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title: "How Do I Associate An ISO With My Lab Profile?"
slug: "how-do-i-associate-an-iso-image-with-my-lab-profile"
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updated: 2025-04-08T20:00:03Z
published: 2025-04-08T20:00:03Z
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# How Do I Associate An ISO image With My Lab Profile?

You can add an ISO image to any Lab Profile and associate it with your Virtual Machine (VMs). There are two ways to do this:

- Create the media Profile for the ISO image first and then associate it with the Lab Profile
- Create the Media Profile from the Lab Profile itself

Once you are logged in to Skillable Studio:

1. From **Site Administration**, under Lab Profiles, select **Find Lab Profiles**.
2. Input part of the **Lab Series** name, and then select **Search**.
3. In the search results, select the name of the **Lab Profile** you want.
4. On the Lab Profile page, select **Edit**.
5. On the Removable Media tab, select Add**Media**.
6. Use the filters to refine the search results, select **Search**,
7. select the **Media** Profiles wanted and then select OK.
8. Save the **Lab Profile**. By default, once you have added a Removable Media Profile to a Lab Profile, it is available to all virtual machines in that Lab Profile, but not pre-loaded into any VMs at launch. In a launched lab, the user loads the media into a machine the from **DVD Drive** dropdown for the machine on the **Machines** panel in the lab interface.

You can set the Media Profile to pre-load an ISO or floppy into specific **virtual machines** at launch, if needed. To do this:

1. Select the **Virtual Machines** tab in the **Lab Profile**.
2. For the VM using the ISO, expand the dropdown for the **DVD Drive** and change the setting from **No Media** to the Media Profile you just added.
3. Select **Save**.

For floppy disks, you would use the same process with Media Profiles.

Labs in Skillable Studio are housed in a Lab Profile. The Lab Profile contains the information about the configurable settings and the virtual machines that make up a lab. For a Lab Profile to be published it must be part of a Lab Series.

A virtual machine is the virtualization or emulation of a computer system. Virtual machines are based on computer architectures and provide the functionality of a physical computer.