The Sysprep is not needed however, in most cases, you want to do this. If you create a VHDX file, you will need to create a Hyper-V Generation 2 virtual machine and (usually) Sysprep the virtual machine.

Add the gallery source to the VM Gallery UI.

Create a gallery source (.json file) and create a gallery item (configuration inside the.

But you can also add your own virtual machine templates in the Hyper-V VM Gallery.

For example, the default image is a Windows 10 dev VM, which enables developers to quickly spin up a development environment with Visual Studio. This will open up a virtual machine gallery, which allows you to download different virtual machine images, like Windows 10 or Ubuntu.

(Click screenshot to pop out, click again to enlarge.You might have seen that Hyper-V in Windows 10 got a new Quick Create Feature. When left idle, it settled to 7,662 MB, over 7.5 GB, and remained there constantly as long as VM was idle: In my case, I had to reduce the max RAM allowed to 4 GB after noticing that when browsing Ten Forums on Ubuntu VM, it suddenly used over 8 GB RAM when nothing else than browser with a few tabs was running.īefore setting lower max RAM, the VM was constantly using close to 8 GB. Click Edit settings to change settings, or click Connect:ġ.5) Accepting default settings, you might be surprised how much of host RAM virtual machine's dynamic memory will consume after a few minutes use.

Hyper-V sets number of virtual processors automatically, based on what your host hardware allows.

It will be created using dynamic memory, with 2 GB RAM to start with. 1.1) In Hyper-V Manager, select Quick Create on Actions pane:ġ.2) Select Ubuntu, click Create virtual machine:ġ.3) Pre-made virtual hard disk will be downloaded (1.5 GB):ġ.4) After the download, the file integrity will be verified and virtual machine created.

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