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When you start a Generation 2 virtual machine on Hyper-V you may see the following error message Hyper-V server reports Boot Failed. EFI SCSI Device. No Operating System was loaded. This can occur if you are running a Generation 2 virtual machine when the boot disk is configured for MBR not EFI (GPT). More bad news, it's very difficult to convert an MBR disk to GPT with current tools. Windows Disk Management MMC requires that you delete all partitions. There are free tools such as gptgen.exe however using them made the test system I was using unbootable, so it's not without risk. The simplest solution is to create a generation 1 virtual machine and boot from that. If you have used any tools that safely convert GPT disks to MBR then please feel free to comment below. For more information on our Hyper-V documentation tool please see our site .

With XIA Configuration Server you can easily track changes to your items with the new item comparison user interface, simply Select the items to compare Select the version of the items to compare Compare the items to the web interface, PDF or XML Open the comparison results in Microsoft Excel to allow simple and fast analysis of the changes. For more information see the item comparison page of our web site.

Today I've been working with Hyper-V on a desktop Windows 8.1 environment as an alternative to VMware Workstation. There seem to be a myriad of options when it comes to converting the virtual hard disks from VMDK to the new(ish) VHDX format. After trying various ones the information seems to be confusing and contradictory some don't support VHDX, some support VHDX such as Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter 3.0 graphical interface, however require you to be running VMware ESXi and vSphere, whereas I'm using VMware workstation. The best solution I've found is to use the PowerShell commands for Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter 3.0, Download Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter 3.0 http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=42497 Open PowerShell as an administrator Type C: cd "\Program Files\Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter" Import-Module .\MvmcCmdlet.psd1 To see the available commands type get-command -module mvmc* The command