Hello,
I have a server and I wanted to use the "Bring Your Own Image" system to install a Windows Server 2025 version with everything I need. I’ve tried looking for tutorials or guides on how to create my own image, but I haven’t found anything. I already have another server on OVH running Windows, and I wanted to be able to export all my content without compatibility issues.
However, there is no guide anywhere on how to create a .raw image. In OVH’s documentation, the only information about the system is a very basic explanation of how to “import” an image, but that doesn’t help if I don’t have anything to import.
If someone could guide me a little, I would be immensely grateful!
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03.04.2025 15:26
Hello,
I think I've heard of people installing Windows Server inside VirtualBox and exporting the disk (as qcow2 or raw, not sure which one).
Did you look at https://github.com/ovh/bringyourownlinux? If you missed it, should we make the link more visible in the doc? https://github.com/ovh/docs/blob/b2eb95a79e2b7993ce1dd3c819a6170e7bd43fe8/pages/bare_metal_cloud/dedicated_servers/bring-your-own-linux/guide.en-gb.md#L208