![]() ![]() The first problem is actually converting the disk file itself, as they are in very different formats. (I was unable to get the Gen 2 Hyper-V VM that supports UEFI to work given the differences in hardware drivers.) The destination image was a Gen 1 Hyper-V VM with a virtual BIOS, which necessitates a MBR partition table. The core issue was that the source image in Parallels was a virtual UEFI system with a GPT partition table. And the VM is running Windows Server 2012 R2. And the source system was a personal Retina MacBook Pro running Parallels 9. ![]() The problem: my colleague’s system is a Surface 2 Pro running Hyper-V on Windows 8.1. I was asked by a colleague to get a copy of a demo virtual machine for some upcoming analyst activities. But, of course not – so time for another misadventure in computing post. Especially when there are multiple blogs out there on how to do it. ![]() You would think converting a virtual machine from one format to another would be simple. ![]()
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