With Hyper-V we can change our firewall rules to allow us to copy files to a chosen installation folder, copy the ISO to the server, and then we can point the DVD drive of the guest virtual machine to use the ISO image file located in the directory we created containing our ISO image. Having ISO media for use in installing our guest operating system is perhaps the easiest way to quickly access the installation files. Netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="File and Printer Sharing" new enable=No Thoughts Now you can simply copy and past ISO images to the newly created folder.Īfter we have copied the ISO image to the server, as you can see on the guest virtual machine below, we can point the DVD Drive to the Image file and browse to our folder that we created on the root of the D: drive.įinally, we can disable the file and printer sharing firewall rules we allowed above if we choose to do that by simply changing our "Yes" to a "No". In the test environment below, a folder called ISOs has been created. Once, you are connected to the Hyper-V drive share, you can create a folder for the ISOs if you want. If we want to copy the ISO file to a folder on the D:\ drive on our host, we can simply map a network drive to the D$ admin share. To copy over the ISO file, we can simply map a network drive to our Hyper-V host. Netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="File and Printer Sharing" new enable=Yes To enable file and printer sharing in the firewall, run the following command on the Hyper-V host. This guide assumes you do not have the Windows Subsystem for Linux installed on Windows 10, because then it would be easier for you to simply use the verification instructions for Linux via WSL.
The easiest way to get the ISO file to our Hyper-V host is to allow file and print sharing firewall rules, copy our ISO file to the host, and then disable file and printer sharing in the firewall rules of our Hyper-V host firewall if we choose. Since the image file verification remains an issue for many Windows users, heres a detailed guide on how to do it on Windows. After successful extract you can see your file by clicking show. Now you should see extracting pop-up wait till it finishes.
In windows, just click on the usb drive in windows explorer as usual to see files, drag n drop, etc. Write files to the stick using your favorite editor, and read with your file manager or editor apps, drag n drop, etc. Now click on the extract here option in the options menu. In Linux, you can mount the stick with mount -t vfat /dev/XYZ.
In case you are also interested in how to install Nutanix CE, click here. Then right-click on it, and you will see the options menu. How to mount an ISO image/file under Linux H ow do you mount ISO file on Linux using the CLI and GUI app First, try to understand an ISO image. In this article I will explain how to upload an ISO file to Nutanix. The process to copy our ISO file to Hyper-V host is fairly simple. First, find your iso file where it is located.