Launch Hyper-V in Windows 10, click New > Virtual Machine then click Next. The larger the VHD, the longer it will take. In my case, this will be used locally, so, I will stick with the default. Because this is a Windows XP VM, I will stick with a fixed VHD option called VHD Pre-allocated image.īrowse to where on your hard disk you would like to store the converted image. VHDX is an improvement over the older virtual hard disk format, supporting up to 64 TBs of storage. Launch the StarWind V2V Image Converter software then click Next.Ĭhoose Local file as your source then click Next.Ĭhoose the format you would like to convert the image to. After receiving your free download, proceed to download and set up StarWind Converter. First, you need to sign up for the free download, which will be sent to you in an email link.

I said to myself, “Forget this! There has got to be an easier way than going back to the age of Computer Chronicles.”Īfter some web searching, I came across a free utility from StarWind called V2V Image Converter designed just for converting different types of virtual hard disk formats. I experienced nothing but frustration getting it to work see the proof below. Initially, I attempted to convert the VM using Microsoft’s free utility called Virtual Machine Converter and the built-in PowerShell cmdlet. Hyper-V does not natively support the Open Virtual Format. Our next step is to import the VM into Microsoft’s Hyper-V software. Select the virtual machine again, then click Next.Ĭhoose the location where you would like to store the virtual machine file, select the OFV 2.0 format then click Next.Ĭlick Export then wait while the appliance is exported this can take some time depending on the size of the virtual machine.īefore you can begin the conversion, we will need to use an uncompressing utility such as 7-zip to extract the contents of the OVF file we just exported.

Click the File menu then click Export Appliance…

Make sure the operating system you are exporting is supported by Hyper-V. To begin, launch the VirtualBox Manager then select the virtual machine from the list pane you would like to export. Migrate an Oracle VirtualBox Virtual Machine to Windows 10 Hyper-V # In this article, we’ll show you how to migrate an existing Oracle VirtualBox virtual machine to Windows 10’s Hyper-V.

Transfer file to virtualbox