The file format is mostly the same but there are size limitation
differences between the 3.

However, the emulated hardware is VERY different. You can't expect a
VPC/VS VM to run in Hyper-V (though it mostly should), and a hyper-V
VM will not run in VS/VPC if it's got the integration components
installed or is Hyper-V aware.

>Any ideas and hints?

No clue if that's your problem, just general info.

--
Bob Comer






On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:42:03 +0100, Detlef Knut <detlef_knut@newsgroup>
wrote:

>Hi,
>
>my first question is: Is there any difference in VHD file format between
>VPC/ VS2005 and Hyper-V?
>
>After getting access from HVManger to the Server by running thru all
>John Howard hints, I'm able to ceate a VM until that point to attach a
>harddisk. I used a System which is used on different machines with VPC
>and VS. Shortly after selecting the VHD file I get an RPC error mainle
>because the host system hangs. Now I figured out that all is fine (host
>runs more than one hour, hv manager will stay connected etc.) until the
>vhd file should be attached to the vm. Only a second and the host hangs.
>Starting the vhd with vpc on an other system works fine.
>
>Any ideas and hints?
>ThanQ
>Detlef K.

>Thanks Bob, this is helpful. But I dont like to believe it. The hole MS

>is offering a lot of VM f.e. Contoso, Training etc.

Those were built to run on Virtual Server, and yes, I don't think you
can expect to run them on Hyper-v well without first uninstalling the
additions.

They really are very different virtualization products...

--
Bob Comer





On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:14:49 +0100, Detlef Knut <detlef_knut@newsgroup>
wrote:

>Am 17.02.2010 15:59, schrieb Robert Comer:

>> You can't expect a
>> VPC/VS VM to run in Hyper-V (though it mostly should)

>
>Thanks Bob, this is helpful. But I dont like to believe it. The hole MS
>is offering a lot of VM f.e. Contoso, Training etc. It can't be that all
>this hundreds of VMs will not work within a new host system. But I will
>try another vhd file to be sure.
>
>Detlef K.

Hi Detlef,

>>Detlef K. wrote
>>Thanks Bob, this is helpful. But I dont like to believe it. The hole MS
>>is offering a lot of VM f.e. Contoso, Training etc. It can't be that all
>>this hundreds of VMs will not work within a new host system. But I will
>>try another vhd file to be sure.

As Robert already pointed out they are build on a totally "different"
plattform from hypervisor perspective.
It really depends on guest OS but an uninstallation of the VS additions
would possibly work in some cases. The most problem here is the installed
HAL architecture (hal.dll).

If not there are also documented ways to resolve this issue:
Virtual Machine Migration Guide: How To Migrate from Virtual Server to
Hyper-V
http://technet.microsoft.com/de-de/l...84(WS.10).aspx

Hope that helps

Regards
Ramazan

Thanks. Yesterday I figured out that it has nothing to do with my
VS-VHD, maybe. I created a new VM. I can do it frome the remote Win7 HV
manager. But only as long as I create the virtual disk. Without
installing an OS. I only wanted to see that this VM starts and tells me
that there is an OS missing. But no. During finishing the creating of
the vhd the host hangs and HVmanager get the RPC error. Looking after
reboot at the host, the new VM is to see and switched off. Looking at
its properties, the system has no harddisk. This is not usual.

Detlef K.

Am 18.02.2010 21:19, schrieb RCan:

> If not there are also documented ways to resolve this issue:
> Virtual Machine Migration Guide: How To Migrate from Virtual Server to
> Hyper-V
> http://technet.microsoft.com/de-de/l...84(WS.10).aspx

forgotten to say, Ramazan and Bob. Your hints helps me because I ignored
this chapter of the manuals because I couldn´t imagine. If I read about
migration I was thinking of VMware or something else b ut not VS.

Detlef

>During finishing the creating of

>the vhd the host hangs and HVmanager get the RPC error. Looking after
>reboot at the host, the new VM is to see and switched off. Looking at
>its properties, the system has no harddisk. This is not usual.

Definitely not usual! By when it hangs, it sounds like something is
damaged in the host install, but maybe it could be disk problems of
some kind. (Not enough space or a physical disk error, or a
communication problem if the VHD is not local on the server.)

--
Bob Comer



On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:09:53 +0100, Detlef Knut <detlef_knut@newsgroup>
wrote:

>Thanks. Yesterday I figured out that it has nothing to do with my
>VS-VHD, maybe. I created a new VM. I can do it frome the remote Win7 HV
>manager. But only as long as I create the virtual disk. Without
>installing an OS. I only wanted to see that this VM starts and tells me
>that there is an OS missing. But no. During finishing the creating of
>the vhd the host hangs and HVmanager get the RPC error. Looking after
>reboot at the host, the new VM is to see and switched off. Looking at
>its properties, the system has no harddisk. This is not usual.
>
>Detlef K.