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Sunday, April 26, 2015 8:12 AM
Is there any available option to map an installation source file (.ISO) to my Azure virtual machine? This is to save my time downloading from Microsoft Download Center. I also want to install from the scratch.
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Sunday, April 26, 2015 12:07 PM ✅Answered | 1 vote
Hi Thuan,
Thanks for posting here.
At first you need to map the drive where you have ISO image.
This can be done while RDP'ing, you have an option to select the drive that you want to mapped. Once you have the drive mapped onto to Azure VM, you will see that on My computer/this PC. You should then copy the ISO image to C:\ drive.
Then you can follow the below steps to mount ISO image.
1, On Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview, log in as Administrator.
2. Launch "Windows Explorer", navigate to C drive.
3. Right-click the ISO file.
4. Click "Mount".
Remark: We can also perform "Mount-DiskImage -ImagePath <Image location>" to mount a ISO and VHD file.
To dismount the disk image, we can perform "Dismount-DiskImage -ImagePath <Image location>" to dismount it.
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Hope this helps you.
Girish Prajwal
Sunday, April 26, 2015 11:42 AM
Till today, Azure do not provide a way to mount an ISO file stored on a blob storage to a VM. I know they have to think about it but maybe in a future feature.
Alternatives ?
You can convert your ISO to a VHD file then mount it to your VM
You can access the BLOB storage from your VM and then download it and mount it in your OS
Regards, Samir Farhat Infrastructure and Virtualization Consultant || Virtualization, Cloud, Azure ? Follow and Ask here https://buildwindows.wordpress.com
Sunday, April 26, 2015 3:49 PM
Please can you tell us your aim ?
Do you want to attach an ISO file that is located on Azure on located on another non Azure location (Your computer from which you are connected
Regards, Samir Farhat Infrastructure and Virtualization Consultant || Virtualization, Cloud, Azure ? Follow and Ask here https://buildwindows.wordpress.com
Sunday, November 4, 2018 9:43 AM
Hi,
Here the VM is already created. I think the question is (even it is my question) if I have a valid ISO file on my local machine, say RHEL 6.9 Update 3 x64, how can I use that ISO to create an Azure VM (OS: RHEL 6.9 Update 3 x64) using that ISO file in my local machine?
Regards,
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Sunday, November 4, 2018 9:45 AM
Here the VM is already created. I think the question is (even it is my question) if I have a valid ISO file on my local machine, say RHEL 6.9 Update 3 x64, how can I use that ISO to create an Azure VM (OS: RHEL 6.9 Update 3 x64) using that ISO file in my local machine?
Regards