Windows 10: Exporting and Importing a Hyper-V VM from my old PC to my new PC

Hi guys, and I know, I know, it's Christmas Eve. But I have been struggling with this isuse for weeks. I have recently replaced my computer but I have a VM on it I just want to move over to the new computer. Both PCs are running Win 11 Pro. I have tried everything I've read on the net and the import just doesn't work. It either won't open at all, error messages or the import is missing all the desktop folders, etc. Very frustrating. It sounds so simply but there must be undocumented secret handshakes or something. Oh, and the VM is a Win 10 Pro box. Any help would be greatly appreciat

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Exporting VM with hyper-v

Exporting a Hyper-V vm keeps everything, GUID always remains the same, original. It's the importing that determines if old GUID and for instance activation will be kept or not.

If imported registering vm in-place or restoring vm, GUID is kept (green highlight in screenshot below). If importing copying vm a new GUID will be created (red highlight). See tutorial Method One Step 6 for explanation for these three import methods: Hyper-V Virtual Machine - Import in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums





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Exporting VM with hyper-v

Damn! I forgot that you told me about that.
I should have remembered, but such things, I remember only as I do them.
Would rep you, but I got to spread the love first*Wink

 

Move Hyper-V VM Without Reactivating?

According to this (How do I avoid needing to activate Windows when I move a VM? [Hyper-V]) link it is possible to move a Hyper V VM to a new host without having to reactivate the guest OS by exporting
it and importing it. Are there any additional steps I should know about or is it as simple as find the export and then import (on the new host) options/buttons?