Vmware fusion to hyper-v on Windows 8

I am trying to figure out if I can convert my VMWare Fusion images to Hyper-V images. I want to move from my Mac OS X running VMWare Fusion to Windows 8 running Hyper-V, I want to take my VMs with me. Is there a tool or method to do that. The only references
I have found are out of date. 
Thanks
Matt

I assume you are doing this on a Mac.
keep in mind you will lose some functionality going to Hyper-V.
Hyper-V was designed for server virtualization and is missing features you may take for granted:
Sound support, 3d graphics, usb redirection, etc.
Yes, there is a "work around" (more like a hack in my opinion) that allows some of this functionality if you connect to the Hyper-V VM through RDP as opposed to the console directly. But that solution has it's own problems: You must enable RDP
on the VM and ensure network connectivity between host and guest (depending on the reason for the VM this is not always desirable or even acceptable).
Furthermore, if this is a MacBook Retina (with no Ethernet port), keep in mind you will need to share your wireless connection between host and guest. Bridging wireless connections does not work reliably under Hyper-V, resulting in network connectivity for
both the host and guest dropping periodically. Again, there is a work around for this by creating an 'internal' hyper-v network between the host and guest and then enabling windows internet sharing on your wifi adapter. This has some strong limitations, i.e.
the guest will be NAT-ted and the host will act as dhcp server and dns relay for the VM and is for all practical purposes, not configurable.

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