See project on github!

Hyper-V Quick Create Gallery Generator

Hyper-V Quick Create is great - but making that .json gallery is a massive pain! Here’s a python script to generate that file for you!

How to use

Organize your gallery like this:

gallery
    └─ Image Name
        ├─ description.txt
        ├─ version.txt
        ├─ details.json
        ├─ logo.png
        ├─ symbol.png
        ├─ thumbnail.png
        └─ disk.vhdx

gallery Root directory of containing image folders

Image Name Name of image in Gallery

discription.txt Paragraph of text describing contents/purpose of image

version.txt Image version number

details.json json array of key/value pairs containing image details

logo.png Company logo displayed on under thumbnail on gallery page

symbol.png Symbol displayed in gallery image list

thumbnail.png Thumbnail of desktop displayed on gallery page

disk.vhdx The virtual machine .vhd or .vhdx disk image

Run generate_new_gallery.py and let it go!

$ python generate_new_gallery.py

The Quick Create gallery requires SHA256 hash of each file. If you have 10GB+ disk images this can take a while…go grab some coffee and watch console progress.

Example

Included in this repo is an example to show how to build you gallery. Remember you need to add the path to gallery.json to registry Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Virtualization.