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Daniel Corkill
Copper Contributor
Sep 18, 2019
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p2v Win7 desktop to Windows Virtual Desktop

Just wanted to run this idea past the community to see if it's possible. I'm with a customer that has old hardware running Win7 and various legacy apps that either can't run on Win10 or they've lost the media for. What I'm hoping is possible is that I can p2v this box into Windows Virtual Desktop and configure a new piece of hardware running Win10 to auto start WVD with the Win7 desktop. Is that achievable?

 

On a side note, my understanding is that if a Win7 machine is put into WVD that it will receive 3 extra years of extended support at no cost, is this accurate?

  • michawets's avatar
    michawets
    Sep 19, 2019

    Hi Daniel Corkill ,

     

    This could be possible (in theory)!

     

    These would be the steps:

     

    1. Create a VHD from your Win7 VM
      (perhaps with Disk2vhd https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/disk2vhd)
    2. Run through these steps:
      Prepare a Windows VHD or VHDX to upload to Azure
      (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/prepare-for-upload-vhd-image)
    3. Use that image to deploy a new VM in Azure behind the WVD service

     

    If you have the Win7 running in Hyper-V, you can also use Azure Migrate to migrate the VM to Azure, without making the Win7 into an Azure Image first:
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/migrate/tutorial-migrate-hyper-v

     

    This is all theory of-course. 

    You will have to do some testing 😊

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  • michawets's avatar
    michawets
    Iron Contributor
    Sep 19, 2019

    Hi Daniel Corkill ,

     

    This could be possible (in theory)!

     

    These would be the steps:

     

    1. Create a VHD from your Win7 VM
      (perhaps with Disk2vhd https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/disk2vhd)
    2. Run through these steps:
      Prepare a Windows VHD or VHDX to upload to Azure
      (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/prepare-for-upload-vhd-image)
    3. Use that image to deploy a new VM in Azure behind the WVD service

     

    If you have the Win7 running in Hyper-V, you can also use Azure Migrate to migrate the VM to Azure, without making the Win7 into an Azure Image first:
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/migrate/tutorial-migrate-hyper-v

     

    This is all theory of-course. 

    You will have to do some testing 😊

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