VM image converter (VMDK, VHD, VHDX, IMG, RAW, QCOW and QCOW2), P2V migrator
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Dolphin65
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Sun Aug 01, 2021 8:48 am
Hi there,
I am planning to migrate a physical WIndows 2012 R2 server as a VM hosted on a Hyper-V core server.
Steps:
- Create a VHDx from existing Windows 2012 R2 machine
- Install Hyper-V 2019 core
- Create a new VM from the image created in step 1
What I want to ensure is that the VHDx image is bootable. Is there any special setting I need to use when creating the image using Starwind?
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Dolphin65
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- Joined: Sun Aug 01, 2021 8:42 am
Mon Aug 02, 2021 9:00 am
I have followed the instructions as suggested, selecting both disk (main volume and recovery volume) and converted to local file VHD. Conversion worked, then I have manually copied the VHD file to Hyper-V server and created a new VM using an existing VHD, but when attempting to boot, an error is thrown:
"Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause.The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible."
What can I try?
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Dolphin65
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- Joined: Sun Aug 01, 2021 8:42 am
Mon Aug 02, 2021 5:42 pm
I have selected repair mode and VHD shouldn't be an issue for now, I guess the GUIDs or boot sector is scrambled as for the conversion. The image can be manually mounted and shows correctly: