Migrate from VMWare to Hyper-V?

[YokyDoky]

We have a tech running a set of Website-related processes on a virtual Windows 2003 server using VMWare Server 1.x (the free one). Now we have Windows 2008 Server with Hyper-V and are happily running one virtual machine with it. I'd like to migrate the VMWare virtual machine to Hyper-V too, but haven't had luck finding a detailed process. Any tips?

Y. Doky - "Manager" of Systems

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[kmcferrin]

The problem is that Hyper-V (with System Center Virtual Machine Manager) will only convert from ESX to Hyper-V format. There isn't currently a clean way to do the migration. What I would recommend is that you rebuild the image on a Hyper-V VM.

The other thing that might work would be to take an image of the VMware VM (via Ghost, TrueImage, whatever you have handy) and then apply that image to an empty Hyper-V VM shell. When it boots you'll have a lot of cleanup to do with device drivers, and you'll have to uninstall the VMware Tools and install the Hyper-V integration components. But it should work. Mostly.

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