.A.Malik

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Wednesday, August 10, 2016 11:03 AM ✅Answered

Hi,

Started from scratch and everything looks good now.

N.A.Malik

Wednesday, March 26, 2014 10:16 AM

Did you try the following :

In Hyper-V, right-click on the img file then click on Mount. The hyper-v will assign a drive letter to the img file. This technically now acts as a DVD Media. In the Virtual Server go to Settings then to IDE Controller – DVD Drive. Then choose Physical Drive and the letter of the mounted img.

Wednesday, March 26, 2014 12:48 PM

Tried this already, it displays message that media is corrupt.

N.A.Malik

Wednesday, March 26, 2014 1:59 PM

Only way then is to convert the img to iso and see if this works then.

Did you allready test if your .img can be mapped on another device and isn't corrupt ?

Thursday, March 27, 2014 1:39 PM | 1 vote

I tested on Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8, and failed to mount the image file.

N.A.Malik

Friday, March 28, 2014 4:54 PM | 1 vote

Have you tried renaming .img to .iso?

Friday, March 28, 2014 11:25 PM

What created the .img file?  Are you sure it is a valid file and is was not corrupted during its creation?

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Monday, March 31, 2014 2:49 AM

Hi N.A.Malik,

How are things going ?

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Thursday, December 29, 2016 11:44 AM

This worked for me.

I was trying to mount an Office 2013 .img file on a VM. It would let me mount anything other than .iso and I simply renamed the file to .iso and it worked perfectly.