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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 ...
Hi Daniel Corkill ,
This could be possible (in theory)!
These would be the steps:
- Create a VHD from your Win7 VM
(perhaps with Disk2vhd https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/disk2vhd) - 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) - 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-vThis is all theory of-course.
You will have to do some testing 😊
- Create a VHD from your Win7 VM
Hi Daniel Corkill ,
This could be possible (in theory)!
These would be the steps:
- Create a VHD from your Win7 VM
(perhaps with Disk2vhd https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/disk2vhd) - 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) - 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 😊