With Converter Standalone, you can convert remote powered on machines, powered off VMware virtual machines and Hyper-V Server virtual machines.

Table 1. Supported Sources
Source Type Sources
Powered on machines
  • Remote Windows physical machines
  • Remote Linux physical machines
  • Local Windows physical machines
  • Powered on VMware virtual machines
  • Powered on Hyper-V Server virtual machines
  • Powered on Amazon EC2 Windows and Linux machines
  • Powered on virtual machines running under Red Hat KVM and Nutanix AHV
    Note: Converter Standalone does not support paravirtualized kernels.
VMware vCenter virtual machines

For information about the interoperability between powered off VMware vCenter virtual machines and vCenter Converter Standalone, see VMware Product Interoperability Matrices.

VMware virtual machines

For information about the interoperability between vCenter Converter Standalone and powered off hosted VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion virtual machines, see VMware Product Interoperability Matrices.

Hyper-V Server virtual machines

For Hyper-V Server versions distributed with Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, Windows 11, and Windows Server 2022, powered off virtual machines with the following guest operating systems:

  • Windows Server 2012 (64-bit)
  • Windows Server 2012 R2 (64-bit)
  • Windows 10 (64-bit) (except Home editions)
  • Windows Server 2016 (64-bit)
  • Windows Server 2019 (64-bit)
  • Windows 11 (64-bit)
  • Windows Server 2022 (64-bit)

For other Hyper-V Server sources, perform the procedure for powered on source machines.