Boot sequence to SCSI Controller in Hyper V

Question

_{Wednesday, May 28, 2008 1:18 PM}

Helo,

I´m attempt change order boot of my virtual machine in SCVMM 2008 Beta Console, but in hardware configuration not show SCSI Controller to boot operation system. This is possible by console? or exist other way to do?

Thanks

Daniel Marreiro

All replies (3)

_{Wednesday, May 28, 2008 5:14 PM ✅Answered}

Hyper-V does not support SCSI boot devices.

this is becuase the SCSI controller in Hyper-V is 100% synthetic - therefore it loads after the OS.

The IDE interface is the only supported disk based boot device (your VM boot disk must be on one of hte IDE controllers) as it begins emulated then switches to synthetic when Integration Services load.

This is totally opposite of ESX who only supports SCSI based disks (so you can only boot from a SCSI disk).

This is where the SCVMM 2008 V2V converter comes into place to convert from VMware to Hyper-V...

_{Monday, October 6, 2008 4:19 PM}

Hi,

Maybe I am wrong - I have several test VMs running on a free VM Server.  And I am thinking to move them to Hyper-V to get some experience.  But I found SCVMM 2008 V2V Converter cannot convert these machines as they are not on ESX server.

Could you please confirm this is true or let me know, if not, how I can make this happen?

Thanks,

Eric

_{Monday, October 6, 2008 4:23 PM}

You can always think of them as Physical to virtual conversions.  then use the P2V wizard in SCVMM.

The other thing that you can do is to copy the VMware VM configuration file plus the VHD to your SCVMM server Library.

Once (if) SCVMM recognizes the two bits properly as a VM (not as a disk and another item) then you can do the V2V.

This is a bug in the beta, so your mileage will vary.