I've converted VMWare Server images to Hyper-V using that tool fine (remember to uninstall VMWare Tools first). The only problem I had was the SCSI hard drive adapter. I ended up doing an OS repair, but a colleague pointed out that you can just add an IDE drive to your VMWare Server VM prior to shutting it down and doing the conversion.
Cheers Ken > -----Original Message----- > From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 9 December 2008 12:46 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: VMWARE to Hyper-V and HAL types > > Is there a way to do it at the OS level without using something quite > as....large as SCVMM? I'm keen to not have to learn anything new today in case > my head explodes. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 08 December 2008 13:42 > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: VMWARE to Hyper-V and HAL types > > So...download the 120 day eval and use it to do your imports. > > And, in regards to performance: my tests indicate them being pretty much > neck-and-neck. > > Regards, > > Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP > My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael > I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 8:39 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: VMWARE to Hyper-V and HAL types > > Michael, > > Alas no. We did the import using VMX2vhd on the internet. We don't run SCVMM > here. > > Olly > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 08 December 2008 13:32 > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: VMWARE to Hyper-V and HAL types > > Are you using SCVMMs V2V and/or import capabilities? > > Regards, > > Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP > My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael > I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 8:29 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: VMWARE to Hyper-V and HAL types > > Hi chaps, > > I'm looking at moving our VMWare based VMs to our new Hyper-V based servers. > New VMs are working a treat, and certainly Hyper-V seems far more responsive > than our VMWare based setup. However existing VMWare based VMs are proving > an issue. > > While the VM's have been imported to Hyper-V without any problems it would > appear that the HAL of the VMWare VMs have all been set to 'Standard PC' at > some point during the installation of the guest OS (all Windows 2003). In > order to install the Hyper-V tools we need to be running a ACPI based HAL. > > My question is this; is there a way in Windows 2003 to move from a Standard > PC based HAL to an ACPI based HAL ? I know that MS don't support it (at > least from what i can see on the web), but is there a way to hack a solution > to it ? The only option we have at the moment is to re-install the guest > OS's but that would mean a lot of work and possibly re-config of the apps > running on them. > > Olly ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
