I was doing a Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2012  migration as fast as possible and one of the steps was to convert a VMWare machine (Server 2.0.2) to a Hyper-V disk using MVMC 3.0.  There are plenty of articles out there on how to do this. In a nutshell, you run the following cmdlet in PowerShell after importing the psd1 module (import command included):

Import-Module “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter\MvmcCmdlet.psd1”

ConvertTo-MvmcVirtualHardDisk -SourceLiteralPath "R:\Virtual Machines\XPPro1\XPPro1-flat.vmdk" -DestinationLiteralPath "R:\VMs\XPPro1\XPPro1.vhdx" -VhdType FixedHardDisk -VhdFormat Vhdx

However, on my first try, I was running into the following error:

ConvertTo-MvmcVirtualHardDisk : No suitable drive was found at path (R:\Virtual Machines\XPPro1\XPPro1-flat.vmdk).

Parameter name: path

At line:1 char:1

+ ConvertTo-MvmcVirtualHardDisk -SourceLiteralPath "R:\Virtual Machines\XPPro1\XPP ...

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    + CategoryInfo          : WriteError: (Microsoft.Accel...nversionService:DriveConversionService) [ConvertTo-MvmcVi rtualHardDisk], DriveNotFoundInPathArgumentException

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : DiskConversion,Microsoft.Accelerators.Mvmc.Cmdlet.Commands.ConvertToMvmcVirtualHardDiskCommand 

At first, I thought MVMC 3.0 didn't like XP since it's already EOL. Then I had the same thought about VMWare Server 2.0.2 since it's old and hasn't been updated in a while. Then upon five minutes more thought, I remembered that the "-flat.vmdk" file is not the actual disk despite being the multi-GB meat and potatoes of the disk. So, upon changing the above command to reflect the actual disk name:

XPPro1.vmdk (which is a 1k file)

I was well on my way again. Doh! Hopefully, you don't make the same mistake, but if you find yourself here, it might be that you did and I hope this helps.

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