Remove Old Hidden Devices from a VM after P2V Conversion
After you have converted a Windows server to a virtual machine, some redundant hardware devices may not be removed in the process.
This issue is very common with network devices. When setting the IP in a VM you may get and error saying a network card already has that IP assigned. But there are no other network devices listed in your Network Connections Window .
Well there might be, but there hidden and you just need to reveal them and remove them. Its quite easy and this is how you go about doing it:
Open a command prompt on the Windows VM (Start --> Run --> cmd).
set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1
Type devmgmt.msc on run prompt
In the device management console (View --> Show Hidden Devices).
Uninstall the devices that are no longer required. Such as old network devices.