Step 1: Shut down the VM
Step 2: Convert virtual hard disk from VMDK to VHD
If your VMDK virtual hard disk consists of multiple files, I recommend that you execute the following command to generate a single VMDK image:
Then
use below method to convert in single disk.
Step
3: Consolidating
Multiple VMware VMDK Disk Files into One
In command prompt, navigate to where you have VMWare installed. For me
it wasC:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation
In that folder you can use the vmware-vdiskmanager.exe program to perform this operation
vmware-vdiskmanager -r MyVirtualMachineDisk.vmdk -t 0 SingleDiskFile.vmdk
Replace MyVirtualMachineDisk.vmdk with the full path and file name of the first file of your split VMware disk set.
The “-t 0” means to turn it into a “single growable virtual disk“. If you would rather pre-allocate all the storage for the disk, use “-t 2” instead, which means “preallocated virtual disk.”
You can view more command line options by running the vmware-vdiskmanager.exe with no parameters.
DownLoad WinImage Utility
http://www.winimage.com/download.htm
- Download, install and start WinImage
- In the Disk menu, select Convert Virtual
Hard Disk Image…
- In the Open file dialog, select VMWare
VMDK (*.vmdk) as the file type and browse to your current VM location,
select the file and press Open
- In the Convert Virtual Hard Disk Image
dialog, pick Create Fixed Size Virtual Hard Disk Size to make your
new VHD fixed-size or pick Create Dynamically Expanding Virtual Hard
Disk to make it dynamic. I prefer the dynamically expanding option.
- In the Save As file dialog, browse to the
location you’d like to save the VHD image and type in the File name
and make sure the Save as type is set to Virtual Hard Disks
(*.vhd), then press Save.
Step
4: Configure Hyper-V networking
If this is the first virtual machine
on this Hyper-V host and you haven’t configured networking yet, follow the
steps below to create a new virtual network:
- Start the Hyper-V Manager
- In the Action menu, select Virtual Switch
Manager…
- Select External and press Create Virtual
Switch
- Type in the Name, make sure that External
network option is selected and pick the network card that provides
Internet access in the dropdown, then press OK
- Press Yes on the Apply Networking Changes
dialog
Step
5: Create a new virtual machine in the Hyper-V Manager
You are now ready to create a new
Hyper-V virtual machine using the VHD image created earlier in Step 1.
- Open the Hyper-V Manager
- In the Action menu, select New > Virtual
Machine… to launch the New Virtual Machine Wizard
- On the Before You Begin screen press Next
- On the Specify Name and Location screen
type in the virtual machine Name and select the Location,
then press Next
- On the Assign Memory screen enter the
amount of Startup memory, then press Next
- On the Configure Networking screen select
the External virtual network created earlier in Step 3, then press Next
- On the Connect Virtual Hard Disk screen select
the Use an existing virtual hard disk option and browse to the
location of the VHD created in Step 1
- On the Summary screen press Finish
- Select the newly created virtual machine in the Virtual
Machines section, then bring up the Action > Settings…
dialog for the VM
- Select the Processor node and increase the Number
of virtual processors to the desired value, then press OK
- Make sure the VM is still selected in the Virtual
Machines section, then use the Action > Start menu
option to start the virtual machine
- In the Action menu, select Connect… to
bring up the Virtual Machine Connection window
- Login
to the VM
- Make sure that remote connections are allowed by going to Control Panel > Remote settings and making sure that one of the Allow connections options is selected
Enjoy :)
Saeed
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