Eek! What a scary thought. I was asked tonight if this was possible. Not with VMM and not with VMware’s tools AFAIK. I had no idea. I did some searching. Apparently PlateSpin can do it with PowerConvert. There’s a messy solution for cloning Linux machines. This process will probably get easier when the Linux distros are available with the Hyper-V integration components installed. But most P2V operations will likely be on older distros so things won’t be easy.
I’m not touching this one with a barge pole 🙂
Over at Technoloy for Mortals, there is a walk through on migrating a BSD box to a vm on Hyper-V. You’ll be sleeping with the lights on, after reading this!! I haven’t even attempted installed BSD on Hyper-V thus far. It seems troublesome enough with plain old Linux….Here is the link. I hope it doesn’t foul up your comments…….
http://www.formortals.com/how-to-perform-a-p2v-conversion-for-freebsd-to-run-on-hyper-v/
~tb
Great link Tim. I wonder if that would work by transfering the physical disk via a USB 2.0 caddy?