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

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MSDN Blog Postings » VHD compatibility between Hyper-V and Virtual Server — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:19:51 GMT

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VHD compatibility between Hyper-V and Virtual Server

Noticias externas — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:34:06 GMT

Honestly I was shocked when I read John's recent post about " Are VHDs compatible between Hyper

VHD compatibility between Hyper-V and Virtual Server

News — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:48:49 GMT

Honestly I was shocked when I read John's recent post about " Are VHDs compatible between Hyper

VMBus fails to load (device cannot find enough free resources Code 12) on a Windows Server 2008 x86 virtual machine under Hyper-V

John Howard — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:12:31 GMT

There is one particular scenario where you could be faced with this when booting a VM using Hyper-V.

VHD compatibility between Hyper-V and Virtual Server

VolkerW's WebLog — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:39:39 GMT

Honestly I was shocked when I read John's recent post about " Are VHDs compatible between Hyper-V

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

Joel Chambers — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:56:19 GMT

I hope that this compatibility issue can be updated to include the ability to remove the "Integration Components" from any state of Hyper-V virtual machine so it could be installed on a MS Virtual PC (2004-2007) or MS Virtual Server 2005 R2 version; once it gets out of Beta.

As I am on the subject of dream requests, being able to support conversions from Physical to Vitual with a seemless tool like VMware's "Converter" utility would be a lot less painful than the Microsoft route.

Oh and heck, why not ask for a solution only the uterly insane might request, compatibiliy with actual VMware virtual machine files; or perhaps a means to convert VMDK to VHD integrated into the non-Beta version of Hyper-V?

One can always dream.

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

Chris Beckett — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:10:31 GMT

Even the straight migration back and forth between Virtual PC 2007 and Hyper-V does not really work. I have a MOSS development environment running under Virtual PC 2007 with Office 2007, etc. When I boot it under Hyper-V it tells me the hardware has changed significantly and that I have to re-activate Windows. This is also true of SharePoint Designer 2007 and possibly other Microsoft applications. Having to re-activate the OS and Office apps every time you boot it between VPC2007 and Hyper-V does not seem like a reasonable option to me?

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

Milan@informatika.com — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:50:14 GMT

Success!

I made W2003 R2 SP2 Std Edt 32bit VM under Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1, migrated VHD to Hyper-V, installed Integration Services, created new machine, et voila! It worked well.

Then I was asked to move it back to Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1. I've tried with Uninstalation of Intergation services, but didn't work. Then I mounted VHD as drive letter and replaced HAL.DLL with old one. IT WORKS !!!!

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pascals.blog — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:41:55 GMT

Nous voici donc à la troisième étape de notre prise en main d'Hyper-V sur une configuration

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

MrGroove — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:36:48 GMT

I appreciate the article. I've just posted a recent How-To on the conversion side. Hope this helps.

http://www.groovypost.com/howto/microsoft/windows-server/migrate-microsoft-virtual-server-2005-r2-vm-to-windows-server-2008-hyper-v/

Virtual PC och Virtual Server VHD:s i Hyper-V?

Maria Lundahl IT Pro Evangelist — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:30:45 GMT

Ja det går alldeles utmärkt att boota en VHD fil som du skapat med Virtual PC eller Virtual Server i

Off-topic things and some Hyper-V goodies (resources, backup and AzMan scope scripts)

Andrzej's "IT Thoughts" Weblog — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:27:34 GMT

Lately it's been very quiet on my blog. There are a couple of things to that. First and foremost there

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

Morthorst — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:15:14 GMT

Any news of coverting from Hyper-V to Virtual Server an Virtual PC? I have developers needing this possibility from time to time? I have heard that converting x86 VHDs with WSS or MOSS (SharePoint) could give problems, any comment's on that one and I would appreciate it?

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

jhoward — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:09:03 GMT

Morthorst - no, I've never heard of that (MOSS/WSS going TO Hyper-V). Can you provide a pointer to something for me to investigate? The other way back can be problematic as I discussed above. I would recommend if that is required to keep a backup of the original VHD and configuration under Virtual PC/Virtual Server.

Thanks

John.

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

Yuhong Bao — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:45 GMT

"I guess that some Linux flavours with appropriate boot switches may be OK, but I’m no expert in this area."

Linux do not use HALs and instead include code for all combinations in the kernel, thus it should always work.

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

jhoward — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:05:55 GMT

Thank Yuhong. Appreciate the clarification.

Cheers,

John.

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Convertire una macchina Hyper-V in VMware

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Convertire una macchina Hyper-V in VMware

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".

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?

jhoward — 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.

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?

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

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?

jhoward — 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?

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?

jhoward — 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.

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

MSDN Blog Postings » VHD compatibility between Hyper-V and Virtual Server

VHD compatibility between Hyper-V and Virtual Server

VHD compatibility between Hyper-V and Virtual Server

VMBus fails to load (device cannot find enough free resources Code 12) on a Windows Server 2008 x86 virtual machine under Hyper-V

VHD compatibility between Hyper-V and Virtual Server

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Prise en main d'Hyper-V : 3 - Installer Hyper-V

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Virtual PC och Virtual Server VHD:s i Hyper-V?

Off-topic things and some Hyper-V goodies (resources, backup and AzMan scope scripts)

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

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Convertire una macchina Hyper-V in VMware

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

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