I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard VM that was exported from Xenserver 6.5 perhaps 10 years ago. The export is servername.ovf along with a pair of [uuid].vhd files. The source of the export was an HP server with a paid of Xeon E5s... maybe 2640 or similar. The new target is variety of Dell Poweredges with various "modern" Xeons (eg, 6226R). There's a HUGE architectural difference.

I have tried:

1. Importing the OVF, which fails complaining about the disks
2. TAR'd the OVF and VHDs into an OVA, which also fails
3. I've tried these with two versions of XCP Center and two versions of XO targeting three versions of XCP (8.1, 8.2, and 8.3)
4. Importing just the VHDs via XO, that fails

I poked around on the google and Gemini suggested using vbox to convert the VHD to a VMDK, but I think that's incorrect, and it doesn't work anyway.... Vbox bombs out with "could not get the storage format" of the VHD.

Does anyone have any idea on how I might be able to get this ancient @$$ VM running again?