Servara boots a fresh VM into a working system — SSH, a smooth graphical desktop, and the full dev stack — with zero manual OS install and nothing to configure after.
# one elevated command on a Windows + Hyper-V host > servara-run.ps1 ✓ ISO built & verified 4.04 GB ✓ VM created (Gen 2, UEFI) ✓ Unattended install & reboot ✓ Network up · eth0 DHCP ✓ SSH UP · Enhanced Session ready # ... and you're in. No prompts. No yak-shaving.
The papercuts of standing up a Linux dev box on Hyper-V are already solved.
Boots, partitions, installs, and reboots into a ready system — unattended end to end.
Key and password auth ready the moment install finishes. Passwordless sudo. The fast path for real work.
A smooth XFCE desktop right in the Hyper-V window over vsock — responsive input, clipboard, and resize.
Deterministic eth0 + DHCP, with the Hyper-V NIC quirks that silently break TCP already handled.
Python, Django, Node/React, Rust, Nginx, Docker, MySQL — on a minimal, CLI-first XFCE base.
Build the image and deploy a VM from a single script — safe to re-run, atomic, self-verifying.
The same image supports both — it decides from whether an answer file is present.
Boot the image and answer three questions — hostname, password, services — then it installs itself. Nothing to preconfigure.
Fill in an answer file before building and the image installs with your exact settings — hostname, password, services, and an SSH key — no prompts.
| SSH (key or password) | Ready at first boot — the fast path for terminal work. |
| Enhanced Session | A full graphical XFCE desktop inside the Hyper-V console window (RDP over the Hyper-V socket) — no IP or extra client needed. |
| Console | Autologin on the text console for quick checks. |
UEFI (Generation 2) bootable image for Hyper-V or bare metal, amd64.