Converting the Maldev Academy OVA to Hyper-V

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Just a quick note for myself on converting the Maldev Academy OVA to Hyper-V

i used VBox Manage to do this, which is included with Oracle Virtualbox installation.

Use VBoxManage to clone the HD to .vhd format:

.\VBoxManage.exe clonehd --format vhd "C:\path\from\Maldev-Academy-disk1.vmdk" "C:\path\to\MaldevDisk.vhd"

I then had to convert to .vhdx format:

Convert-VHD -Path C:\path\from\MaldevDisk.vhd -DestinationPath C:\path\to\MaldevDisk.vhdx

Then in Hyper-V just go to action > import virtual machine to import the .vhdx