**Sophos don't support Hyper-V at time of writing, so any issues and you're on your own and I take no liability/warranty on this.**
For those who require to run Sophos SPX Virtual Email Appliance on Microsoft Hyper-V platform can do so very easily.
1) Download ESXi 4.1 images of the virtual appliance from Sophos trial section or if you have a live Virtual appliance(s) running then export those as .vmdk
2) On any windows machine, install XenConvert. I did this on a 2k8 R2 Enterprise box using the 64 bit version.
3) Run XenConvert
4) Select convert from "VMWare Virtual Hard Disk (VMDK)"
5) Select convert to "XenServer Virtual Hard Disk (VHD)" - Ignore it says XenServer
6) Select both of the Sophos VMDK files (Base and Opt). You'll have to run through the process twice as you can only do one file at a time.
7) You may receive errors during the process - ignore them
8) Build a new Hyper-V machine
9) Add 2 IDE controllers - first as the base.vhd and second as the opt.vhd
10) Remove the network card and add a legacy one instead.
Notes:
Hyper-V may assign the VHDs as Dynamic disks, for performance I suggest converting them to fixed size.
Assign 4 CPUs rather than the default 1.
If the appliance hangs on the white screen of Sophos booting then the opt.vhd file hasn't converted correctly or not present.
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