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Anonymous
Apr 10, 2018help - 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...
Robert Lawton
Apr 10, 2018Copper Contributor
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
Jonathan Alfaro
Apr 10, 2018Copper Contributor
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.