I have created a VM on Azure and captured an image from it, which made the VM generalized. Now I don't need the VM resource but when I try to delete it I get the error:

Failed to delete virtual machine

An error occurred while deleting virtual machine and/or any selected resource(s) associated with it. Error: 'Operation 'Update VM' is not allowed on VM '' since the VM is generalized.

CodePudding user response：

This seems to be an limitation when you try to delete the VM manually from Azure . After you have created the VM Snapshot it gives the below error on deletion :

There is a workaround for this issue , that is after creating a snapshot you can delete it by checking the box automatically delete this VM after creating the image like below :

I tested the same in my environment , as we have already created a snapshot earlier , I created another image version for the same vm and then checked the box while creating the image and the VM was successfully deleted :