I’ve been using Windows 8 for more than a year, but only in a virtual machine running in VMware workstation. Recently I have been using my laptop in a dual-boot configuration, which works but confuses the Windows 7 disk which always requires a disk check on booting. I finally have a licensed Windows 8.1 as my primary OS (still in dual boot) which I can use to migrate my lab from VMware Workstation to Hyper-V.<\/p>\n
Now VMware workstation is a fantastic product and has Hyper-V is not quite up to the same level yet. However, Hyper-V has one big advantage on Windows 8.1: it is free with the operating system. so the task begins to migrate VMware to Hyper-V. I have several Windows Servers which form a lab for CBT nuggets as well as some Linux and Centos hosts and some legacy laptops which I have P2Vd.<\/p>\n
The logical place to start seems to be\u00a0to download and install the Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter 3.0. However, this is taking a wrong turn at Albuquerque. The converter downloads and installs fine. But it is a server product which converts machines from an ESXi server to a Hyper-V host running Windows Server.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0 I’ve been using Windows 8 for more than a year, but only in a virtual machine running in VMware workstation. Recently I have been using my laptop in a dual-boot configuration, which works but confuses the Windows 7 disk which … Continue reading disk2vhd\u00a0<\/code>from sysinternals would seem like another option but no, it will not read vmdks that I can see.\u00a0It might just be the case that I have to backup my VMs and restore them. A common result in search is\u00a0http:\/\/www.starwindsoftware.com\/converter<\/a>. I will investigate this and report in the next post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"