The problem is that there was an entry in the VMDK file descriptor that Microsoft Converter could not recognize. In some cases, when converting a VMDK disk using ConvertTo-MvmcVirtualHardDisk, an error may appear:ĬonvertTo-MvmcVirtualHardDisk : The entry 0000000-0000-0000-0000-00000000 is not a supported disk database entry for the descriptor. In our case, converting a 33GB VMware VMDK to VHDX took about an hour.
Learn how to fix Hyper-V error: Virtual Machine could not be started because the Hypervisor is not running. You can create a new Hyper-V virtual machine from it or add it to an existing VM. To convert your VMDK file to VHDX format, run the command: ConvertTo-MvmcVirtualHardDisk -SourceLiteralPath "C:\SharedVMDK\shareddisk01.vmdk" -VhdType DynamicHardDisk -VhdFormat vhdx -destination C:\VHDĪfter executing the command, the shareddisk01.vhdx file will appear in the target directory. Open a PowerShell console as an administrator and import the MVMC module into your session: Import-Module 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter\MvmcCmdlet.psd1' Download and install the Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter module on your computer. You can use a special PowerShell module to convert VMware virtual disks (vmdk) to Hyper-V format (vhdx). How to Convert VMDK to VHDX Disk using PowerShell? Now you can attach the resulting VHDX disk to the Hyper-V virtual machine. Check our tutorial on how to configure autostart of VM on VMware ESXi. To do this, select Local file > specify the source VMDK file and select destination image format VHD/VHDX (Microsoft Virtual Hard Drive). You can also convert a local VMDK file (for example, a file of a VMware Workstation virtual machine) to VHDX format. To do this, select the Remote VMware ESXi Server option.
StartWind Converter allows you to remotely connect to VMware ESXi and perform an online conversion of a virtual machine and immediately import it to a Hyper-V server. Using the free StarWind V2V Converter tool, you can convert between the following virtual hard drive formats:ĭownload the StartWind Converter utility (free registration required) and install the tool on your computer by running the startwind.exe file. Convert VMDK to VHDX with StartWind ConverterĪ third-party StartWind Converter utility allows you to convert VMs from VMware ESXi to Hyper-V. In this article, we’ll look at several ways to convert VMDK to VHDX.
However, it is much faster to simply convert the VMware virtual machine VMDK file to the VHDX format. You can use different V2V migration tools for this. If you are running virtual machines on both VMware ESXi/Workstation and Microsoft Hyper-V, in some cases you may need to convert a VMware virtual machine to Hyper-V format.
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