https://community.hpe.com/t5/hpe-morpheus-vm-essentials/creating-virtual-machines/m-p/7242844#M255 <P>Dear HPE Team.</P><P>When I try to create a virtual machine from an “ISO” image, I get an error message saying that the image is not in qcow2 format and cannot create the virtual machine.</P><P>If the datastore is NFS, is there any limitation such as not being able to create a virtual machine from an “ISO” image?</P> Tue, 13 May 2025 01:27:17 GMT stb_18564 2025-05-13T01:27:17Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/hpe-morpheus-vm-essentials/creating-virtual-machines/m-p/7242844#M255 <P>Dear HPE Team.</P><P>When I try to create a virtual machine from an “ISO” image, I get an error message saying that the image is not in qcow2 format and cannot create the virtual machine.</P><P>If the datastore is NFS, is there any limitation such as not being able to create a virtual machine from an “ISO” image?</P> Tue, 13 May 2025 01:27:17 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/hpe-morpheus-vm-essentials/creating-virtual-machines/m-p/7242844#M255 stb_18564 2025-05-13T01:27:17Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/hpe-morpheus-vm-essentials/creating-virtual-machines/m-p/7243007#M263 <P>There are no limitations to create a VM from an ISO.&nbsp; I just did a test myself on a 8.0.5 environment.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>One thing to note is that you need to wait for the ISO upload to complete to the NFS share.&nbsp; You can follow the upload process under Library - Virtual Images.&nbsp; The status needs to be "active".</P><P>I noticed this upload of ISO to NFS share can be rather slow.&nbsp; So make sure to verify the status.</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Wed, 14 May 2025 13:50:10 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/hpe-morpheus-vm-essentials/creating-virtual-machines/m-p/7243007#M263 Arnout_Verbeken 2025-05-14T13:50:10Z