Sep 18 2019 03:45 PM
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?
Sep 19 2019 04:53 AM
SolutionHi @Daniel Corkill ,
This could be possible (in theory)!
These would be the steps:
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 :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes:
Sep 19 2019 04:53 AM
SolutionHi @Daniel Corkill ,
This could be possible (in theory)!
These would be the steps:
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 :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes: