Why are Hyper-V VHDX files not available anymore?

[MrMabulous]

Seems since 32990 there are no Hyper-V VHDX images provided anymore but only Azure VHD images. Why that change? VHDX files provide certain advantages such as shrinking the container.

[doct0rHu]

See this announcement:

Change to Azure image offerings coming soon

As we streamline our content, we are making some changes to the Azure images we offer. These changes are expected to roll out next week. We will be renaming the azure image to azure-hyperv and will be removing the hyperv, azure-machine-learning and azure-docker images. See the migration path for each of the renamed/deprecated images in the table below: The Change User Migration Path Renaming azure image Use azure-hyperv Removing hyperv image Use azure-hyperv as a generation 1 VM. …