Saturday, August 1, 2015

convert vmware player virtual machine into hyper-V

Below is the way I used to convert vmware player virtual machine into hyper-V virtual machine.
  1. Using below commands to enable and disable Microsoft hypervisor service

    bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off
    bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype auto
    dism.exe /Online /Disable-Feature:Microsoft-Hyper-V
    dism.exe /Online /Enable-Feature:Microsoft-Hyper-V /All

  1. Using virtualbox as tool to convert vmware player virtual machine to VHD format.

  •  install virtualbox 
  •   run command C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VBoxManage.exe clonehd "C:\Users\yiyu\Virtual Box VMs\vm\YiyuJia-Gateway-disk1.vmdk" "C:\yyjia\Hyper-V\VHD\YiyuJia-Gateway.vhd " --format VHD 
  •  create new virtual machine in hyper-v manager and choose using existing VHD file.