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Old 11-13-2008   #1 (permalink)
Blake


 
 

moving from KVM to Hyper-V

I have two existing VMs, the file image is the qcow2 format supported by KVM
on linux.

I'd like to move these 2 machines to my new shiny Hyper-V platform. How
might I convert these images to something Hyper-V can use?

Thanks much,
Blake



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Old 11-20-2008   #2 (permalink)
Blake


 
 

Re: moving from KVM to Hyper-V

for those of you interested, here was my work around

1) use qemu-img to convert the qcow2 images to vmdk
2) use vmdk2vhd utility from vmtoolkit.com to convert to vhd
3) boot the new image into Hyper-V and perform a repair from the original
media (my vhd files would blue screen on boot due to a driver problem, I'm
guessing)

After repair the VM would boot OK under Hyper-V

Blake


"Blake" <blake.duffey@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have two existing VMs, the file image is the qcow2 format supported by
>KVM on linux.
>
> I'd like to move these 2 machines to my new shiny Hyper-V platform. How
> might I convert these images to something Hyper-V can use?
>
> Thanks much,
> Blake
>

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