Once this stage is finished you can add further virtual disks using the VM settings dialog. Note, if you have multiple virtual disks (VMDK’s) you want to bring into your new VM, you can only select 1 at this point, so choose the virtual disk which is the system (boot) disk. Choose Virtual Disk filesĬhoose the VMDK file you want to use and select either “Take this disk away…” or “Make a separate copy…”. Select “Continue without disc”, and at the next screen… Select Virtual Disks Open VMware Fusion and create a new Virtual Machine Create a new virtual machine
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My preference is to use VMWare Fusion for the Mac, but the process is applicable to Windows versions of VMWare. Create a New VMWare VM using existing VMDK’s Note that these tools will also convert the other way too, from VMDK’s to VHD’s so you’ll be able to migrate back from VMWare to Hyper-V/Virtual PC. Using your tool of choice, convert the VHD’s to VMDK’s. Now we have the exported VHD’s we’ll need to convert them to VMDK’s, there are a couple of tools available for this, both of which are free. If you want to export from a snapshot you’ll have to merge all previous snapshots up to the one you wish to export (so that the selected snapshot effectively becomes the baseline VM). If you are using Hyper-V v1 you cannot export from a snapshot, you can only export from the baseline VM. If you are using Hyper-V R2, you can choose to export the baseline VM or any of it’s snapshots.
After choosing the export location, the VM’s VHD’s (virtual hard disks) will be exported, along with the VM configuration and it’s snapshot files. In order to do this, though, the VM must be powered down. Using the Hyper-V Manager, right click on the VM in question and choose Export. vmwarevm file.īeing able to migrate between these environments is a valuable feature and in this post we’ll migrate a Microsoft Hyper-V VM over to VMWare Fusion for Mac.
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Across Mac and Window environments there are a number of virtualization platforms available to you Īll of these environments use different virtual hard disk formats, VMWare uses VMDK’s, Hyper-V uses VHD’s, VMWare Fusion uses VMDK’s packaged up into a bundle known as a. After working with SharePoint for any length of time, virtualization will soon become a way of life.