Thursday, April 4, 2013

Windows Server 2012's Hyper-V Exported VMs Can't Be Used with Windows Server 2008 RTM/R2's Import Feature

Windows Server 2012's Hyper-V Export feature is not compatible with Windows Server 2008 RTM/R2's  Hyper-V 2008

Hyper-V 2012 Export feature does not create .exp. This ".exp file" is need by Windows Server 2008 RTM or Windows Server 2008 R2's Hyper-V as format that recognized by the Import feature.

Here is the files from the old Hyper-V (Windows Server 2008 RTM / Windows Server 2008 R2). Just as an example..




compared to the new Windows Server 2012's Hyper-V..



as the result, I can't import this new VMs when in Hyper-V 2008 host.

Later, I will do research on how to import Hyper-V 2012 exported VMs on Hyper-V 2008 host. For now, I don't feel that I have time for this.

Reference:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserver8gen/thread/4069d05d-131c-487c-9b84-4c9429cae955
http://www.yusufozturk.info/virtual-machine-manager/how-to-migrate-hyper-v-v3-vm-back-to-hyper-v-v2-environment.html
http://kristiannese.blogspot.com/2012/06/export-and-import-of-vms-in-hyper-v.html

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