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Convert vhdx to vhd
Hyper-V manager has a quick tool to convert Hyper-V’s vhdx format to vhd format. It is available in the actions pane called “edit disk”. Among the various options there is one which will let you convert the vhdx to vhd format. There is also a PowerShell cmdlet which is reported to do the same thing. By the way, I am trying this conversion to see if I will be able to import a VM from Hyper-V to VMware. Result: Nope, it does not work At the time of importing, VMware client throws up an error. So I am wondering why would one want to do the vhdx to vhd conversion…
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Tool to export Hyper-V VMs to OVF? Yeah right!
Microsoft has provided a tool for exporting out Hyper-V VMs to OVF. They have it’s documentation here. Frankly, this tool is useless. It does not convert Hyper-V’s vhdx format to a format which vSphere or XenServer will understand. All this tool does is to create the XML file with a .ovf extension. I be fair to Microsoft, they do mention this fact in the second paragraph of the technet document (linked above). I used it, it just spits out the exact same vhdx file which I could have got like this:1. stop VM2. copy the vhdx files off the hard disk.Simple! Maybe I was hoping to something better. Now I…