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Physical to VHDX migration is a PITA. I've done it in an emergency, but it's not ideal. You can convert a raw drive image to VHD using the now-obsolete VHDTool,
by teilo 9y ago
Physical to VHDX migration is a PITA. I've done it in an emergency, but it's not ideal. You can convert a raw drive image to VHD using the now-obsolete VHDTool, and from there convert to VHDX. But the resulting volume is not dynamic. It appears to have no way to know which sectors are in use when the conversion is done this way, so it assumes all of them are, and the image cannot be shrunk. The better option is to copy all contents to a new VHDX image using a utility instance. A lot more work, of course.
- Aloha 9y agoToo much abstraction there - in this case, I wouldn't convert, I'd copy, create a new VHDX mount it somewhere in the VM, copy the data over, then remount it in the VM at the mountpoint of the now unmounted RAID Array. We ended up here, because as I mentioned, I just moved the RAID into the new box, and mounted at the place the VM needed to have it, that made the setup process much faster.