Monday, October 18, 2010

How to run a Dynamics AX Hyper-V on Virtual PC

"Duplicate" a Hyper-V Virtual Macchine :

Http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2008/08/26/hyper-v-export-import-part-1.aspx

Convert VHD from Hyper-V to Virtual PC :

Many site said it's impossible to convert an Hyper-V VHD based image to Virtual PC 2007 format, I found a way to do it, basically you need to remove integration services before copy vhd, then replace hal.dll.

STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS
1) Before copy VHD file, REMOVE Hyper-V Integration Services
2) Stop the Virtual Machine and copy the VHD file (let's call VirtualMachine1.vhd)
3) Start another virtual machine inside Virtual PC with same OS and use as a Secondary Disk the previous copied file (VirtualMachine1.vhd)
4) Using Windows Explorer from the previous started virtual machine open the Secondary Disk (let's suppose it's recognized as E:)
5) Replace hal.dll from the secondary disk (E:\WINDOWS\system32\HAL.DLL) using the file present into C: Partition.
6) Don't install ACPI drivers

More details about HAL.DLL file on: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309283

http://vittoriop77.blogspot.com/2009/02/convert-vhd-from-hyper-v-to-virtual-pc.html

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