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Thirdly, the Hyper-V Import feature is only able to import Hyper-V based virtual machines. The configuration format used by Virtual Server 2005 and Virtual PC is incompatible with that used by Hyper-V.

Now that we have covered what Hyper-V cannot do, it is time to look at what it can do. Hyper-V can migrate any Hyper-V virtual machine from any Hyper-V server to any other Hyper-V server. The migrated virtual machine will include all the configuration information pertaining to the virtual machine, together with any virtual hard drives assigned to it. In addition, the export feature allows only the virtual machine's configuration to be exported, thereby excluding any virtual disk drives from the export package. This feature can be useful for situations where only the virtual machine's configuration needs to be duplicated on a different Hyper-V server.