#VMWARE WORKSTATION VS HYPER V INSTALL#
Select to install the operating system later, click Next. Select the Hardware Compatibility, I used the default of version 11, and click Next. In VMware Workstation, run the New Virtual Machine Wizard, select Custom and click Next. Now we have a new vmdk, let’s setup a new Virtual Machine in VMware Workstation and see if it works. My original disk was thin provisioned, so only about 10GB and was located on an SSD, so the conversion time was really quick.
Specify the destination for the new disk, click Next.Ĭlick Finish once complete. As I was using a Gen 2 VM my disk was actully SCSI, but i tested the default settings and they appear to work, so select IDE and click Next. Specify the destination format, click Next. In my case I’m converting a thin provisioned VHDX. Specify the source disk image, click Next. You have to register to download the product, but once you have and installed it below are the steps I took to convert a UEFI Boot, R2, Hyper-V VM using VHDX to vmdk for VMware Workstation.
My first thought was VMware converter, but that doesn’t support VHDX, so looking around on the Internet I cam across a nifty bit of FREE software from StarWind Software- StarWind V2V Converter. The only problem is I don’t want to rebuild my current test environments so I need some way of converting the VHDX that Hyper-V uses to vmdk that VMware Workstation uses. In the near future though I’m going to be looking at some vSphere testing, and from memory recall that you can nest it within VMware Workstation, so I thought I would give the latest version a go.
Until Windows 8 I’ve used VMware Workstation for testing, but with the advent of Windows 8 and the built in Hyper-V I decided to give it a try and have been using it quite happily ever since.
#VMWARE WORKSTATION VS HYPER V HOW TO#
In this post we’ll look at how to convert a Hyper-V virtual machine using the VHDX format virtual disk to a VMware Workstation virtual machine using the vmdk format virtual disk.
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