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Hello<br />
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I was trying to move four virtual servers from one server to another, i have copied the virtual servers .vmc and .vhd files and have added them into the new Virtual Server. The computers i moved them between have different specifications but both use w2k3 as OS.<br />
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But when i try to start them nothing happens, i probably missed some important steps but haven't been able to find any good guide. But this is what i've done this far.<br />
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1. Turned off the Virtual servers and copied the vmc and vhd files for each server.<br />
2. Added them to the new computer's Virtual server 2005 administration.<br />
3. Configured the setting so they wont be using more RAM then the computer actually has, as the new server ain't as good as the old one.<br />
4. Added search path to the folders where the virtual servers files are. <br />
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Though i read that to do this the server must have the exact same path to the .vhd files to work after being added into the new server, is this correct? And if it is, can this be changed somehow? <br />
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Hello

I was trying to move four virtual servers from one server to another, i have copied the virtual servers .vmc and .vhd files and have added them into the new Virtual Server. The computers i moved them between have different specifications but both use w2k3 as OS.

But when i try to start them nothing happens, i probably missed some important steps but haven't been able to find any good guide. But this is what i've done this far.

1. Turned off the Virtual servers and copied the vmc and vhd files for each server.
2. Added them to the new computer's Virtual server 2005 administration.
3. Configured the setting so they wont be using more RAM then the computer actually has, as the new server ain't as good as the old one.
4. Added search path to the folders where the virtual servers files are. 

Though i read that to do this the server must have the exact same path to the .vhd files to work after being added into the new server, is this correct? And if it is, can this be changed somehow? 







Moving from a Virtual server 2005 to a new server

Microsoft Virtual Server was a virtualization solution that facilitated the creation of virtual machines on the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. Virtual machines are created and managed through a web-based interface that relies on Internet Information Services (IIS) or through a Windows client application tool called VMRCplus. Features included Linux guest operating system support, Virtual Disk Precompactor, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), x64 host operating system support, the ability to mount virtual hard drives on the host machine and additional operating systems support, including Windows Vista, and a volume shadow copy writer.

Microsoft Virtual Server

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).