Exporting a Virtual Machine to another server issue !!

• mmcbride 2735

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  May 11, 2016 at 3:43 am

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  Hi Guys,

  Quick question.

  I have exported the Virtual machine from my old server to my new location. When I view the folder the files are visible but when I try to import them to my new location hyper V cant find the new VM in question.

  The VM I am importing is windows server 2008 r2 and the location is windows server 2012 r2.

  I am getting the following error

  Hyper V did not find virtual machines to import from location F:\Test\gtlvm03

  Thanks in advance

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  May 11, 2016 at 7:50 am

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  are you using sysprep to do this?

• mmcbride 2735

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  May 11, 2016 at 9:24 am

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  Hyper-V has a Feature buildin to Export the VM with its configuration. So the right steps would be:

  1. Shutdown the VM on the current physical Server

  2. Export the VM to an external drive

  3. Copy to the new physical Server

  4. Import the VM in Hyper-V on the new Server

  5. Boot the VM on the new Server

  I followed these steps

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  May 12, 2016 at 12:44 am

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  Sorry I wont be able to help with this. I have only done this via sysprep:(