Update 19th February 2018: This article has had a lot more attention than I ever expected! This has bought to light several issues with the process as well as changes made to Hyper-V and ESXi that break the process. You could wade through all 256 comments and assemble the corrections yourself, but user @Gambit has helpfully done this for me! So I’ve included the summary here: @Tom Watson: Adding a
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