When moving virtual machines between Hyper-V servers it is often useful to be able to export directly into the folder where the virtual machine will reside on the new host. This saves a lot of time and disk space. Here is what you need to do:
- Make sure that both your source and destination Hyper-V servers are in the same forest.
- Share the folder where the virtual machine will be exported to.
(This is on the destination server). - Grant NTFS permissions to BOTH the user running the Hyper-V Manager on the source machine and the computer account of the source machine, for the export folder.
- Grant Sharing permissions to BOTH the user running the Hyper-V Manager on the source machine and the computer account of the source machine, for the export folder.
- Export the virtual machine using the UNC path of the share you created in step 2 as the destination.
These requirements are also covered in the Hyper-V release notes (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754747.aspx).