Can't import VHD created by Hyper-V into Parallels for Mac (latest build)

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DanielKornev

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Hello, we've just installed Parallels for Mac (latest build) and want to be able to run our vhd we've created using Hyper-V in Windows 8 (Dev Preview).

File format is vhd (we specifically checked this, cause by default Hyper-V in Windows 8 uses vhdx).

We used import of VM using Parallels for Mac UI but it said it couldn't use the VM we've got by exporting it from Windows Hyper-V.

Then we created a simple VM file as it was recommended here (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4065682/importing-a-vhd-into-parallels-desktop-6-on-the-mac), with absolute path to the VHD, and tried to import this new VM, but that also didn't help.

Finally, we tried use prl_convert ($ /Library/Parallels/Parallels\ Service.app/Contents/PlugIns/Parallels\ VM\ Converter.app/Contents/MacOS/prl_convert your_disk_image.vhd) with absolute path to our vhd, but utility said that it couldn't work with this file. Just to clarify, it clearly wasn't a message like file not found or something else. (I'm writing this from my Windows PC, don't have access to that Mac right now).

What should we do to get this vhd working in this Mac?
 
Here is the error that prl_convert tool gives when we try to convert the .vhd file:


Error: The source virtual machine or disk is neither a third-party virtual machine nor a third-party virtual disk.
 
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