Hi,

I used the disk2vhd tool to convert an old XP machine to a VHDX file, and then created a virtual machine in Hyper-V on Server 2012 R2 with the vhdx file.

The system boots but I've been having tremendous difficulty getting the network working. At first it said that the NIC was unplugged, so I added a legacy NIC in the virtual machine settings and assigned it to my External network (the external network works fine on all other virtual machines).

The new legacy NIC now shows up in XP Network Connection as "Connected", but I have no internet access, and if I do an ipconfig it's not showing any IP address against that connection (with obtain IP automatically).

If I assign a valid IP address it seems to accept it, and still says "Connected" against the conneciton icon, but again when I perform ipconfig it has no information at all.

Any ideas please?

Even if Windows XP is not supported, you should first install the integration services on your VM.

1- Open the Hyper-V VM console

2- Menu --> Actions --> Insert the Integration Services disk

3- An iso image will be mounted to your VM, run the setup to install the Integration services

4- Restart the VM

5- Normally, your problem will be solved

All the Integration Services are already ticked.

Hi Arthur__Dent,

Please confirm your XP is the supported version, it require SP3 Professional or 64bit SP2 Professional, after you have the VM running, its a good idea to deinstall unused drivers and remove no longer present hardware. Prominent examples would be graphic card and NIC drivers (for example for Dell Servers you usually have Broadcom Network drivers installed, deinstalling them removes the no longer present NIC device).

More details please refer the following KB:

Hyper-V: P2V with Disk2VHD

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/9790.hyper-v-p2v-with-disk2vhd.aspx

Im glad to be of help to you!