How to create a Custom Hyper-V Quick Create VM Gallery
You might have seen that Hyper-V in Windows 10 got a new Quick Create Feature, this will open up a virtual machine gallery, which allows you to download different virtual machine images. For example the default image is a Windows 10 dev environment, which allows developers to quickly spin up a development environment with Visual Studio inside a Hyper-V virtual machine. If you want to create your own items in the Hyper-V VM Gallery.
To do that you simple have to do three things:
- Create a virtual machine image (a .iso or compatible .vhdx file)
- Create a gallery source (.json file) and create a gallery item (configuration inside the .json file)
- Add the gallery source to the VM Gallery UI