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Apr 10, 2018

help - Error P2V with UEFI Secure Boot to Hyper-V

We are failing to convert a few physical machine to Hyper-V (W2012 R2) due to UEFI Secure Boot on the physical machine. The physical machines are running Windows 2008 R2 Server or Windows 2012 Serv...

P2V

Robert Lawton

Copper Contributor

Apr 10, 2018

Did you try turning off the secure boot option in the virtual machine settings.

I've used Sysinternals Disk2VHD to do many P2V conversions. Since it requires the OS to be booted, it should get around the SecureBoot issue.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/disk2vhd

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Apr 11, 2018
Jonathan is a workmate, he can post more details.
Jonathan Alfaro
Copper Contributor
Apr 10, 2018
By the way, we are migrating from IBM HS22 servers
Jonathan Alfaro
Copper Contributor
Apr 10, 2018
Hi Robert.

When we try to migrate the servers physically to virtual we get the following error message:
"There are blocking issues for the physical-to-virtual conversion: There is no BCD boot device found in the source machine, noticing that conversion of an EFI boot machine is currently not supported."

That error message does not let us start the migration.
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Apr 10, 2018

We could't complete the converstion of the machine from physical to virtual, so we can't use that command. The conversion process failed.

I will try that tool.