We have a significant investment in Win8 Hyper-V Client VMs, but decided to change to VMWare primarily due to USB and Audio support missing from Hyper-V, and this cripples our use in dev/test. We were told by pre-sale support that Workstation supports importing Hyper-V, but apparently they didn't know the difference between Hyper-V Server and Hyper-V Client, now it's "tough luck" from their tech support (who also apparently didn't know anything about it from their scripts).
Searching before calling shows I'm not the first to hit this. I see all sorts of crazy gymnastics including use of VPC and third party free/shareware to get things working, but it's hard to believe that nearly half a year after Win8 is available to the general public, VMWare has NOTHING useful to offer. Many of our existing VMs are Win8, and as far as I can tell the instructions for their live/hot convert using the Converter 5 does not work with a Win8 guest. After making the changes suggested, I still get the insufficient privileges error.
So, hoping but not expecting, has anyone found a reasonably sane way to convert dozens of Hyper-V Client VMs to VMW WS? I've never used VMWare before, but I'm quickly learning to loath it. If it were not for the missing hardware access in Hyper-V, I would much prefer to stay there.