I have a OVA file which was exported from VMware ESXi, I would like to move this virtual machine into Hyper V> Does MicroSoft offer tools to convert this file to a format which Hyper V can work with

Thanks

Microsoft does not have a tool that can import OVF (OVA is simply and OVF defined system in a TAR archive).

However, there is a tool that can and import it to Hyper-V.

Citrix Project Kensho:
http://community.citrix.com/display/xs/Kensho

There is a video specific to using Kensho with Hyper-V:
http://www.citrix.com/tv/#videos/971

If you need any assistance with it:
http://forums.citrix.com/forum.jspa?forumID=780

Just be sure to read the admin guide.

Hi,

 

You can also perform a V2V through SCVMM.

 

 

Best Regards,

Vincent Hu

 

SCVMM is not OVA / OVF aware.

What you would need to do in this case is un-tar the OVA to an OVF (metafile plus VMDK) and then cop the VMDK to the SCVMM Library.

Then you can create a new VM using that VMDK And SCVMM should know to convert it.

I have done quite a bit of work with OVF / OVA over the past two years.

Some background you might find useful:
http://itproctology.blogspot.com/2009/09/importing-vmware-studio-with-citrix-ovf.html

Also on my blog:
http://itproctology.blogspot.com/search?q=ovf

thank god for these threads...

 

Brian I cant seem to download Project Kensho:

http://community.citrix.com/display/xs/Kensho

 

I am trying to convert WTX_Launch_Hypervisor_8.4_RHLNX_64B.ova file into something Hyper-V can use.

There is a com_ibm_wtx_launcher_bld141_image_rh_linux_x86_64_8_4_0_0.ovf and large RHEL55-64.vmdk in there.

Any other direction you can give?

 

Considering that this is a Linux machine it most likely will not 'just work'

I have had considerable issues attempting to move Linux machines between hypervisors.  In the case of VMware Linux machines there are two ways to install the VMware Tools.

If they are installed one way it is no big deal to move the VMs about.  But if they are installed the 'correct' way then there is a SCSI controller error on boot if they are not on ESX / Workstation and the only way to get past it is to modify the kernel and get the SCSI driver out.

I would expect this problem is VMware Studio was used to build the appliance.

You are better building your own Linux Vm on your target platform and adding the vendor software to it.

Check out new Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Solution: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34591

I am trying it now myself.

Have you tried it? How did it work?
I plan to try it myself to here.

This is an old thread, but I'm wondering if you got it working.  I have an OVA file for the Aerohive Hive Manager and would like to run it using Hyper-V on a Server 2012 box.

Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter v3.0 only converts an OVF if you have it living in vSphere with access to it through vCenter or an ESXi host.  Pretty lame if you ask me.

I can tell you that folks still download Citrix's Project Kensho for this very thing.

(I know because I host the download).

The MSFT VM Converter assumes that your OVF is a VMware flat file style OVF ('stored VM') which is a very specific non-runtime format. There are actually lots of gory details under there....

I ended up installing Oracle VirtualBox (minimal install) and used the command line tool vboxmanage.exe

Here's the command line I used from a Admin command prompt:

"c:\program files\oracle\virtualbox\vboxmanage.exe" clonehd --format vhd nodename-disk1.vmdk ztuag958929v2.vhd

I imported on virtualbox

then went to virtualbox media manager, select copy

save as VHD disk

move to Hyper-V, make new virtual machine and attached existing VHD (select file made)

worked first time, no issue at all

Guest OS: CentOS 6 ESET Local Cache Server