Hyper-V R2 Import/Export – Part 6 - So, what happened to Configuration-only export?

re: Hyper-V R2 Import/Export – Part 6 - So, what happened to Configuration-only export?

Jaans — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 12:52:02 GMT

Import Script doesn't work on Windows Server 2008 R2 with latest updates asof 27 Jan 2013

re: Hyper-V R2 Import/Export – Part 6 - So, what happened to Configuration-only export?

dominlodz — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 08:33:05 GMT

Hello All,

I have as I thing very similar problem,

beacuse there's something wrong with my Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V Server,

I would like to reinstall this OS, but I'm having a lot of vm's with a lot of snapshots on them,

so I would like to export all about vm configs at all,

so does this sctipt could do that ?

I don't want a situation when I taking a export config od hyper-v, next reinstalling the whole server, import configs and there's something wrong with vm's snapshots etc

please for help

re: Hyper-V R2 Import/Export – Part 6 - So, what happened to Configuration-only export?

Hyper-V Admin — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:17:18 GMT

Looks like they're going to fix this in Windows 8

blogs.msdn.com/.../windows-8-beta-allows-to-import-a-vm-from-plain-files.aspx

re: Hyper-V R2 Import/Export – Part 6 - So, what happened to Configuration-only export?

Yaz — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:46:29 GMT

One simple way (provided no snapshots) is to remove the vhd's (remember where they are located), do the export, and then add them back in again.

You can't do it if you have a snapshot, because you are only removing the avhd - the vhd will still be copied.

re: Hyper-V R2 Import/Export – Part 6 - So, what happened to Configuration-only export?

Curious — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:32:56 GMT

I am new to scripting, how do I execute these scripts? I have a Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V full host.

re: Hyper-V R2 Import/Export – Part 6 - So, what happened to Configuration-only export?

Sam — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:32:11 GMT

Yeah, I'm a Microsoft employee, and the fact that this feature was removed from the UI really annoys me. It would seem that our Windows product group is somewhat out of step with the consumers of our Enterprise products. Guys, if you're listening to this, please put this back in the product. Powershell is great, but please don't make something that used to be so simple, such a pain in the ***. ;-)

re: Hyper-V R2 Import/Export – Part 6 - So, what happened to Configuration-only export?

Gert — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:06:50 GMT

Please if someone from MS is reading this please respond. We all seem to agree on this.

1) Why all the messing around with xml and linked locations that almost no one can manually edit?

2) Why removing the configonly export? I don't mind that you hide it a bit but just provide it please.

re: Hyper-V R2 Import/Export – Part 6 - So, what happened to Configuration-only export?

Gaz — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:39:35 GMT

I find it beyond belief that MSFT finds it acceptable for us to have to mess about with .xml files, folders and other nonsense, when, vmware can just store its configuration in a single .vmk file.

why cant it just work on one file. then you copy the file and the .vhds to a new server and then import it back in.

what a load of nonsense.

re: Hyper-V R2 Import/Export – Part 6 - So, what happened to Configuration-only export?

Ken — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:25:47 GMT

Hmm...Question: a)Leave it as it is, or b) Make it better. Microsoft's answer: c) Make it worse.

Yes, I too need the Export config only option, only to have found it mysteriously gone in R2. This was the answer to the export permissions issue (destination network folder requiring hyper-v machine account permission - no we don't all have our hyper-v servers on the domain in order to grant machine account permissions on folders) and the usual Microsoft local disk bloat.

re: Hyper-V R2 Import/Export – Part 6 - So, what happened to Configuration-only export?

GMO — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:34:47 GMT

This is killing me right now. I have limited resources and depend on export config only... I may have to buy some USB HDDs to get the job done -_-