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Lee W, MVP

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Thomas Anthony

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The new host will not see the VHD files. I have tried converting them but I get an error that says the VM is in use by another machine? It is being stored on the new Host and is not in an "open" state as far as I can tell. Everything I read says my two hosts aren't compatible. <br>Are you saying I don't have to convert my original VHD to a VHDX?
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The new host will not see the VHD files. I have tried converting them but I get an error that says the VM is in use by another machine? It is being stored on the new Host and is not in an "open" state as far as I can tell. Everything I read says my two hosts aren't compatible.
Are you saying I don't have to convert my original VHD to a VHDX?

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I have tried to do a fresh export from the 2008R2 host. When I browse to the share with the new host (2019), it can't find the files. I am sure it is because it is looking for VHDX files. If I try to do an edit from the new machine and browse to the share, I get an error that says "Unable to edit virtual disk. The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process". Probably the export process.<br>Any ideas?
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I have tried to do a fresh export from the 2008R2 host. When I browse to the share with the new host (2019), it can't find the files. I am sure it is because it is looking for VHDX files. If I try to do an edit from the new machine and browse to the share, I get an error that says "Unable to edit virtual disk. The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process". Probably the export process.
Any ideas?

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We have a VM that is currently running some legacy software that we can't reinstall. It is on a 2008R2 host but the VM is 2012 Server. We are upgrading our host to a 2019 Hyper-V Host. I understand the two are not compatible if I try to move one to the other directly. Is there another way to move or import the VM from our old 2008R2 Host to eventually run on our new Host?
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We have a VM that is currently running some legacy software that we can't reinstall. It is on a 2008R2 host but the VM is 2012 Server. We are upgrading our host to a 2019 Hyper-V Host. I understand the two are not compatible if I try to move one to the other directly. Is there another way to move or import the VM from our old 2008R2 Host to eventually run on our new Host?

Moving an older VM from a 2008 host to a new 2019 Hyper-V host

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.

Virtualization

Windows Server 2019

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

Hyper-V is a native hypervisor; it can create virtual machines on x86-64 systems and supersedes Windows Virtual PC as the hardware virtualization component of the client editions of Windows NT. A server computer running Hyper-V can be configured to expose individual virtual machines to one or more networks. Hyper-V Server supports remote access via Remote Desktop Connection. Administration and configuration of the host OS and the guest virtual machines is generally done over the network.