P2V and Hyper-V (Physical to Virtual) Lousy performance ?


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Creating a VM from a physical image and then running under HYPER-V seemed to offer really lousy performance. Hyper-V usually pretty good IMHO.

I created the VM by making a disk image via Macrium of the physical system, then making a VM in Hyper-V with an empty "virtual disk" by booting a stand alone Macrium iso image in the VM and restoring the copied image. Reduced the memory size to 16GB (Host machine has 32GB but 16GB should be perfectly adequate for a Windows VM), and left as 4 Virtual CPU's.

OK the physical image will have a load more drivers in it (which won't be used in the VM) but I expected the performance to be a lot better -- Host was W11 Enterprise - 25H2 Canary latest build, VM was W11 Pro insider preview 25H2. Virtual disk was a single vhdx disk - plenty of space.

This method has worked OK in the past -- nothing wrong with the NATIVE performance of either of these systems - Any ideas if its W11 Canary before I try the same thing on W11 DEV or Beta.

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jimbo45 said:
Hi folks
Creating a VM from a physical image and then running under HYPER-V seemed to offer really lousy performance. Hyper-V usually pretty good IMHO.

I created the VM by making a disk image via Macrium of the physical system, then making a VM in Hyper-V with an empty "virtual disk" by booting a stand alone Macrium iso image in the VM and restoring the copied image. Reduced the memory size to 16GB (Host machine has 32GB but 16GB should be perfectly adequate for a Windows VM), and left as 4 Virtual CPU's.

OK the physical image will have a load more drivers in it (which won't be used in the VM) but I expected the performance to be a lot better -- Host was W11 Enterprise - 25H2 Canary latest build, VM was W11 Pro insider preview 25H2. Virtual disk was a single vhdx disk - plenty of space.

This method has worked OK in the past -- nothing wrong with the NATIVE performance of either of these systems - Any ideas if its W11 Canary before I try the same thing on W11 DEV or Beta.

Cheers
jimbo
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Sometimes you need to use the Reflect iso "fix windows boot problems".

I have a related issue where cloned vm would no boot unless secure boot was switched off.

Have you tried viboot?
 

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cereberus said:
Sometimes you need to use the Reflect iso "fix windows boot problems".

I have a related issue where cloned vm would no boot unless secure boot was switched off.

Have you tried viboot?
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Hi there
I'll have a go with that -- I've also just got when the VM is re-booting a load of "Updates are underway" so I'll see what happens. Usually creating a VM from a physical image isn't a problem - unless you have really eseoteric hardware or try to run some applications that rely on accessing native hardware rather than the "paravirtualised" hardware.

Going the OTHER way i.e creating a Physical machine from the Virtual image (V2P) is a bigger problem although these days so long as the system boots with Ms basic video driver, a NIC and you've got access to driver files and Windows updates Windows is pretty good.

I'm not using bit locker or any device encryption stuff.

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Hi there
@cereberus

Problem found - somehow the VM wanted the physical graphics card but couldn't find it so every command was taking an age !! -- in the VM analysis -- no GPU !! Anyway sorted out and its working fine -- Went back to the physical machine, removed i.e unistalled the UHD Intel video driver - so just had basic Ms video adapter - re-created the VM - and then did Windows update where it got the video driver with the correct settings from HYPER-V and its working properly now.

Screenshot 2025-09-29 132802.webp

Cheers
jimbo
 
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