custom quick create gallery for hyper-v

background

see my blog post

distros

• q4os trinity
• oracle linux 8
• solus budgie
• arch
• ghostbsd 19.04
• devuan ascii
• fedora silverblue 30
• pop_os!
• scientific linux 7

installing the gallery

tl;dr: open powershell as admin and run

$newValue = New-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Virtualization\"  `
    -Name 'GalleryLocations' -PropertyType MultiString -Value (
    'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sirredbeard/hyper-v-gallery/master/gallery.json',
    'https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=851584')
$newValue.multistring

This adds the custom json from this repo alongside the existing Microsoft json in place.

use included powershell script

1. download add_gallery.ps1
2. if you have not done so already, enable powershell scripts by opening powershell as admin and running: Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser (answer yes)
3. make sure you are admin then cd to the folder with add_gallery.ps1 and run it: .\add_gallery.ps1

removing gallery

use powershell script

1. download rm_gallery.ps1
2. if you have not done so already, enable powershell scripts by opening powershell as admin and running: Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser (answer yes)
3. make sure you are admin then cd to the folder with rm_gallery.ps1 and run it: .\add_gallery.ps1

notes

this project was inspired by the following:

• "How to create a Custom Hyper-V Quick Create VM Gallery" by Thomas Maurer
• "Create a custom virtual machine gallery" by Sarah Cooley
• "Create your custom Quick Create VM gallery" by Lars Iwer