.. _setup_for_azure:
Image Description for Microsoft Azure
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.. sidebar:: Abstract
This page provides further information for handling
Azure disk images built with {kiwi} and references the
following articles:
* :ref:`simple_disk`
A virtual disk image which is able to boot in the Microsoft Azure
cloud framework has to comply the following constraints:
* Hyper-V tools must be installed
* Microsoft Azure Agent must be installed
* Disk size must be set to 30G
* Kernel parameters must allow for serial console
To meet this requirements update the {kiwi} image
description as follows:
1. Software packages
Make sure to add the following packages to the package list
.. note::
Package names used in the following list matches the
package names of the SUSE distribution and might be different
on other distributions.
.. code:: xml
2. Image Type definition
Update the oem image type setup as follows
.. code:: xml
30720
false
An image built with the above setup can be uploaded into the
Microsoft Azure cloud and registered as image. For further
information on how to upload to Azure see:
`azurectl `_