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NealWalters
Asked: 2023-01-28 06:52:50 +0800 CST

Convert VBox or .ova to Hyper-V in 2023

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I've seen many blogs talk about using a Microsoft Converter utility, but the link is gone, and apparently was retired in 2016-2017 time period. I was able to export my Oracle VBOX (Virtual Box) using "Export Appliance" to a .ova (2.0) file. I also tried a converter from StarWind, but it didn't seem to be able to take an .ova as input.

I haven't used my VBOX image (of a Windows 2019 server) for about two years, and not able to get it working on my current laptop. I'm running Hyper-V on Windows 10.

(This is an article I was trying to follow, but it seems to be out of date: https://www.groovypost.com/howto/migrate-virtual-box-vms-windows-10-hyper-v/).

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  1. Best Answer

    I missed a step. The .ova is really just a zip file. I renamed it to .zip, and extracted the files inside, and then it imports into StarWind Converter - but now I have to deal with the RPC unavailable error that I'm getting.

    Here's what got unzipped - use the large .vmdk as input into StarWind.

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    If Microsoft has a solution to converting VBOX to Hyper-V, I would like to know what that is, vs uses a third party tool.

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