Are VHDs compatible between Hyper-V and Virtual Server and Virtual PC?

re: Are VHDs compatible between Hyper-V and Virtual Server and Virtual PC?

Gihan Karunatilake — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:37:07 GMT

Great Article!

re: Are VHDs compatible between Hyper-V and Virtual Server and Virtual PC?

John Howard -MSFT — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:15:19 GMT

Lee - as much as this *may* work, please note that it would not be supported.

Thanks,

John.

re: Are VHDs compatible between Hyper-V and Virtual Server and Virtual PC?

Lee Mitchell — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:55:22 GMT

If you copy the hal and ntoskrnl from c:\windows\servicepackfiles\i386 into c:\windows\system32 (back up the originals first) then you should be able to move from hyper-v to virtual server.

(This is theoretical, I haven't done it in this scenario but when converting p2v I have had to do this so that the generic hal is in place that will allow it to boot so I'm pretty confident it will work. If it doesn't and you get a non-booting machine, attach the vhd to a working virtual machine as an extra disk and restore the backed up hal and ntoskrnl).

re: Are VHDs compatible between Hyper-V and Virtual Server and Virtual PC?

John Howard -MSFT — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:43:24 GMT

Gareth - not that I'm aware of.

Thanks,

John.

re: Are VHDs compatible between Hyper-V and Virtual Server and Virtual PC?

Gareth Marshall — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:51:14 GMT

Would it be possible to switch from Hyper-V to Virtual PC by booting off the OS installation CD and doing some kind of repair?

re: Are VHDs compatible between Hyper-V and Virtual Server and Virtual PC?

Scott Wilson — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:50:24 GMT

Does anyone know how to go from Xen server to Hyper-V? looking for a solution that will not cost alot.

Thanks

Good article explaining compatibility between Hyper-v and former MS virtualization solutions(VPC and Virtual server)

Steven Cheng's MSDN Notes — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:50:07 GMT

John has posted a good blog entry describing how to make vhd image work between VPC/Virtual server and

re: Are VHDs compatible between Hyper-V and Virtual Server and Virtual PC?

John Howard -MSFT — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:31:35 GMT

Anthony - I'm not on the VMM team, but (IIRC), you can use VMM2007 to P2V into a virtual machine under Virtual Server.

You can convert from VS to Hyper-V using the steps documented at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd296684.aspx

Thanks,

John.

re: Are VHDs compatible between Hyper-V and Virtual Server and Virtual PC?

Anthony — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:54:16 GMT

What if I have a server running Server 2003 32 bit, and I use Virtual Machine Manager 2007 (because VMM2008 doesn't run on 32bit) to convert the physical server to a virtual server, then install Server 2008 on another server and run the Server 2003 vhd file as a VM in Hyper-V. Will that work?

re: Are VHDs compatible between Hyper-V and Virtual Server and Virtual PC?

Yuhong Bao — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 10:58:56 GMT

"In theory it is possible to swap the HAL, but not in a Microsoft supported manner (except on Vista and Windows Server 2008 – that’s a post for another day)."

You basically go to Device Manager and use Update Driver and change the HAL to "ACPI PC" or "Standard PC".