VMware Communities: Message List - converter-cli.exe generates error "Neither "p2v.dest" or "p2v.postProcessingParams....."

Re: converter-cli.exe generates error "Neither "p2v.dest" or "p2v.postProcessingParams....."

MauroBonder — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:04:35 GMT

i find more information:

follow: "I too am curious about this. I originally went about trying to generate the p2v file using vcb2p2vXml.exe however I am not sure that is the right method. From what I have pieced together you feed p2vtool.exe some parameters along with an xml file and the end result is that the physical machine gets copied and registered with a VMware host. Is this correct? Is there an easier way to generate the xml file? Apparently me and "Guru" are completely missing the point of this toolset"

i get from: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/184288

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Re: converter-cli.exe generates error "Neither "p2v.dest" or "p2v.postProcessingParams....."

mail4visu — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:29:08 GMT

I was not able to find any answer in the link provided. Please let me know some other alternative to solve this issue.

Thanks in advance.

Re: converter-cli.exe generates error "Neither "p2v.dest" or "p2v.postProcessingParams....."

MauroBonder — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:57:27 GMT

Below is a link to a decent troubleshooting write up for the error you received.

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=1004615&sliceId=1

Best practices for using and troubleshooting VMware Converter

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1004588&sliceId=2&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&dialogID=20578335&stateId=1%200%2020576729

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converter-cli.exe generates error "Neither "p2v.dest" or "p2v.postProcessingParams....."

mail4visu — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:13:52 GMT

Hi all,

I want to import the vm image to the ESX server out of the p2v.xml file generated by vcb2p2vXml.exe
When I try to execute converter-cli.exe with the genrated p2v.xml file, I am getting the below error

Application error: Neither "p2v.dest" or "p2v.postProcessingParams" was given in task input!

Execution of:

vcb2p2vxml.exe:
vcb2p2vxml.exe -h <esx-host-name> - u username -p password -v F:\fullvm\H_Win2k3_MS2.vmx

converter-cli.exe:
converter-cli.exe -s p2v.xml