HyperV - Gen 1 to Gen 2

[garethEds]

Good morning All,

 

I am playing about with our HyperV cluster this morning and one of the containers. I have never used Gen 2 containers and am looking then in general. I read on the web that Gen 2 cannot use IDE drives but the vhdx can be attached to a scsi controller.

 

I have created the Gen 2 container but cannot get the vhdx to attach.

 

Is is possible to do what I have read? Despite it not working for me? If so - any ideas?

 

Many thanks

 

Gareth

[slugshead]

What errors is it throwing up when it fails? Probably more in the event logs

[Norphy]

You should be able to attached the VHD(X) to the Gen 2 machine, but you probably won't be able to boot from it as Gen1 machines are BIOS and Gen 2 are UEFI. You'd need to do some work in the image itself to convert that.

[garethEds]

You should be able to attached the VHD(X) to the Gen 2 machine, but you probably won't be able to boot from it as Gen1 machines are BIOS and Gen 2 are UEFI. You'd need to do some work in the image itself to convert that.

 

That makes sense. I am getting SCSI Disk (0,0) The Bootloader did not load an operating system

 

I guess I need to change the format of the drive - I may have read something about that. Looking now....

 

Edit: Found it. Trying it.

 

Gareth

Edited January 11, 2022 by garethedmondson