how to move VM from vmware workstation to hyper-V
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Hi everybody
i have vmware installed on my windows machine (hypervisor type 2) and i have one vm installed on it (configured freePBX) and i want to import/export to hyper-V hypervisor, can you give me some enlightenment regarding how to achieve this ??
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No matter what the "source" of a VM is, you can do a P2V process and convert it as if it was any generic physical machine.
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You should always state what you are coming from rather than what you are not coming from. That you don't have ESXi we know, that you have a Type 2 hypervisor we know, but you never mentioned what hypervisor it is. It would have been much faster and far more useful to tell us what you are using rather than one specific thing that you are not using (that we already knew from the Type 2 information
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Common Type 2 Hypervisors include:
- MS Virtual Server
- VMware Server (formerly GSX)
- MS Virtual PC
- Oracle VirtualBox
- VMware Fusion
- Parallels
- VMware Workstation
- VMware Viewer
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@scottalanmiller said:
You should always state what you are coming from rather than what you are not coming from. That you don't have ESXi we know, that you have a Type 2 hypervisor we know, but you never mentioned what hypervisor it is. It would have been much faster and far more useful to tell us what you are using rather than one specific thing that you are not using (that we already knew from the Type 2 information
i mention in my post that i'm gonna use Hyper-V hypervisor, do you mean the version then you are right, i'm gonna use Hyper-V Server 2012 R2
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@IT-ADMIN said:
i mention in my post that i'm gonna use Hyper-V hypervisor, do you mean the version then you are right, i'm gonna use Hyper-V Server 2012 R2
Version is valuable as well. But I meant that you mentioned that you are coming from a type 2 hypervisor rather then from ESXi but you did not mention what hypervisor it was. In case there is a good V2V path to take, we can't answer because we don't know what platform you are coming from, only what you are not coming from.
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the current VM machine is installed on a VMware Workstation 10.0.7 and i want to move it to Hyper-V server 2012 R2
sorry for any confusion
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Since you're using workstation. You can launch VMware Workstation and you should be open on the "Home" tab. From there you can choose the Physical to Virtual option (P2V) and go through the process steps accordingly.
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do you mean "virtual a phisical machine" option ??
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You need to use the Hyper-V P2V tools. This has nothing to do with your existing Hypervisor.
Download and install this to convert your existing VM.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42497 -
@BBigford said:
Since you're using workstation. You can launch VMware Workstation and you should be open on the "Home" tab. From there you can choose the Physical to Virtual option (P2V) and go through the process steps accordingly.
I think that that only applies to converting to ESXi.
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@JaredBusch said:
You need to use the Hyper-V P2V tools. This has nothing to do with your existing Hypervisor.
Download and install this to convert your existing VM.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42497
Oh I see. It is a very important information. But if I use xenserver I must use a tool to import my vm from vmware workstation -
@scottalanmiller said:
@BBigford said:
Since you're using workstation. You can launch VMware Workstation and you should be open on the "Home" tab. From there you can choose the Physical to Virtual option (P2V) and go through the process steps accordingly.
I think that that only applies to converting to ESXi.
It sounded like he was working within VMware Workstation (for whatever the reasoning) and moving to Hyper-V instead of continuing with a VMware hypervisor. I figured OP could convert the server to virtual, then import it into Hyper-V. I think I should have simply recommended Disk2VHD instead and cut out VMware as the middle man...
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I'm confused, if you convert from one type of VMware virtual to another, does that make importing to HyperV easier?
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the question is very clear : i have one VM hosted in vmware workstation type 2 and i want to move this VM to my new Hypervisor host machine (hyper-V or XenServer)
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finally i move my VM to my XenServer Hypervisore by importing the .VMDK file and it is done !!
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Now i have trouble with my VM, the IP is shown as unknown
, after doing some research i found out that i have to install xenserver tools, the bad news is i have to run CLI in both centos (for my freePBX VM) and freebsd (for my pfsense VM) to mount the iso located in my virtual DVD,
well i start with centos and do the following :
mkdir /mnt/DVD
in this stage the iso was mounted, isn't it ? i think yes because the directory contain the setup files for xenserver tool like this image show :
after that i launch the installer but i get a shitty message
i guess my centos version 6.5 is not supported, please help me ,,, i'm lost
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knowing that i don't know how to deal with Linux CLI nor freeBSD CLI
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@IT-ADMIN said:
knowing that i don't know how to deal with Linux CLI nor freeBSD CLI
Out of curitosity what happens if you type
sudo ifup eth0Into your CentOS machine?
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unfortunatley i'm out of office now because i just finish my shift, because there is a huge time difference btw us and USA,
now it is 7:36 pm and tomorrow friday we are off, next saturday i will try that command i'm very sorry you want to help me but i'm out of office now
