alt Hacker NewsRather than converting the cold vm disk, couldn't you boot up the vm, dump the disks to stream, and send the streams into another format?
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watusername • yesterday at 11:29 PM
Yes, this is Microsoft's "agent-based migration" option mentioned in the article.
Neywiny • yesterday at 11:21 PM
Probably better to get the vm into a ramfs or any other way to not be currently on it. Otherwise it'll likely be pretty corrupted
Try doing that to 3,000 production VMs.