Comments on: VMware to Hyper-V migration easier than expected

By: admin

admin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:37:40 +0000

I have not tested this, so I can’t say for sure, but I’m with you. I believe replacing the HAL will take care of this. Additionally, the hypervisor (VMware, Xen, Hyper-V, etc.) abstracts the CPU architecture from the VM. If the VM relies on IO APIC, PAE/NX, VT-x/AMD-V, or nested paging, then make sure you don’t go backwards on technology (ex: from a Intel X5500 proc to an Intel Penium4, or from 64bit to 32bit).

By: GScully

GScully — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:01:50 +0000

This sounds good, will it work if the vmware host uses amd and the new server is intel? I’d assume yes as the hal is being replaced but it would be nice to have confirmation.

By: Matthew Kaye

Matthew Kaye — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 12:04:13 +0000

This is a great guide. Let me add a couple of things I came across. I could not install the Hyper-V add-ons because only acpi multiprocessor pc is supported, however I had made the changes on the hal as directed above. I came across and article that said to remove Standard PC under Computer in devise manager and then I could install the addons. I also recomment adding the boot.ini option before converting yr machine.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:44:00 +0000

Nice find! Thanks for the feedback.

By: Alan Surrette

Alan Surrette — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:35:49 +0000

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/virtualmachinemgrp2vv2v/threads

Found it in the forums… After uninstalling the Backup Exec agent, everything works just fine!

Thanks.

By: Alan Surrette

Alan Surrette — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:31:44 +0000

I’m mirgating 5 VM guests to Hyper-V now. The two Server 2003 VMs migrated just fine. I actually used VMWare Converter 4 and the VMDK to VHD converter tool. Then, I installed the HV components and manually uninstalled the VMTools and VMWare Converter. It worked well on those. This process has not worked so well on teh three Windows 2000 VMs. Everything seems ok, except about 12-15 services will not start automatically. I can manually start them, but that’s not really an option. In hopes of solving the issue, I downloaded the evaluation version of SCVMM (which IS really awesome, BTW). It converts the machines much faster, but gives me the same issue. If anyone has any ideas, I would love to hear them! I may try something more along the lines of your process next. Thanks!

By: admin

admin — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:29:58 +0000

Good catch! I updated that post. Thanks for the comment.

By: Bryan Wall

Bryan Wall — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:02:26 +0000

Did you mean vmtoolkit.com? (Step 16) vmtools.com is a spam site…