Hyper-V did not find any virtual machines to import ...

I was unable to import any of the four VMs, VHDx files, that I created in a prior Windows 10 install. I was using Hyper-V manager. I got the error message in the title of this thread.

Im pretty sure that the VHDx files were created using Windows 10, not 7, if that matters. Also using the Inspect Disk menu item, I was able to verify that all these VMs are Dynamically expanding virtual hard disk,

I ran a Take Ownership process on these VHDx files, but I was still unsuccessful in importing them into Hyper-V

And yes, I did RTFM. meaning the relevant tutorials.

Windows 10 2H22 19045.4608. I need to get some VMs running so I can properly migrate this Win 10 desktop to Win 11, meaning do some tests in VMs.

Are you trying to imprt the .vhdx files?
You should import the .vmcx file.

If you don't have those files anymore create a new vm, and then attach the .vhdx files as harddisk..

Tester said:

Are you trying to imprt the .vhdx files?
You should import the .vmcx file.

If you don't have those files anymore create a new vm, and then attach the .vhdx files as harddisk..

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OK Will do when I get home. Appreciate the quick response.

Moderators: May I humbly suggest adding this point to the tut's.

You need the vm config files to be copied to a subdirectory and then change menu settings to point to that directory.

Then you have to import the vms keeping the guids (assuming vms were activated).

Then you can add the vhdx files.

The tenforum tutorials explain how to import the vms.