Tuesday, 7 October 2014

Windows 2000 on Hyper-V 2012 R2

So you have a Windows 2000 machine that you really need to keep working even though you know support ended in 2005. It does happen, more often than you think.

You decide to migrate it into a virtual machine and your chosen hyper visor is Microsoft's Hyper-V 2012 R2. This is an excellent platform, not quite as adaptable as VMware, but I really like it.

However your Windows 2000 VM just wont start or install, and its unsupported. Where do you go from here?