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- SCSI Disk (0,0)
The boot loader did not load an operating system. - Network Adapter (00155D018B00)
A boot image was not found
- SCSI Disk (0,0)
- 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?