Using an ISO image for deploying VM instances
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Updated at July 1, 2024
Issue description
You need to deploy a VM instance in Compute Cloud from an ISO image
Solution
Due to the peculiarities of the Yandex Cloud infrastructure, you cannot deploy a VM instance from an ISO image.
Only QCOW2, VMDK, and VHD hard disk image formats are supported.
For more details about this, see the guide on how to prepare a disk image.
If you need to upload a custom VM image, complete these steps:
- Install the appropriate OS on a local hypervisor. You can use VirtualBox or QEMU for this.
- Prepare your disk image following the instructions from the documentation.
- Upload your image to Object Storage.
- Create a new image from the link obtained in Object Storage.
- Deploy a cloud VM based on the resulting image.
Alert
The above recommendations apply to VM disk images that use the Linux kernel as a guest operating system.
If you need to deploy an image of a product based on Microsoft Windows®, this guide is not for you.