Portability for Hyper-V

I am having a hard time figuring this out.

Currently, I run a VS2005 system, but we are considering upgrading it to
Hyper-V. In the event of a demonstration, and the network / Internet
connection is down, I need my salesman to have a backup copy of the image on
an external drive. Is it difficult (possible?) to export a Hyper-V image so
that it could run on a VPC2007? Would it change anything if it was running
on a Windows 7 machine?

Would SCVMM make this change easier? Are there any other products which can
help with this scenario?

Thank you,

CJM

>Is it difficult (possible?) to export a Hyper-V image so
>that it could run on a VPC2007?

It's pretty difficult, and the changes would require reactivation as
well. (if it's XP or above).

The emulated hardware differences, the drivers from the
addition/integration components, and the HAL differences all have to
be accounted for.

--
Bob Comer


On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:51:01 -0700, cjmara
<cjmara@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I am having a hard time figuring this out.
>
>Currently, I run a VS2005 system, but we are considering upgrading it to
>Hyper-V. In the event of a demonstration, and the network / Internet
>connection is down, I need my salesman to have a backup copy of the image on
>an external drive. Is it difficult (possible?) to export a Hyper-V image so
>that it could run on a VPC2007? Would it change anything if it was running
>on a Windows 7 machine?
>
>Would SCVMM make this change easier? Are there any other products which can
>help with this scenario?
>
>Thank you,
>
>CJM