A lot of people are making the switch from Virtual Server to Hyper-V lately. I’ve done it on my home network and Thelazyadmin.com servers are in progress of moving to Hyper-V as well. While you can simply copy over the VHD and create a new VM in Hyper-V and mounting that VHD there is a tool that can help you with this task. VMC2HV is a free tool that can be used to import a Virtual Server (or VirtualPC) based VM into Hyper-V. It is a pretty simple tool to use, specify the name and credentials for your Hyper-V server, choose the VMC file of the machine you want to import and click Create Virtual Machine.
A few things to note when using this tool…
- Once the migration is complete you will have to uninstall the VMAdditions and install the Integration Components.
- Installing the Integration Components will update the HAL so going back to Virtual Server/PC will be difficult
- Hyper-V will not boot from virtual SCSI so you will have to move the VMs boot drive to the virtual IDE bus
- You can run this tool on X86 and x64 installs of Windows Vista and Server 2008, locally or remotely from the Hyper-V server.
You can download VMC2HV here!