create-vm-from-managed-os-disks.md

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Create a virtual machine using an existing managed OS disk with CLI

This script creates a virtual machine by attaching an existing managed disk as OS disk. Use this script in preceding scenarios:

• Create a VM from an existing managed OS disk that was copied from a managed disk in different subscription
• Create a VM from an existing managed disk that was created from a specialized VHD file
• Create a VM from an existing managed OS disk that was created from a snapshot

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Sample script

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Run the script

:::code language="azurecli" source="~/azure_cli_scripts/virtual-machine/create-vm-attach-existing-managed-os-disk/create-vm-attach-existing-managed-os-disk.sh" id="FullScript":::

Clean up resources

Run the following command to remove the resource group, VM, and all related resources.

az group delete --name myResourceGroupName

Sample reference

This script uses the following commands to get managed disk properties, attach a managed disk to a new VM and create a VM. Each item in the table links to command specific documentation.

Command	Notes
az disk show	Gets managed disk properties using disk name and resource group name. Id property is used to attach a managed disk to a new VM
az vm create	Creates a VM using a managed OS disk

Next steps

For more information on the Azure CLI, see Azure CLI documentation.

Additional virtual machine CLI script samples can be found in the Azure Linux VM documentation.