Issue while creating image from source image using az image create

I’m trying to create a new VM using an existing VM that I’ve setup recently.

I’m following this official tutorial but I’m having issue with this step to create an image using the source vm

az image create --resource-group ontarget-servers --name myImage --source int-server-vm

It throws error:

Source Virtual Machine 'int-server-vm' specified in the request does not exist in this Azure location. 

Not sure what exactly is the problem. But this vm is exactly in the same resource-group that I’ve mentioned above. And also, I have only one resource group so far. I couldn’t find any solution or more information about what actually is the issue.

Had this process been available from GUI, I would have done it that way. But seems like replicating a vm to create a new one is only an option using Azure CLI and I’m stuck here.

[yugangw-msft]

it is likely the region doesn’t match. Your command doesn’t provide the location arg, so CLI defaults to the location of group ontarget-servers , but if the location of int-server-vm is different, an error will occur. To create the image, the location must match. It doesn’t matter whether they are from the same resource group or not

[tmarshall]

Would be great to add this clarification to the azure docs.