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Mark Allison
Asked: 2014-12-22 13:59:32 +0800 CST

Can't convert virtual machine from ESXi to Hyper-V 2012 R2

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I have a VMWare ESXi 5.5 Server and a Hyper-V 2012 R2 Core server (called Lithium) in a WORKGROUP. My Windows 8.1 machine is in the same WORKGROUP. I am trying to convert a VM from the ESXi host to the Hyper-V host using Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC).

I want the destination to be a share on the Hyper-V host called \Lithium\Machines. I have tested that my account has write permissoins to this share from my workstation but I get this error in MVMC

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I created the share with this command on the Hyper-V host:

PS C:\Users\mark> new-smbshare -Name Machines -Path "C:\Users\Public\Documents\H
yper-V\Virtual Hard Disks" -FullAccess LITHIUM\Mark, LITHIUM\Administrator

and it was created fine:

PS C:\Users\mark> get-smbshare -name machines | ft -auto

Name     ScopeName Path                                                 Descrip
                                                                        tion
----     --------- ----                                                 -------
Machines *         C:\Users\Public\Documents\Hyper-V\Virtual Hard Disks

Any ideas what's wrong?

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3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Looks like you set the share permissions, but not the NTFS permissions. You need to do both.

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  2. You can use vmware converter to do this, or you can used Disk2Vhd, Both tools will work. Using vmware converter you can directly send the VM on a network share partition. If you planning to use Disk2vhd, you must map a network drive or use an external disk to transfer the VM.

    Hope that helps Rgs Sundeep seetloo

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  3. MVMC Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter seems to need vSphere and doesn't work with only ESXi servers

    http://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2977338 - (applies to MVMC but I think still the case for MVMC 3.0 and 3.1)

    https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn873998.aspx claims

    Supports conversion of virtual machines from VMware vSphere 5.5, VMware vSphere 5.1, and VMware vSphere 4.1 hosts to Hyper-V

    check the mvmc_engine.log and mvmc.log under %TEMP%

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