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Converting Workstation 9 VM to Hyper-V

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I'm close to giving up on this but thought I'd ask about it here to see if anyone could help.  I have a Windows XP guest VM on a VMWare Workstation 9 installation on a Windows 7 Pro host.  I'm upgrading my Windows 7 Pro host machine to Windows 10 Pro.  Workstation 9 won't run on Windows 10 so I'm seeing if I can convert my Windows XP guest VM to a Hyper-V VM. 

 

I was able to convert the guest virtural drive to a .vhd.  I've been able to mount the .vhd on a Windows 10 Pro machine so I know that the .vhd drive was correctly created.  Here's where I've run into a wall:

 

On my Windows 10 Pro machine I'v created a new virtual machine in Hyper-V Manager using the "Use an existing virtual hard disk" option specifying the .vhd file I created. I've done this twice now first specifying Generation 2 VM and then specifying Generation 1.

  • When I try to start the generation 2 VM I see ">>Start PXE over IPv4."  If I wait, I eventually get a white screen display stating:
    Virutal Machine Boot Summary
    1. SCSI Disk (0,0)
      The boot loader did not load an operating system.
    2. Network Adapter (00155D018B00)
      A boot image was not found
    3. When I try to start the generation 1 VM I get nothing but a black screen and flashing cursor. 

     

    Both are set to boot from the hard drive (the Gen 1 seems to think it has a SCSI drive while the Gen 2 is IDE)

     

    Any suggestions?


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