I would like to create a custom image (using mkosi), upload it as a vhd (using qemu-img) to my storage account, so that it supports confidential VMs. What should I do?
Using the portal, in "images" I created one from my VHD and then tried to create a VM from it. However, under security type, when I try to select "Confidential VM", I see "Trusted launch virtual machine is required when using 1P…
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My Ubuntu VM - Unable to SSH over port 22 from my host machine (Unhealthy State)
Specs Operating system Linux (ubuntu 24.04) VM generation V2 VM architecturex64 Agent status Ready Agent version2.13.1.1 See the network settings in below screenshot The current state of the VM is unhealthy. Also received an alert for…
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nvidia-smi command could communicate with nvidia driver (Microsoft azure N series)
Issue Summary: Following this guide, https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linux/n-series-driver-setup I'm having trouble installing NVIDIA GPU drivers on an Azure N-series VM running Ubuntu. I've tried multiple approaches but keep…
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NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver.
I'm trying to install the NVidia drivers on an Azure virtual machine, but when I run the nvidia-smi command, I get the error: NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is…
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Authentication using Entra ID for VM by using bastion not working
Hello, I was testing implementation of authentication using Entra ID for azure virtual machine. I have followed User has role Virtual Machine Administrator Login, installed extension on VM AADLoginForWindows by while creating Azure VM -> Management…
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[Azure] Installing windows feature on Windows Server 2025 takes longer time
Hello, I am trying to install Windows features on a Azure VM with a Windows 2025 Datacenter Azure marketplace image. The install of the feature takes longer time than compare to the previous Windows 2022 Datacenter Azure marketplace image (Please note…
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SSH connection to VM timeouts repeatedly after 1-3 hours
Hi, I am running a Virtual Machine with Ubuntu as OS. and it has ssh connection open at port 22. now this connection keeps getting timed out every few hours and when I restart the VM it works fine. VM metrics do not show anything out of ordinary. How…
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Deallocation problem for VM
The VM gets deallocated. I need it to run 24/7. I am the sole developer of our project and I've minimal knowledge of cloud services, so I might've set this up incorrectly and need to set this up so it runs 24/7 and we get billed from our credit monthly,…
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How to put multiple VMs behind a single private IP address on Azure?
I'm working on creating a Blue/Green deployment for a product in Azure but I'm running into a problem regarding outbound traffic to an on-premisses database. Our initial idea can be seen in this diagram: We have three main "moving parts": A…
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Azure Port open question for integrating SailPoint IIQ with Azure DMZ
We are aware that all IIQ Applications needs IQ Service host machine's port 5050 to be opened for communication. However, wanted to know if the below ports needs to be opened as recommended by Azure to have read/write communication between IIQ…
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Azure maintenance planed
Hello, I have received maintenance notification. I have tried stop/start and redeployed the VM. But the start maintenance buton still present. How can I confirm the maintenance has been fisnished from my side. And why the buton still present
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Start VM on connect
We have configured start vm on connect, but for some reason a handful of vm's are not starting and have to be manually started through Hydra. We see no errors on the logs.
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Unable to Delete Virtual Machines
I re-rolled my master image to a new set of VMs, but I find myself unable to delete the "old" ones. I've done this lots of times without issues. I figured it might be something transitory, so I waited 24 hours, same thing. Also tried deleting…
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How do i set up my VM to be shown here " https://windows365.microsoft.com/ent#/ " in my Azure cloud ?
I have a VM in Azure and can connect to it but how do I publish it on https://windows365.microsoft.com/ent#/ so it comes up , I only get " It looks like your system administrator hasn't set up any resources for ... "
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Cannot delete resorces in resource group and resource group
Hi, About 3 days ago i wanted to test something with virtual machines. So i went up and started configuring a VM trough azure portal. After couple of minutes virtual machine, public IP, NSG, VNET and network interface was created. I tried to connect to…
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How to enable vtpm for a confidential VM using the cli
I am trying to create an Azure Confidential VM using the cli. I already created a Public IP address Network security group Network Interface Disk Network security group and I would like to create the VM. I ran az vm create \ --name azure-temp \ …
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Cannot view virtual machine inventory
We currently have a site to site vpn configured to connect to our azure environment directly from our corporate LAN via vCenter. When accessing the portal (portal.azure.com) from a computer that is connected to the corporate LAN we are unable to view the…
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Site can't be reached
I have an Azure VM set up with a Linux server. When I try to access the IP address from any computer, it suddenly says "The site can't be reached". It worked yesterday, but today it's giving me issues. According to the Azure suggestion, I've…
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Need to add entra user / group to a vm local admin group
I am trying to add an entra security group to a vm local admin group. It can't find the name from the VM computer management and logged in as local admin
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I can not connect to windows VM because of JIT policie
Not sure why but RDP was disabled because of a JIT requirement which required the activation of a paid service Cloud workload protection. I created an exemption in "Management ports of virtual machines should be protected with just-in-time network…