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Virtual Server to Hyper-V Migration

A lot of people are making the switch from Virtual Server to Hyper-V lately. I’ve done it on my home network and Thelazyadmin.com servers are in progress of moving to Hyper-V as well. While you can simply copy over the VHD and create a new VM in Hyper-V and mounting that VHD there is a tool that can help you with this task. VMC2HV is a free tool that can be used to import a Virtual Server (or VirtualPC) based VM into Hyper-V. It is a pretty simple tool to use, specify the name and credentials for your Hyper-V server, choose the VMC file of the machine you want to import and click Create Virtual Machine.

A few things to note when using this tool…

Once the migration is complete you will have to uninstall the VMAdditions and install the Integration Components.
Installing the Integration Components will update the HAL so going back to Virtual Server/PC will be difficult
Hyper-V will not boot from virtual SCSI so you will have to move the VMs boot drive to the virtual IDE bus
You can run this tool on X86 and x64 installs of Windows Vista and Server 2008, locally or remotely from the Hyper-V server.

You can download VMC2HV here!

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