VMware Communities : Unanswered Threads - Converter

PtoV Network Traffic

gregtaylor — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:27:43 GMT

Does anyone know the precise way network traffic is generated when you
PtoV a server? There is obviously traffic to the VMWare console as
there must be to the SAN disks. We are seeing excessive traffic on our
data network and PtoV is taking 90 minutes on a relatively small server. The problem is that we have 3 computer rooms (hence the virtualisation project) and I suspect we are generating a lot of network traffic on the backbone. I wonder if there is some way we can use VLANs to try to
speed up the PtoV and still leave the main data network fairly lighly used.

Greg

Conversion fails on starting second disk

robertwhaler — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:19:01 GMT

I am having an issue when converting a windows 2003 SP2 server using VConverter standalone version 4. If I just conver the C:\ drive it converts fine, but the instant I include the D:\ drive, or try to adjust the size down, it fails. Can anybody see what might be going on, as I haven't been able to figure it out in looking at the logs.

Thanks
Steve

Vmware Converter .sv2i to vmdk with commandline

AndyP2009 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:54:59 GMT

How can I use the converter on Windows command line.
I try to convert a .sv2i file into a vmdk file.

With the graphical interface works.
Does this also work in the command line?

Kind regards

Andy

Unable to P2V Ubuntu 8.04 to esxi 3.5

sbinder — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:12:29 GMT

I'm not sure what's going on. There are 2 disks on this Ubuntu Workstation (Each 40 GB).

The Converter job gets to 49% and my Ubuntu workstation freezes. (Note: I am running converter 4 on a windows Vist Workstation)

I have tried this a couple times and the same thing happens.

Below are the diagnostics.

Anyone have any sugestions?

Problem Starting Win2K3-64bit Enterprise after P2V-ed 100% CPU

habibalby — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:33:02 GMT

Hello,
I have P2V-ed Our Exchange 2007 Server, 1 Node is fine without any problem. But the Second node is giving problem in booting, loging, even when I start to click inside the VM, the response will be very slow or someting there is no response at all. The CPU utlization it always shows 100 %.

When this VM P2V-ed, the initiall configuration it was with 4096 memory and 4 vCPU. I kept the default and try to boot, still same symptoms. I have changed memory to 6 gig and 2 vCPU, with no luck.

Also, in the ESX Server, i have changed the Advanced Settings -> Mem -> "Mem.SharedScanGHz" to 0 instead of 4 the default. But still no luck.

I have also, created a new 64 bit VM and use the existing disk which was P2V-ed, still no luck

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Best Regards,

Hussain Al Sayed

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convert windows 2000 server on Vmware server 202

TestVM1 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:02:31 GMT

Hello there,
I use VI3 infrastructure and would like to use Vmware server 202 installed on a windows 2000 server machine for disaster recovery.
I backed up using VCB a W2K server residing on VI3.
I copied all VCB files to the Vmware server 202 and I tried to convert it numerous times, using a different machine name and IP but although it converts the machine, it does not change the machine name and IP as I specified. I have sysprep tools installed. Thank you.

description = "InitrdNativePatcher failed to generate initrd image

micsame — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:54:12 GMT

Need help stock at 97%

I am trying to convert a SUSE SLES 10 SP1 x64 running IBM DB2 9.7 x64. I use Vmware ESXi 4.0 Server installed on an IBM x3650 7979KFG server (the server already runs other vmware clones). For the cloning I use VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Client 4.0.1.

Everything seems to be ok until the process reach 97% where it fails. I have tried different solutions with no luck, fx. start from a fresh boot, running fsck, disabling the firewall, limit the clone to only contain the most important disk partitions (I have a partition with a lot of data)

The Vmware ESXi server and the DB2 server are in the same subnet. I have converted other servers with success.

The end of the log file:

~~2009-11-10 16:19:28.347 AE59CB90 verbose 'TaskSummary'~~ UpdateTask

(converter.task.TaskInfo) {

dynamicType = <unset>,

key = "task-27",

task = 'converter.task.Task:task-27',

name = "Convert",

descriptionId = "Convert.P2V",

userName = "michael",

source = "192.168.127.121",

target = "192.168.127.123/db2-kanet",

state = "error",

cancelled = false,

cancelable = true,

data = <unset>,

error = (converter.fault.CloneFault) {

dynamicType = <unset>,

faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null,

description = "InitrdNativePatcher failed to generate initrd image: /usr/lib/vmware-converter/initrdGenSuse.sh failed with return code: 1, and message: * /mnt/p2v-src-root/dev has 2 files

/dev/shm is not a directory

ERROR: failed running mkinitrd vmlinuz-2.6.27.19-5-default initrd-2.6.27.19-5-default with chroot /mnt/p2v-src-root

umounting /mnt/p2v-src-root/dev /mnt/p2v-src-root/proc and /mnt/p2v-src-root/sys

",

msg = "An error occurred during the conversion.",

},

result = <unset>,

progress = 97,

estimatedTimeRemaining = <unset>,

transferRate = 6398,

queueTime = "2009-11-10T12:39:24.785171Z",

startTime = "2009-11-10T12:39:25.058318Z",

completeTime = "2009-11-10T15:19:28.343297Z",

eventChainId = 427,

vcTask = <unset>,

logBundleInfo = (converter.DiagnosticManager.TaskLogBundleInfo) {

dynamicType = <unset>,

key = "task-27-diag-20091110151918-RPHPIF.zip",

timeCreated = "2009-11-10T15:19:18.738963Z",

format = "zip",

content = (converter.DiagnosticManager.BundleContent) [

"agentLogs",

"serverLogs"

],

size = 5183932,

crc = -1807028430,

},

}

~~2009-11-10 16:27:32.190 B30EB6B0 verbose 'ConverterFrontEnd'~~ Keep alive signal sent at: 2009-11-10 15:27:32.189

any help will be valued

Problem starting W2k3 server converted with 4.0.1 in ESXi

gdrauch — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:04:52 GMT

We have tried several times to convert a Windows Server 2003 box using 4.0.1, both remotely and locally. The conversion finishes and the machine shows up in inventory on ESXi. However, when we start the VM it hangs shortly after the VMWare screen. When you send a Ctrl-Alt-Del to the machine a two line message flashes but it's gone before you can read it. Does anyone know what is going on? I've read some of the other threads and have tried disabling the anti-virus and any local firewall settings to no avail.

We successfully created new VMs on the ESXi box. We just have 4 or 5 additional machines we need to convert. It would be undesirable (to say the least) to have to build these from scratch.

Thanks for your help.

Can't access the converter server remotely

damko — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:52:41 GMT

Hi, I'm Dam and this is my first post in the community.

I installed Converter standalone on a debian lenny. Connecting to the server locally avoiding the tcp based login works perfectly.

At this point it should be possible to go on another client machine
and install just the client side of the application and try to connect
it to the server. Well it
doesn't work at all. I tried with linux and windows client even with
the original ports (80, 443), even locally using the tcp connection on
127.0.0.1 and with different users (root included). I tried to disable
the ssl but there is noway to make it working.

All the time the client pops up this error message: "Server logon failed due to a bad username or password"

On the server side, where the problem seems to be, this is the common error written into the log file:

[2009-11-09 21:09:09.707 EFCDAB90 verbose 'Ufa.HTTPService'] User agent is 'VMware-client/4.0.0' [2009-11-09 21:09:09.707 EFCDAB90 verbose 'Ufa.HTTPService'] HTTP Response: Client: NeedsContentLength: false UnderstandsChunking: true CanKeepAlive: true (PresetContentLength -1) [#3] [2009-11-09 21:09:09.707 EFCDAB90 verbose 'Ufa.HTTPService'] HTTP Response: Complete (processed 1491 bytes) [2009-11-09 21:09:09.751 EECDAB90 verbose 'Ufa.HTTPService'] User agent is 'VMware-client/4.0.0' [2009-11-09 21:09:09.751 EECDAB90 verbose 'Ufa.HTTPService'] HTTP Response: Client: NeedsContentLength: false UnderstandsChunking: true CanKeepAlive: true (PresetContentLength -1) [#3] [2009-11-09 21:09:09.751 F04DAB90 error 'App'] [user,776] Failed to authenticate user root [#3] [2009-11-09 21:09:09.767 F04DAB90 verbose 'App'] [eventManager,2037] [EventManager] Event[97] [2009-11-09 21:09:09.767 F04DAB90 verbose 'Ufa.HTTPService'] User agent is 'VMware-client/4.0.0' [2009-11-09 21:09:09.767 F04DAB90 verbose 'Ufa.HTTPService'] HTTP Response: Client: NeedsContentLength: false UnderstandsChunking: true CanKeepAlive: true (PresetContentLength -1) [2009-11-09 21:09:09.767 F04DAB90 verbose 'Ufa.HTTPService'] HTTP Response: Complete (processed 573 bytes) [2009-11-09 21:09:59.705 F3BC46B0 warning 'App'] Read timeout after approximately 50000ms. Closing stream UNIX(/var/lib/vmware-vcenter-converter-standalone/vmware-converter-server-soap) Can you help me please?Best regardsDam

Convert VMs from vSphere change mouse driver in XP SP3 from VMMouse to Compatible PS2 -> slow mouse!

Virgile — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:28:22 GMT

Hello,

I use vCenter Converter in order to shrink the VMs on my vSphere, and I just find out that after a conversion, the VMs get a horribly slow mouse: in fact the driver change from vmmouse to mouse compatible ps2 (default driver for XP).

I have the last converter (4.0.1) and a uptodate vspshere, what should I do ?

thx!

Unable to contact the specified host 'hostname' from the Converter Agent machine.

JohnnyNeckU — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:35:11 GMT

Hi all,

I read a thread similar to mine, but I didn't understand the answer.

So here's my problem :

From my PC, I'm running VMware vCenter Converter Standalone version 4.0.1 build 161434. I try to convert a physical machine to one of my host which is under ESXi 4.0.0 build 161434.

"When I try to run convertng I get this error message : Unable to contact the specified host .hostname. from the Converter Agent machine. This might be because the host is not available on the network, there is a network configuration problem, or the management services on the management services on this host are not responding. Please verify that all Converter components are able to connect to 'hostname'."

I don't really understand why this is happening because it works well last I'd used it.

Any Idea?

Thanks

Johnny

Unable to launch Converter Standalone on Seven x64 and x32

Virgile — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:18:36 GMT

Hello!

I'm using the converter standalone for resizing and cloning VMs on my vSphere (I don't have vcenter neither vmotion).

I installed this converter (last one, 4.01) on a XP VM, and it works great.

Now I tried to install it directly on my laptop (seven pro x64) , and when I start it, the app tells me that it's not possible to start the converter server..

I've tried on another physical PC with seven pro x32, and the same problem happened

I did already desactivate UAC (I read somwhere that it could be the problem), and I tried to start the converter server service manually, without anymore results.

Thank you for helping!

unable to query the live linux source machine

rfm01 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:48:23 GMT

I am having problems converting P2V Linux (Debian) system.

I have looked at all the google results concerning the above converter error but still cannot solve the problem.

I am running the converter from a windows XP Pro system (dutch language).

I have SSH root access, have checked the source machines logs and can logon, i have tested with sftp clients and can logon and create files in the /tmp directory. There is no echo in the .bashrc file.

For some reason i am still getting the 'unable to query the live linux source machine' error.

I have tested this from three different pc's (in different networks) using the standalone converter. The error is consistent.

In all the cases a get (about) the same log file from the converter:

+++++++++++++++

Section for VMware vCenter Converter Standalone, pid=3140, version=4.0.1, build=build-161434, option=Release
~~2009-11-03 14:00:51.476 05764 info 'App'~~ Current working directory: C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware vCenter Converter Standalone
~~2009-11-03 14:00:51.476 05764 info 'Libs'~~ HOSTINFO: Seeing Intel CPU, numCoresPerCPU 1 numThreadsPerCore 2.
~~2009-11-03 14:00:51.476 05764 info 'Libs'~~ HOSTINFO: This machine has 1 physical CPUS, 1 total cores, and 2 logical CPUs.
~~2009-11-03 14:00:51.476 05764 verbose 'ThreadPool'~~ TaskMax=10, IoMin=1, IoMax=21
~~2009-11-03 14:00:51.476 05764 info 'Libs'~~ Using system libcrypto, version 9070AF
~~2009-11-03 14:00:53.647 05764 info 'App'~~ Vmacore::InitSSL: doVersionCheck = true, handshakeTimeoutUs = 120000000
~~2009-11-03 14:00:53.647 02664 info 'BaseServerConnection'~~ Connecting to server on pipeName \\.\pipe\vmware-converter-server-soap.
SSL:false
Path:/converter/sdk
VMODL version:converter.version.version1

~~2009-11-03 14:00:53.647 02664 info 'BaseServerConnection'~~ NOT using SSL to connect to VMOMI server \\.\pipe\vmware-converter-server-soap
~~2009-11-03 14:00:53.647 02664 info 'ConverterServerConnPipe'~~ Getting ServiceInstance contents
~~2009-11-03 14:00:53.647 02664 verbose 'ConverterServerConnPipe'~~ Yes, we connected to Converter Server.
~~2009-11-03 14:00:53.647 02664 info 'ServerLoginSession'~~ Logging in to Converter Server (Using Impersonate).
~~2009-11-03 14:00:54.101 02664 info 'ServerLoginSession'~~ Converter Server session established. (Session ID = "0CF734D5-3893-4A32-9847-667C592ECB42")
~~2009-11-03 14:00:56.132 05764 info 'BaseServerConnection'~~ Connecting to server on pipeName \\.\pipe\vmware-converter-server-soap.
SSL:false
Path:/converter/sdk
VMODL version:converter.version.version1

~~2009-11-03 14:00:56.132 05764 info 'BaseServerConnection'~~ NOT using SSL to connect to VMOMI server \\.\pipe\vmware-converter-server-soap
~~2009-11-03 14:00:56.132 05764 info 'ConverterServerConnPipe'~~ Getting ServiceInstance contents
~~2009-11-03 14:00:56.132 05764 verbose 'ConverterServerConnPipe'~~ Yes, we connected to Converter Server.
~~2009-11-03 14:00:56.132 05764 info 'ServerLoginSession'~~ Logging in to Converter Server (Using Impersonate).
~~2009-11-03 14:00:56.929 05764 info 'ServerLoginSession'~~ Converter Server session established. (Session ID = "A23923CA-1F20-4668-BC80-E89B6D0AF5B0")
~~2009-11-03 14:00:57.304 05764 error 'App'~~ SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildFilter 3rd party type microsoftVirtualPCVM not found
~~2009-11-03 14:00:57.304 05764 error 'App'~~ SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildFilter 3rd party type parallelsVM not found
~~2009-11-03 14:00:57.304 05764 error 'App'~~ SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildFilter 3rd party type vmwareVCBBackup not found
~~2009-11-03 14:00:57.304 05764 error 'App'~~ SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildFilter 3rd party type livestateBackup not found
~~2009-11-03 14:00:57.304 05764 error 'App'~~ SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildFilter 3rd party type shadowProtectBackup not found
~~2009-11-03 14:00:57.304 05764 error 'App'~~ SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildFilter 3rd party type acronisBackup not found
~~2009-11-03 14:00:57.304 05764 error 'App'~~ SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildFilter 3rd party type vmwareVM not found
~~2009-11-03 14:00:57.304 05764 error 'App'~~ SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildThirdpartyHostedExtVector 3rd party type vmwareVM not found
~~2009-11-03 14:10:54.234 05764 verbose 'ConverterFrontEnd'~~ Keep alive signal sent at: 2009-11-03 13:10:54.234
~~2009-11-03 14:20:54.244 05764 verbose 'ConverterFrontEnd'~~ Keep alive signal sent at: 2009-11-03 13:20:54.244
~~2009-11-03 14:30:54.155 05764 verbose 'ConverterFrontEnd'~~ Keep alive signal sent at: 2009-11-03 13:30:54.155
~~2009-11-03 14:30:54.155 03524 verbose 'ConverterImpl'~~ ConverterImpl::TaskCollectorThread: TimeoutException
~~2009-11-03 14:31:04.186 03524 verbose 'ConverterImpl'~~ PropertyCollector::WaitForUpdates[1]
(vmodl.query.PropertyCollector.UpdateSet) {
dynamicType = <unset>,
version = "1",
}

+++++++++++++++

This is the log on the linux source machine (the one i want to conver from p2v).

+++++++++++++++

Nov 3 14:26:46 servername sshd32160: Accepted password for root from 999.999.999.999 port 2270 ssh2
Nov 3 14:26:46 servername sshd32162: (pam_unix) session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Nov 3 14:26:47 servername sshd32163: Accepted password for root from 999.999.999.999 port 2271 ssh2
Nov 3 14:26:47 servername sshd32165: (pam_unix) session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Nov 3 14:26:48 servername sshd32166: Accepted password for root from 999.999.999.999 port 2272 ssh2
Nov 3 14:26:48 servername sshd32166: subsystem request for sftp
Nov 3 14:26:48 servername sshd32168: (pam_unix) session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Nov 3 14:26:59 servername sshd32169: Accepted password for root from 999.999.999.999 port 2273 ssh2
Nov 3 14:26:59 servername sshd32171: (pam_unix) session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Nov 3 14:26:59 servername sshd32174: Accepted password for root from 999.999.999.999 port 2274 ssh2
Nov 3 14:26:59 servername sshd32176: (pam_unix) session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Nov 3 14:27:00 servername sshd32182: Accepted password for root from 999.999.999.999 port 2275 ssh2
Nov 3 14:27:00 servername sshd32184: (pam_unix) session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Nov 3 14:27:00 servername sshd32185: Accepted password for root from 999.999.999.999 port 2276 ssh2

+++++++++++++++

(i have substituted my ip number with 999 / i have substituded the name of the server by 'servername' ).

Can someone please help me with this problem.

VMWare Converter 4.01. build 161434 fails to convert running WinXP at 90%

LukasPS — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:10:34 GMT

Hello

I tried to convert from a running Win XP and get the Status: "FAILED: A system error encounteres during an operation".

I made a chkdsk /f on the targed and on the soure disk. Both are ok!

I tried to minimalize my system with msconfig.exe (i choosed diagnostic mode and i only activated the vmware services and made a reboot)
the conversion process unfortunately didn' t changed.

vm-ware-converter-agent-9.log:

Fist some fragments in the starting procedure

4 App ~~2009-10-28 15:19:27.608 00408 verbose 'App'~~ VimConnectionStore stopping keepalive
4 App ~~2009-10-28 15:19:27.608 00408 info 'App'~~ Scheduled timer canceled, StopKeepAlive succeeds
~~2009-10-28 15:19:27.608 00408 error 'App'~~ Already Exists
~~2009-10-28 15:19:27.608 00408 verbose 'Ufa.HTTPService'~~ User agent is 'VMware-client/4.0.0'
~~2009-10-28 15:19:27.608 00408 verbose 'Ufa.HTTPService'~~ HTTP Response: Client: NeedsContentLength: false UnderstandsChunking: true CanKeepAlive: true (PresetContentLength -1)

:
5 task-1 ~~2009-10-28 15:19:46.142 01456 info 'App'~~ ,0 Partition:Invalid sector magic number.
5 task-1 ~~2009-10-28 15:19:46.142 01456 info 'App'~~ ,0 Disk number 1 has been skipped because of errors while reading partition table
5 task-1 ~~2009-10-28 15:19:46.142 01456 info 'App'~~ ,0 Partition:Invalid sector magic number.
5 task-1 ~~2009-10-28 15:19:46.142 01456 info 'App'~~ ,0 Disk number 1 has been skipped because of errors while reading dynamic disks header or LDM database is corrupted
5 task-1 ~~2009-10-28 15:19:46.142 01456 info 'App'~~ ,0 Partition:Invalid sector magic number.
5 task-1 ~~2009-10-28 15:19:46.142 01456 info 'App'~~ ,0 Partition:Invalid sector magic number.
5 task-1 ~~2009-10-28 15:19:46.142 01456 info 'App'~~ ,0 Partition:Invalid sector magic number.
5 task-1 ~~2009-10-28 15:19:46.142 01456 info 'App'~~ ,0 Partition:Invalid sector magic number.
5 task-1 ~~2009-10-28 15:19:46.142 01456 info 'App'~~ volumeBasedCloneTask,1122 Partitioning disk 0
5 task-1 ~~2009-10-28 15:19:46.142 01456 info 'App'~~ ,0

5 task-1 ~~2009-10-28 15:19:46.142 01456 info 'App'~~ ,0 ....Creating MBR Partition Table ....
5 task-1 ~~2009-10-28 15:19:46.142 01456 info 'App'~~ ,0 ..... Partition Entry: 0 .....
5 task-1 ~~2009-10-28 15:19:46.142 01456 info 'App'~~ ,0 .....Current Partition Offset 0: .....
5 task-1 ~~2009-10-28 15:19:46.142 01456 info 'App'~~ ,0 .....Current Partition Offset 0: .....
5 task-1 ~~2009-10-28 15:19:46.142 01456 info 'App'~~ ,0 ...Boot Indicator: 0X80
5 task-1 ~~2009-10-28 15:19:46.142 01456 info 'App'~~ ,0 ...Partition Type Id 0X7
5 task-1 ~~2009-10-28 15:19:46.142 01456 info 'App'~~ ,0 ...Starting Head 1
5 task-1 ~~2009-10-28 15:19:46.142 01456 info 'App'~~ ,0 ...Starting Sector 1
5 task-1 ~~2009-10-28 15:19:46.142 01456 info 'App'~~ ,0 ...Starting Cylinder 0
5 task-1 ~~2009-10-28 15:19:46.142 01456 info 'App'~~ ,0 ...Ending Head 15
5 task-1 ~~2009-10-28 15:19:46.142 01456 info 'App'~~ ,0 ...Ending Sector 63
5 task-1 ~~2009-10-28 15:19:46.142 01456 info 'App'~~ ,0 ...Ending Cylinder 1023
5 task-1 ~~2009-10-28 15:19:46.142 01456 info 'App'~~ ,0 ...Relative Sectors 63
5 task-1 ~~2009-10-28 15:19:46.142 01456 info 'App'~~ ,0 ...Total Sectors 312576705
5 task-1 ~~2009-10-28 15:19:46.142 01456 info 'App'~~ ,0

5 task-1 ~~2009-10-28 15:19:46.142 01456 info 'App'~~ ,0 Partition 0: offset: 0
5 task-1 ~~2009-10-28 15:19:46.220 01456 info 'App'~~ volumeBasedCloneTask,809 Scheduling cloning from source volume \\?\Volume{71a23312-f9af-11dd-8f30-806d6172696f}\ to destination disk 0 partition 1:

5 task-1 ~~2009-10-28 15:20:01.620 01456 verbose 'App'~~ blockLevelVolumeCloningTaskImpl,2393 Block-level volume cloning options: (converter.agent.internal.VolumeBlockCloningOptions) {
5 task-1 dynamicType = <unset>,
5 task-1 skipPageFiles = true,
5 task-1 skipBadBlocks = true,
5 task-1 skipSystemRestore = true,
5 task-1 compareTargetToSource = false,
5 task-1 skipZeroSectors = true,
5 task-1 expandFileSystem = true,
5 task-1 finalPass = true,
5 task-1 useDirtyBitmap = false,
5 task-1 }
~~2009-10-28 15:20:01.620 01028 verbose 'Ufa.HTTPService'~~ HTTP Response: Complete (processed 938 bytes)
~~2009-10-28 15:20:01.620 03740 verbose 'Ufa.HTTPService'~~ User agent is 'VMware-client/4.0.0'
~~2009-10-28 15:20:01.620 03740 verbose 'Ufa.HTTPService'~~ HTTP Response: Client: NeedsContentLength: false UnderstandsChunking: true CanKeepAlive: true (PresetContentLength -1)
5 task-1 ~~2009-10-28 15:20:01.620 01456 warning 'App'~~ blockLevelVolumeCloningTaskImpl,2415 Unable to get source volume cluster info 87 Will NOT attempt to skip over unused clusters
5 task-1 ~~2009-10-28 15:20:01.620 01456 warning 'App'~~ blockLevelVolumeCloningTaskImpl,1373 Unable to get bad blocks extents for \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1\. Error: 87
5 task-1 ~~2009-10-28 15:20:01.620 01456 info 'App'~~ blockLevelVolumeCloningTaskImpl,2547 For step 0 stepSkipUnusedClusters = 0
5 task-1 ~~2009-10-28 15:21:41.325 01456 info 'task-1'~~ ConvertTask updates, state: 1, percentage: 1, xfer rate (Bps): <unknown>
5 task-1 ~~2009-10-28 15:21:41.325 01456 verbose 'PropertyProvider'~~ RecordOp ASSIGN: info, task-1
5 task-1 ~~2009-10-28 15:21:41.325 01456 info 'App'~~ blockLevelVolumeCloningTaskImpl,2694 Cloning progress changed 1
5 task-1 ~~2009-10-28 15:21:41.325 01456 info 'task-1'~~ ConvertTask updates, state: 1, percentage: 1, xfer rate (Bps): 16066712
5 task-1 ~~2009-10-28 15:21:41.325 01456 verbose 'PropertyProvider'~~ RecordOp ASSIGN: info, task-1
~~2009-10-28 15:21:41.325 03728 verbose 'Ufa.HTTPService'~~ HTTP Response: Complete (processed 1166 bytes)
~~2009-10-28 15:21:41.341 03724 verbose 'Ufa.HTTPService'~~ User agent is 'VMware-client/4.0.0'
~~2009-10-28 15:21:41.341 03724 verbose 'Ufa.HTTPService'~~ HTTP Response: Client: NeedsContentLength: false UnderstandsChunking: true CanKeepAlive: true (PresetContentLength -1)

Mutch more later some logfragments befor the process failes (more than 2 hours later...)

~~2009-10-28 17:55:28.874 02080 verbose 'App'~~ ,0 DISKLIB-SPARSE: "E:\Schluecl_Bkp\vm_schluecl\target.vmdk" :* _failed to grow disk: There i~~2009-10-28 17:55:28.874 02080 verbose 'App'~~ ,0 DISKLIB-LIB : RWv failed ioId: #232845 (7340041) (9) .
~~2009-10-28 17:55:28.874 02080 error 'App'~~ blockLevelVolumeCloningTaskImpl,1195 Error 117440657 writing to the destination volume
~~2009-10-28 17:55:28.874 02080 error 'App'~~ BackgroundWriter,297 BackgroundWriter::ThreadFunc: write failed.

My source system has following memory:
61 GB used Memory
87,5 GB free memory

My external disk (connected via usb) has following memory:
90,6GB used memory
142 GB free memory

My question is, why are 142 GB free memory mot enough for generating a virtual machine of 61GB.
Do i need factor3 more mem than the source for example?
I checked the source and targed disk for bad blocks, both disks are ok!

Can anybody give me a hint?

*Thanks ... lukas**

p2v Fedora Core 4 email server

lil328i — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:19:28 GMT

Hi everyone,

So we have ONE machine left to convert in our infrastructure, saved the best for last, the email server.

It was built on a 5 yo HP DL 320 Raid 1 box, and runs Fedora Core 4 (Stentz), and Postfx as the email engine.

So far we attempted a remote hot migration using vmware converter which failed, something about the os not being supported as I recall.

Can anyone suggest anything?

We would also consider the VMware Virtual Appliance marketplace for a replacement if anyone can offer a suggestions for a good email server for 100 users, pref ubuntu.

Thanks!

Peter

P2V W2K3 With Oracle Not Working - 2nd Option

emcclend — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:54:23 GMT

We are getting ready to migrate our first oracle server, however we are having trouble. When using converter, it gets to about 95% and fails. When looking at the physical server we see that it has rebooted and and come back with and unexpected shutdown error. So rather than continue on and end up with a possible bad conversion, we are thinking about rebuilding the server from scratch as a VM, however I'm not an oracle guy and I have to try and get the oracle guy comfortable with virtualization. I don't know enough about oracle to even ask the right questions to our oracle person to help them along in the process.

What I was thinking was build a new VM from scratch. We have mulitple drives on the physical server so I would mimic that in the new VM with the same drive letters. After that I was thininking about using Robocopy to move the data over to the new VM drives. From there I was thinking the oracle person can then install oracle, and point it the copied data that is now on the VM. I'm not sure how to move an oracle DB from one server to another and it sounds like my oracle person does not know how to either. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

CreateVm task failed: Error during the configuration of the host: configSpec.numCPUs

glemma — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:35:53 GMT

I am attempting to p2v a phyical server, we are running vsphere and ESX 4.0, converter 4.1.0 on both the vCenter server and phyical server.

The task fails with this error in both the logs files and the vCenter events show the following error:

"CreateVm task failed: Error during the configuration of the host: configSpec.numCPUs"

I suspect this may be due to the fact the server has 4 x 2 core CPU's (8 in total).

Can anyone help with this issue.

Thanks.

New Convertor installation not working

s1m0nb — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:25:58 GMT

After a new install of Virtual Center, I cannot seem to get the convertor working. There were no issues during the installation - service is running etc etc --The plugin is downloaded and activated on the client.

However when I try to import a machine I get and "unknown error"

Log on the client have:

Log for VMware Converter Enterprise Client, pid=4268, version=4.1.0, build=build-161418, option=Release, section=2
~~2009-10-28 08:02:09.047 'App' 6048 info~~ Current working directory: C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\Virtual Infrastructure Client\Launcher
~~2009-10-28 08:02:09.047 'Libs' 6048 info~~ HOSTINFO: Seeing Intel CPU, numCoresPerCPU 2 numThreadsPerCore 1.
~~2009-10-28 08:02:09.047 'Libs' 6048 info~~ HOSTINFO: This machine has 1 physical CPUS, 2 total cores, and 2 logical CPUs.
~~2009-10-28 08:02:09.047 'P2V' 6048 info~~ p2vSupport,253 P2V logger created
~~2009-10-28 08:02:09.047 'P2V' 6048 info~~ p2vSupport,255 Initialize SSL
~~2009-10-28 08:02:09.047 'Libs' 6048 info~~ Using system libcrypto, version 9070CF
~~2009-10-28 08:02:12.563 'App' 6048 info~~ Vmacore::InitSSL: doVersionCheck = true, handshakeTimeoutUs = 120000000
~~2009-10-28 08:02:12.563 'P2V' 6048 info~~ p2vSupport,262 SSL context created
~~2009-10-28 08:02:12.563 'P2V' 6048 info~~ p2vSupport,272 AppInit completed
~~2009-10-28 08:02:24.625 'P2V' 3184 info~~ task,275 Starting execution of a Task
~~2009-10-28 08:02:24.625 'ClientConnection' 3184 info~~ Making sure that UFAD interface has version vmware-converter-4.1.0
~~2009-10-28 08:02:24.625 'Libs' 3184 warning~~ SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStore: Subject mismatch: VMware vs 172.24.3.124
~~2009-10-28 08:02:24.625 'Libs' 3184 warning~~ SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStore: The remote host certificate has these problems:

The host name used for the connection does not match the subject name on the host certificate

~~2009-10-28 08:02:24.625 'Libs' 3184 warning~~ SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStore: Certificate verification is disabled, so connection will proceed despite the error
~~2009-10-28 08:02:25.641 'ClientConnection' 3184 info~~ UFAD interface version is vmware-converter-4.1.0
~~2009-10-28 08:02:25.844 'P2V' 3184 info~~ task,277 Task execution completed
~~2009-10-28 08:02:26.344 'P2V' 3184 info~~ task,275 Starting execution of a Task
~~2009-10-28 08:02:26.344 'Libs' 3184 warning~~ SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStore: Subject mismatch: VMware vs mucvc01
~~2009-10-28 08:02:26.344 'Libs' 3184 warning~~ SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStore: The remote host certificate has these problems:

The host name used for the connection does not match the subject name on the host certificate

~~2009-10-28 08:02:26.344 'Libs' 3184 warning~~ SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStore: Certificate verification is disabled, so connection will proceed despite the error
~~2009-10-28 08:02:26.360 'GetInventory' 3184 info~~ Connecting to host mucvc01 on port 443 using protocol https

~~2009-10-28 08:02:26.360 'Libs' 3184 warning~~ SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStore: Subject mismatch: VMware vs mucvc01
~~2009-10-28 08:02:26.360 'Libs' 3184 warning~~ SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStore: The remote host certificate has these problems:

The host name used for the connection does not match the subject name on the host certificate

~~2009-10-28 08:02:26.360 'Libs' 3184 warning~~ SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStore: Certificate verification is disabled, so connection will proceed despite the error
~~2009-10-28 08:02:32.203 'Libs' 6096 warning~~ SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStore: Subject mismatch: VMware vs mucvc01
~~2009-10-28 08:02:32.203 'Libs' 6096 warning~~ SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStore: The remote host certificate has these problems:

The host name used for the connection does not match the subject name on the host certificate

~~2009-10-28 08:02:32.203 'Libs' 6096 warning~~ SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStore: Certificate verification is disabled, so connection will proceed despite the error
~~2009-10-28 08:02:36.735 'P2V' 3184 error~~ task,301 Task failed: Incomplete header received
~~2009-10-28 08:02:52.422 'P2V' 4856 info~~ task,275 Starting execution of a Task
~~2009-10-28 08:02:52.422 'Libs' 4856 warning~~ SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStore: Subject mismatch: VMware vs mucvc01
~~2009-10-28 08:02:52.422 'Libs' 4856 warning~~ SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStore: The remote host certificate has these problems:

The host name used for the connection does not match the subject name on the host certificate

~~2009-10-28 08:02:52.438 'Libs' 4856 warning~~ SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStore: Certificate verification is disabled, so connection will proceed despite the error
~~2009-10-28 08:02:52.438 'GetInventory' 4856 info~~ Connecting to host mucvc01 on port 443 using protocol https

~~2009-10-28 08:02:52.453 'Libs' 4856 warning~~ SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStore: Subject mismatch: VMware vs mucvc01
~~2009-10-28 08:02:52.453 'Libs' 4856 warning~~ SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStore: The remote host certificate has these problems:

The host name used for the connection does not match the subject name on the host certificate

~~2009-10-28 08:02:52.453 'Libs' 4856 warning~~ SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStore: Certificate verification is disabled, so connection will proceed despite the error
~~2009-10-28 08:03:00.750 'Libs' 3184 warning~~ SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStore: Subject mismatch: VMware vs mucvc01
~~2009-10-28 08:03:00.750 'Libs' 3184 warning~~ SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStore: The remote host certificate has these problems:

The host name used for the connection does not match the subject name on the host certificate

~~2009-10-28 08:03:00.750 'Libs' 3184 warning~~ SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStore: Certificate verification is disabled, so connection will proceed despite the error
~~2009-10-28 08:03:06.500 'P2V' 4856 error~~ task,301 Task failed: Incomplete header received

On the Vcenter server

A certificate in the host's chain is based on an untrusted root.

~~2009-10-28 07:01:23.579 'Libs' 6940 warning~~ SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStore: Certificate verification is disabled, so connection will proceed despite the error
~~2009-10-28 07:01:23.595 'App' 6940 verbose~~ jobManager,1281 P2VJobManager started
1 ~~2009-10-28 07:01:23.595 'Sysimage' 7628 info~~ Session: B0BDF69E-9E5C-4F15-9C98-AE8A05DA9A2A; user MUCMSPDOM\dsbernar
1 ~~2009-10-28 07:01:23.595 'Sysimage' 7628 info~~ Active? false
1 ~~2009-10-28 07:01:23.595 'App' 7628 error~~ sessionManager,99 Login: non-active session
~~2009-10-28 07:01:23.595 'App' 5048 verbose~~ vcMonitor,290 ProcessUpdate, version := 1
2 ~~2009-10-28 07:02:27.664 'Sysimage' 7628 info~~ Session: 15EBC3E9-BAD6-4152-A0C4-AA917EAB6C65; user MUCMSPDOM\dsbernar
2 ~~2009-10-28 07:02:27.664 'Sysimage' 7628 info~~ Active? true
2 ~~2009-10-28 07:02:27.664 'App' 7628 info~~ Impersonating user __VMware_Converter__ in session 2B265673-3284-439C-9490-C9093CC23DD2

Any ideas..?

VMware Converter failed at 100%

eljub — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:59:39 GMT

Hello,

I tried to convert the sun Unified storage emulator in our ESX 3.5 server but each time I get a failed status at 100%.

I tried to convert the image to a workstation 6.5 then to my esx but I get the same result.

In the log I see a "converter.agent.internal.fault.PlatformError" but I don't know what to do ?

If someone have an idea, this would be great.

Thanks in advance

Converted XP-pro hangs before it finishes booting

JDlugosz — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:16:49 GMT

I converted an Acronis image of my PC (since I get VSS errors on a live convert).

When booting, it freezes on the XP splash screen, with the logo still on the right. That is, before it moves to the left and displays the users.

I've tried "safe mode".

Last time I worked on this, I found that driver logging didn't give anything useful since it seems to be well finished with that step.

Any clues?

Failed at 95%

Cregan — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:05:33 GMT

I am trying to convert my machine to a VM before starting over with Windows 7 but I keep getting an error at 95%.

I have cleaned up the boot.ini and it says "Updating boot.ini on the target machine's system volume is not needed." now and when I try and boot the image it starts to boot but get a 0x000007b BSOD.

I have 2 drives in the machine now that are both SATA and I am only converting 1 of them the other is where I am storing the VM image. the Drive 0 has 3 partitions C:, E:, F: ..

I have tried changing the controller to IDE and also have left it as Preserve source. Neither has worked.

I also get a SPTD.sys error if I try and boot in Safe more.

Anyone have an Idea?

VMware Converter 4.0.1 not displaying time remaining or percentage complete correctly - 96% 3mins remain

a2alpha — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:27:26 GMT

Hi All,

Having an issue with Converter Standalone 4.0.1 in cold clone mode. I have converted a few machines now with this version and everytime after the task starts the progress jumps quickly to 96% within a minute of starting and the estimated time remaining changes from a '-' to 3 mins. The mins change up and down between 2 - 5 mins but it obviously isn't correct as after 3 hours we are still waiting.

The process normally completes fine but, if you want to stay late to wait on the process finishing, it would be useful if it told you actually how long you would be waiting for, or a least a reasonable explanation.

Anybody getting the same or know a resolution,

Thanks,

Dan

999 GB Limit When Resizing.

emcclend — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:09:58 GMT

I have a W2K3 physical machine that I want to convert into virtual. It has 6 drives, however 1 of the drives is currently 1.6 TB (1677 GB). I created a new datastore 1.8 TB with 8 MB block size that the single large drive will go on. The other 5 drives will go on a different datastore. Everything is setup and ready to go, so I started up the standalone converter tool and have gone throught all of the prompts. I got to the part where you can resize the disk and change the target datastore. I but 5 drives on 1 datastore and the TB drive on the new datastore. However when I try to rezie it from 16677 GB (1.6 TB)to 1834 GB (1.8 TB, the max size) it tell me, "Please enter a size less than or equal to 999 GB". I thought the largest VMDK could be 2 TB or slightly less with 8 MB block size.

Am I doing something wrong? I simply want to increase the disk size from 1.6 TB to 1.8 TB and it will be the only drive on the datastore.

P2V XP

JohnnyBravo — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:21:09 GMT

I am having a hard time trying to P2V an XP machine into ESXi4.

The source has IDE disks and I have tried to chance the controller on the converter tool and also tried just leavibg it. The converter reports 100% and I can even configure the VM afterwards to install the tools etc using configure from the converter tool.

When the VM boots I get a SESSION3_INITIALIZATION FAILED

Any help with this would be very much appreciated.

Tahnks

Error on convert

ScottChapman — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:01:06 GMT

Not sure what the problem is here, but here are my logs:

Converter Enterprise download error

enigma26 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:15:15 GMT

VMWare Converter Enterprise plug-in is no longer enabled after VCenter upgrade from 2.5 to 4.

Instead it shows as an available plug-in and gives me a link to download and install.

When clicking the download and install link I get the following error msg:

Remote server returned an error (404) not found

Is there another way to download and install the plug-in?

Thanks

Vmware Converter 4.0.1 Standalone gets 97% Error: Failed to reconfigure the target virtual machine. Linux conversion P2V

wattb — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:57:44 GMT

I get 97% then it fails. I am converting Ubuntu 9.10 server. I will attach the logs. "GrubInstaller::InstallGrub: /usr/lib/vmware-converter/installGrub.sh failed with return code: 127, and message:
/vmware-updateGrub.sh: 38: grub: not found
Error running GRUB
Error running vmware-updateGrub.sh through chroot into /mnt/p2v-src-root

10/22/09 found out Ubuntu 9.10 uses Grub2 is this the issue and can it work with Grub2?

Let me know if you can help.

Converter Standalone 4.0.1 - SUSE 10 64-bit P2V fails at "Error: Failed to clone the volume mounted on '/'"

melori — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:40:10 GMT

I am using IP addresses only and a static IP for the VM helper which is on the same subnet as the source, target, and Converter server which is a VM on the Target ESX host. I can use WinSCP to connect via SFTP to the source machine and copy files to the Converter box. I can also ssh directly to the source machine from my converter box.

The exact message in the converter log is:

28 ~~2009-10-20 15:06:15.861 05600 verbose 'PropertyProvider'~~ RecordOp ADD: event29, task-5
28 ~~2009-10-20 15:06:15.861 05716 verbose 'task-5'~~ Converter Task GetEvent(taskID=task-5)
~~2009-10-20 15:06:15.861 05716 verbose 'Ufa.HTTPService'~~ HTTP Response: Complete (processed 976 bytes)
~~2009-10-20 15:06:15.861 05768 verbose 'Ufa.HTTPService'~~ User agent is 'VMware-client/4.0.0'
~~2009-10-20 15:06:15.861 05768 verbose 'Ufa.HTTPService'~~ HTTP Response: Client: NeedsContentLength: false UnderstandsChunking: true CanKeepAlive: true (PresetContentLength -1)
28 ~~2009-10-20 15:06:34.939 05600 verbose 'task-5'~~ updating on event (converter.event.UnixP2VVolumeCloneFailedEvent) {
28 dynamicType = <unset>,
28 key = 3,
28 chainId = 1,
28 type = "error",
28 createdTime = "2009-10-20T22:06:34.356319Z",
28 userName = "",
28 fullMessage = <unset>,
28 hostName = "10.141.227.24",
28 sourceMountPoint = "/",
28 reason = (converter.fault.HelperVmConnectionToSourceFault) {
28 dynamicType = <unset>,
28 faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null,
28 description = "No route to host",
28 hostName = "10.141.227.24",
28 msg = "

boot from SAN p2v

JohnnyBravo — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:44:48 GMT

doing some P2Vs and having problems with a blade that is booting from SAN. Its a SQL server so wanted to cold clone it. Loaded in the drivers for the HBAs but fails and the OS blue screens when I try to bring it up in ESX. I have to admit I have P2Ved a lot of things but never boot from SAN so was wondering if Im missing something?

There will be more boot from SAN machines to migrate in the future so was hoping to get it right at this point.

Thanks

Internal Error - Configuring System - Getting stuch at 96% / 97%

LeetSystems — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:29:40 GMT

I am running the VmWare converter on a Win 2000 x86 Server... trying to convert the image and load it directly to ESXi 4 Server with more than enough sufficient resources.. Each time the convert process takes hours (3 to 4) and gets stuck at 96% / 97% displaying the error - Internal Error - Configuring System... I tried various options, (de-selecting un-needing disks)(leaving one CPU and only increasing RAM) but always the same error.

Did not clearly understand the Diagnostic File, so if someone could let me know what is happening here, I would greatly appreciate.

Attached find the Diagnostic file

Newbie Help: Getting my demo drive ready

YYUNOS — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:15:41 GMT

Hi Team. Totally a non-IT centric person here thus my silly question(s) is hopefully answered.

I have a sales demo hdd with installed applications. This sales demo hdd is set up for Dell D630 only. My concern now is we need to set this sales demo hdd up to be used for our sales team, who unfortunately are all using a totally different laptop altogether thus pluggin this hdd into theirs will not work. What I am told is this:

download vm ware (which version? converter?)

create an image of that hdd (how?)

on the sales person laptop, he/she also needs to run vm ware server (correct?)

point that vm ware server to call upon the image of the demo hdd earlier (correct?)

Appreciate some kind help here to point me in the correct direction..... Thanks guys! Cheers!

Configure Machine failed :"SQL_FULL: database or disk is full"

monsterpots300 — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 08:47:45 GMT

Hi,
I have converted the local machine which has two drives, C (50% of 15GB full: Windows XP SP3) and D (30% of 60GB full, contains documents) into a VM on a third partition E (30% of 75GB full: contains only the converted VM file).

Having converted C/D drives I am now trying to prepare the VM as described in the help file installed with the Converter.

It gets to 98% and then says "FAILED: A general system error occurred: SQL_FULL: database or disk is full", which seems odd as there is loads of space in the E drive. The only other reference I have found to "SQL_FULL" is in a SQLLite-related posting (nothing to do with VMWare) but the posting was closed without much more info.

I am using Converter version 4.0.1-161434. Windows XP SP3, fully patched except still on IE6 (I want an IE6 image for website testing). Anti-virus on the VM and on the local machine (Microsoft Security Essentials). 2GHz chip , 1.5 GB RAM on machine.

I've tried to attach the logs to this post but can't, so I have made them available at
http://askdave.co.uk/CopyConverterDiagnostics20091018090819.zip
. In the logs there are logs relating to a few different attempts that I've had to try to convert this machine. This query only relates to the conversion attempt dated today (18/10). The conversion task number was 6 and I have tried to configure it twice (tasks 7 and 8).

Any ideas what I need to do ?

Thanks,
Dave.

Converting an Image that resides on the server using the client

ASIadmin — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:12:25 GMT

Folks,

So, I have a Converter server set up. I have a directory called "Images" that contains directories of appliances; a repository of images for conversion by my users. People have been using remote desktop to get to the server and do the conversions from there. This is silly and doesn't scale. What we want is for them to install the client and connect that way.

The issue is that there doesn't seem to be a convenient way to point the converter to images that are on the server itself. The best I've been able to do is

Turn Images into a Windows share on the server.
Open the share locally via Explorer, just so I can browse it.
Find the OVF file and copy the path out of the properties.
Use ~~file://\\localhost\Images\path\to\ovf\CopiedFilename.ovf~~

This strikes me as sub-optimal at best. Am I missing something? Or is it really this awkward to covert an appliance that is actaully on the server?

vmware vCenter converter standalone 4.0.1 freeze computer

maryzhang1 — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:51:41 GMT

Hi,

When I tried to convert a vmdk file (created from vmware workstation 5.5) to ovf files using the vmware vCenter converter standalone 4.0.1, it freeze my computer (XP SP2) at step 3 and have to reboot.

After reboot, tried again, and this time it freeze at step 1 when verifying the source file.

Anyone else has run into this issue too? Any clue and fix?

Thanks!

Mary

Convert 4.01: converter.agent.internal.fault.PlatformError

eijikikuchi — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:36:32 GMT

Hi,

I'm converting W2K SP4 but conversion fail at D drive, it seems passed C drive.

Converter manager is WinXP and VMWare server is ESXi 4.0.

I attached server and agent logs.

Somone help me.

Thank you.

Vmware Converter vCenter problem on windows XP

Winservice — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:07:17 GMT

I have the following problem, i just install my vmware Converter in Vcenter machine, with windows xp and 2gb ram.

when i try to do some job to import a Virtual machine or to export a virtual machine, from vcenter console, VMware vCenter Converter Service Stop, and my task abort.

logs dont' help me, windows event viewer none.

can anyone help me?

Conversion/reconfiguration of SuSE Linux 9.1 fails

ThePartitioner — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:39:56 GMT

vmware-converter-agent.log:

43 * /mnt/p2v-src-root/tmp/initrd.d3wYZe/bin/busybox -> /mnt/p2v-src-root/tmp/initrd.d3wYZe/bin/switch_root
43 * /mnt/p2v-src-root/tmp/initrd.d3wYZe/bin/busybox -> /mnt/p2v-src-root/tmp/initrd.d3wYZe/bin/umount
43 * /mnt/p2v-src-root/tmp/initrd.d3wYZe/bin/busybox -> /mnt/p2v-src-root/tmp/initrd.d3wYZe/bin/vi
43 20913 blocks
43 /usr/lib/vmware-converter/mkinitrd.sh: line 525: /mnt/p2v-src-root//(null)/: Is a directory
43 ERROR: gzip cpio image failed
43 ",
43 msg = "",
43 },
43 result = <unset>,
43 progress = 99,
43 estimatedTimeRemaining = <unset>,
43 transferRate = 24645,
43 queueTime = "2009-10-11T20:09:23.831859Z",
43 startTime = "2009-10-11T20:09:23.831859Z",
43 completeTime = "2009-10-11T20:21:54.423637Z",
43 eventChainId = 1,
43 vcTask = <unset>,
43 logBundleInfo = (converter.DiagnosticManager.TaskLogBundleInfo) null,
43 }

Filesystem on source is reiserFS.

Thanks for your help!

convertion p2v from old debian server

matteotdn — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:09:26 GMT

Hi, I tried to convert a debain server (kernel 2.4.22, I can't update it) using vmware converter 4.
Converter gave me this error:
"Unable to detect disks or volumes on the source machine. Please make sure that the source is a supported Linux distribution"
I know that this os is not supported but do anybody know if it it's possible virtualize this machine? how ca I do?
Thanks for any help... Matt

P2V migration to VM Server... to ESX4i

dpicone — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:02:47 GMT

I recently used Converter for the first time. All I can say is "EASY!"Love it.

The P2V process worked without a flaw. I converted the Guest OS, moved it to the latest version of VMWare Server, powered it on, ansered a couple of questions and Viola!

Recently I installed ESX4 and I'm trying to move the VM from VM Server to ESX4 but I get the following message.

Unable to open disk for SCSI device scsi0:0. Unsupported and/or invalid disk type 7. Did you forget to import the disk first? Unable to create virtual SCSI device for scsi0:0 <file location.vmdk> Module DevicePowerOn power on failed.

I presume it has something to do with the Virtual SCSI controller configuration. I reviewed the config. On the VM Server it was using a buslogic controller. When I recreate the VM machine I chose the buslogic parallel driver.
I eventually tried all three Virtual SCSI controller drivers but none of them worked. I get the same response.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to resolve this?

Isn't there a way to Import an existing VM instead of recreating it and connecting the Disk files?

Converter and software RAID (Linux)

vivizihosting — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:27:35 GMT

Hello,

I am using the converter to hot-clone physical machines to VPS's.

Some of these machines run software RAID. I know and understand that this is not supported by the Vmware converter.

Could someone please tell me what the best way is to downgrade the software raid to single disk REMOTELY?

Going to the datacenter and staying there is not an option...

So, how can I hot-downgrade to single disk, so the converter will run? A step by step guide would be very much appreciated by me and others, I'm sure

Thank you!

VMware vCenter Converter Standalone easy question

drkbeatz — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:02:09 GMT

Hi All,

If I use the following -> VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Product Download 4.0.1 is it possible for me to do the following without purchasing anything

1. Move a virtual multiple linux images which reside on esxi 3.5 to another esxi 3.5 server and then back gain

2. P2V a windows nt 4.0 server to esxi 3.5

thanks

converter v4.01 very slowwww

iainh667 — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:02:06 GMT

I'm trying to shrink the E drives of several Win2003 VM servers on the network so that they take up less space on the LUN (so a 200GB VMDK, would turn into a 70GB VMDK)

I'm using VMware Converter v4.01 (running on a VM) to copy/clone the VM across to a new location and mount the smaller VMDK back to the VM. The only problem is, that this process is unbelievably slow.

The copy is okay for the first 25%, but then the throughput drops down to nearly nothing (400KB/s). I've increased the spec of the migration VM, (2x CPU, 4 GB) but it hasn't made any difference.

I've ruled out the following:-

- Spec of the migration machine

I've tried another migration VM, it still has the same issues

Its not related to the time of day (I get the same results during morning/afternoon/night), so I can rule out backups etc

Its not a slow Network. I can copy files using FastSCP with the migration VM at a very reasonable speed

It takes exactly the same time to migrate if I prep the job direct to the ESX host as it does using virtualcenter

It doesn't appear to be related to the resource pool, (I've changed to a larger pool) or problems with the ESX host (tried other hosts)

I would normally use another method to carry out this task (e.g. mount another VMDK and clone using ghost etc), but the project is not allowed to spend any money on software.

any ideas?

P2V Convert Redhat Linux 5.3 Failed

MichaelTsang — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:12:10 GMT

I am trying to convert the physical Redhat 5.3 enterprise server machines using VM Converter Standalone edition 4.0.1; but everytime is is failed. Does anyone know what is happening?

I am attaching the converter log for reference.

P.S. I am not so familiar with Linux OS.

Thanks, Michael

VMware VCentre Converter Standalone freezes machine

leenux_tux — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 11:31:41 GMT

Hi,

Got three Windows 2003 Server based guests I am attempting to convert and store/run on a ESXi 4 server. Source is from Windows based host, VMware Workstation 6.5. When I run VMware Converter and select the machine I want to convert the software looks like it is working, however, hangs after a couple of minutes. Ebventually, the whole machine becomes unresponsive. The keyboard will not work, neither will the mouse. In the end I have to turn the laptop off and turn it back on again. I can't get to Taskmanager on the Windows machine to see what is going on, however, I am pretty sure the CPU is being hammered as the heat that is being generated where the ventilation is for the CPU is very high.

Have tried this with three VM guests and get the same issue each time. Is anyone else seeing this problem ?

Thanks in advance

Leenux_tux

Changing data to copy on linux partition

setit — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:48:58 GMT

I'm trying to convert a powered-on physical Linux machine running CentOS 5 to a VM on one of my esx 4 hosts. I'm using the Converter standalone. I specify the source and destination and get to View/Edit Options. I go to edit the "Data to Copy" section since I know my machine has partitions that are only ~5% full, but one partition will not let me change the target size. It will only let me maintain size. It's an extended partition formatted xfs, maybe the filesystem is the problem? Thanks for any help.

Converter standalone: Unable to connect to the network share

ajboydiii — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:06:26 GMT

I know this is a redundant post but I was not able to resolve my issue from the previous posts.

My environment is as follows;
A). Converter Standalone 4.0.1 build-161434 installed in virtual XP Pro environment on LAN on Domain X
B). Converter Standalone 4.0.1 build-161434 installed in physical Vista x64 environment on LAN on Workgroup Y
C). Windows 2003 standard (physical) located in DMZ on Domain Z.
D). Windows server 2000 (physical) located in DMZ on Domain X (Although this machine is no longer able to communicate with the domain since it was moved from the LAN to the DMZ).
E). Snap Appliance server 4100 in DMZ (local users) on Workgroup X
F). Samba share on ubuntu connected to Domain X
G). Windows 2003 share connected to Domain X

I have redundant components because I have tried a variety of combinations to virtualize a physical machine. I am choosing to prepare the image for VMWare Server 2.x.

Scenario 1: From the LAN, I was able to connect to C) using A) and save the image to E) successfully.

Scenario 2: From the LAN, I was able to connect to D) using A) but I received an Unable to connect to the network share when connecting to E). I used the same username and password from Scenario 1, which was the local administrator username and password on the E). I also tried server\administrator and workgroup\administrator

Scenario 3: From the LAN, I was able to connect to D) using A) but I received an Unable to connect to the network share when connecting to F). I used domain\administrator, domain\<my username> (domain admin acct), root, server\root, and domain\root.

Scenario 4: From the LAN, I was able to connect to D) using A) but I received an Unable to connect to teh network share when connecting with G. I used domain\administrator, domain\<my username>, server\administrator, administrator.

Scenario 5: From the LAN, I was able to connect to D) using B) but I received an Unable to connect to the network share when connecting with E). I used the same username and password from Scenario 1, which was the local administrator username and password on the E). I also tried server\administrator and workgroup\administrator

Scenario 6: From the LAN, I was able to connect to D) using B) but I received an Unable to connect to the network share when connecting with F). I used domain\administrator, domain\<my username> (domain admin acct), root, server\root, and domain\root.

Scenario 7: From the LAN, I was able to connect to D) using B) but I received an Unable to connect to the network share when connecting with G). I used domain\administrator, domain\<my username>, server\administrator, administrator.

I am really confused that it worked for Scenario 1. In the next P2V pass, the only thing which changed was the source. I have rebooted the E) and A) but this did not help. I am sure that it is something simple. Can anyone provide some assistance?

Converter not working for Linux source?

vivizihosting — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:01:17 GMT

Hello

I downloaded the converter from the website and I want to convert a few linux (mainly Redhat/Fedora based) machines to ESX 4.0.

However, I keep running in to the same problem. The host DOES have root access allowed, but the converter keeps complaining "Unable to query the live Linux source machine".

What's wrong and what can I do?

Unable to find the system volume, reconfiguration is not possible

bwalling — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:26:50 GMT

I see that this message occurs frequently in the forums, and I've read and tried a number of the solutions to no avail. I have a Windows XP machine that had previously had Windows 7 beta installed as dual boot option using an additional drive. I have used Windows 7 to restore the Windows XP MBR and removed the dual boot configuration. I have checked in GParted and seen that the Windows XP drive is flagged as the boot drive. Windows XP boots directly without a boot loader menu being presented. The Windows 7 drive has been removed from XP in disk administrator, so it is no longer assigned a drive letter (previously, it was E:).

So, I have Windows XP on C: (Disk 0), booting directly without a boot loader from a drive that is marked as the boot drive. I am still getting the unable to find system volume message. I have tried converting this machine to an ESX server as well as to a disk file on a network share.

I am using converter standalone to do this, if that is of any consequence.

Conversion of (some) Jumpbox VM's to ESXi 4.0 fails under Win but Linux OK

ChrisTH — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:52:12 GMT

As per the title...

So far I've successfully converted 1 out of 3 Jumpbox VM's using Windows (I tried XP & Win7RC). Both fail with a conversion status: FAILED: Unable to connect to the virtual disk and in the 'Log Highlights' pane it shows: Error: Failed to clone disk 1 on virtual machine ....

My workaround is to use the Linux version of the converter using the exact same downloaded Jumpbox VM files from within a VM on ESXi4.0 and in each case it works fine. For completeness, the Win7RC attempt was also from a VM on the ESXi4.0 infrastructure, whereas the XP attempt was from a separate, physical PC.

Seems like there's some issue with the Win version possibly?

The converter versions used on both platforms were 4.0.1, and the Jumpboxes that didn't work with Windows were: Joomla 1.5 and Drupal 1.1.15.

This is more a heads up for the VMWare developers than a showstopping problem for me.

Cheers,
Chris.

VM Consolidation : Unable to detect machines in different IP Segments

ashoc123 — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 09:02:21 GMT

Dear All,
I have plans for migrating a number of physical machines varying in different IP Segments and I do have firewell between them.
I tried using Consolidation feature in VM Ent. Edition, and I am able to detect all machines in the same IP Segment as the Data Collector Server in but not in other segments. Can anyone advise me what exactly ports are required to at least detect machines from different domains.
I have opened ports 135-139 & 445 but that is for WMI, Perfmon, Remote Registry.

Hope to hear from anyone.

Thanks in advance.

Regards
Siddharth Bijlani

VMware vCenter Converter 3.0.2 Update 1 for Linux

afruto — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:25:38 GMT

Where in VMware's name is the download link for this package, can someone please help. It keeps sending me to the exe file not the tar files.

Thanks in Advance

Converter

ron11 — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:17:04 GMT

Trying to make a virtual machine from a local powered on Windows XP SP3 system. It goes throught the entire process and fails at the end with "system Volume" issues and says "reconfiguration has failed".

New VM seems to be created in its entirety but will not make it through boot process and locks up. I have tried 4 times today and thought it may be sysprep related but I followed those instructions and it did not

seem to help. Any suggestions? Please helpp???

failed to convert Phyical machine

gzchenhh — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:53:32 GMT

My physical machine is a dell 2950 with 2X73GB DISK. I have the following log:

unable to import virtual machines created with vcb into vcentre 4

friedchicken — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:42:02 GMT

Hi All,

i've taken vcb backups of a number of machines from a vcenter 2.5/esx3.5 setup and i'm trying to import them into a completely different vsphere 4 environment (its for a disaster recovery scenario).

i'm using the import wizard from within the vcenter client. it goes as far as the 'supply unc path and username/password' screen. it then hangs with: retrieving operating system information... with the little spinning wheel

if you look in the convertor logs you get as per below

any ideas anyone?

many thanks in advance.

#3] ~~2009-09-22 20:06:04.822 'App' 2992 info~~ diskSet,291 OS resides on partition 1 , disk path \\vmcenter\vmclones\Carrillion-PC\scsi0-0-0-Carrillion PC.vmdk
3 ~~2009-09-22 20:06:04.822 'App' 2992 verbose~~ disposable,122 object explicitly disposed: fileRegistry={virtVol={computer={f48bbe0f768e5cb219a5dcd7d1e1fc84e7e1befa},0}},WINDOWS\system32\config\System
~~2009-09-22 20:06:07.134 'App' 2992 error~~

Exception: Non-optional data field is unset: object, vim.fault.NoPermission
~~2009-09-22 20:06:07.134 'App' 2992 error~~ Backtrace:
backtrace00 eip 0x100ec846 ?GenerateCoreDump@System@Vmacore@@YAXXZ
backtrace01 eip 0x10036b0a ?CreateBacktrace@SystemFactoryImpl@System@Vmacore@@UAEXAAV?$Ref@VBacktrace@System@Vmacore@@@3@@Z
backtrace02 eip 0x1000ffae ??0Throwable@Vmacore@@QAE@ABV?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@@Z
backtrace03 eip 0x004314e9 ?_Unregistered@StubImpl@Vmomi@@UAEXXZ
backtrace04 eip 0x004316e8 ?_Unregistered@StubImpl@Vmomi@@UAEXXZ
backtrace05 eip 0x0043711e ?GetArrayType@TypeImpl@Vmomi@@UAEPAVArrayType@2@XZ
backtrace06 eip 0x00479a54 ?InitLocale@Vmomi@@YAXABV?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@@Z
backtrace07 eip 0x0047a23e ?InitLocale@Vmomi@@YAXABV?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@@Z
backtrace08 eip 0x0047a32e ?InitLocale@Vmomi@@YAXABV?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@@Z
backtrace09 eip 0x0047a3c7 ?CloneAny@Vmomi@@YAXPAVAny@1@AAV?$Ref@VAny@Vmomi@@@Vmacore@@_N@Z
backtrace10 eip 0x021a5989 (no symbol)
backtrace11 eip 0x021a7687 (no symbol)
backtrace12 eip 0x0044c74e ??1ManagedObjectImpl@Vmomi@@UAE@XZ
backtrace13 eip 0x0044d1dd ??1ForceRootOnStack@Vmomi@@QAE@XZ
backtrace14 eip 0x0044d420 ??1ForceRootOnStack@Vmomi@@QAE@XZ
backtrace15 eip 0x0044da36 ??1ForceRootOnStack@Vmomi@@QAE@XZ
backtrace16 eip 0x100f430a ?IsEnlisted@System@Vmacore@@YA_NXZ
backtrace17 eip 0x100f4c5c ?IsEnlisted@System@Vmacore@@YA_NXZ
backtrace18 eip 0x100f054e ?ThisThreadExists@System@Vmacore@@YA_NXZ
backtrace19 eip 0x7c349565 _endthreadex
backtrace20 eip 0x77e66063 GetModuleFileNameA

P to V conversion results in an annoying Black Box that tracks around with the mouse movement

eniac26 — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:01:47 GMT

Has anyone see this before while controlling a VM via the VC Console. VM Tools is installed and I have uninstalled and reinstalled the tools again but this black box is still there. I have also removed and reinstalled the mouse via Device Manager. This is happening on all the Windows 2003 boxes I have imported.

Thanks

HelpMePlease: VMWare Player will not even play a VMWare-built Appliance

MuchObliged — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:51:48 GMT

Please help. So far I've had nothing but frustration with VMWare in terms of making a VM appliance that will run in VMWare Player. Everything I'm doing is being done with VMWare products only, no crossover.

With VMWare: I downloaded VMWare server. It installed fine. I built a VM. Installed XPSP2 from a CD. Just a plain vanilla install and stopped there. The VM (as a VMX file) works fine within the VMWare server console. I can boot the OS, install stuff in the VM, etc. So then I downloaded and used VMWare Converter to create an appliance (.OVA file type), hoping to port it to another physical machine. On two different machines upon which I installed VMWare Player, my VM in OVA format will simply not run, even though Player claims to be compatible and offers OVA as an openable file type. When I try to start the VM, VMWare Player starts to load the VM then just hangs with the VMWare logo showing in the what should be the VM window.

I've tried both the latest (Aug) and previous (April) versions of VMWare Player releases.

Sample error messages I can find, clipped from a long log file say, occurring in a sequence just as shown below:
{snip...}
{#8} {2009-09-21 01:38:12.375 'App' 1828 error} {ovfImportSource,314} Ovf file could not be parsed
{#8} {2009-09-21 01:38:12.375 'App' 1828 info} {ufaUtils,697} Cleaning up temp directory C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\vmware-temp\vmware-xxxxxx-1003\ova-dir.0 ...
{#8} {2009-09-21 01:38:12.375 'App' 1828 error} {imageProcessingTaskImpl,552} VmiQuerySourceInfoTask::task{7}: Image processing task has failed with MethodFault::Exception: sysimage.fault.IncompatibilityFault
{#8} {2009-09-21 01:38:12.375 'App' 1828 verbose} {imageProcessingTaskImpl,154} VmiQuerySourceInfoTask::task{7}: SetState to error
{...snip}

.IncompatibilityFault? Why? It's all done with the latest VMWare tools. Any ideas much appreciated. Thank you!

P2V results in Physical box blue screening after 95%

Eire09 — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:51:07 GMT

Hi,
I am trying to do a P2V conversion of a Windows 2003 web server.

After 95% the physical server blue screens. Has anyone experienced issues like this before? This server is only a web server & is not running any database applications.

Any suggestions on a workaround?

Thanks guys,

Pedro

Cannot convert Red Hat Linux

george78 — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:10:43 GMT

Hi All

We are trying to convert a Red hat Linux Enterprise Server version 5.3 and kernel 2.6.18 with converter standalone.

When we apply the remote ip address and root credentials a message pops up saying that either the username or password are incorrect or there is not remote root ssh access.

We have verified with a Linux expert that both cases are not an issue since he verified that everything is ok.

Anybody knows what the problem might be please?

Thanks

George

Blue screen and continuous reboot

iMedic — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:31:22 GMT

Hi,

I have successfully run Converter 4 on the same WinXP machine several times without an apparent issue in the conversion process itself. The files were stored on a USB drive and brought to the Mac. Fusion seemed to successfully create a VM but when the VM boots, it goes to the Windows splash screen momentarily and then Windows presents a "Blue screen" but not BSOD. It says "A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer...."

The machine reboots automatically and stays in this loop. I have tried Safe mode but the same behavior continues.

I have read all the docs and posts but can find no resolution. Everything seems to work fine during conversion. The source machine is fine. Problems arise when the VM tries to boot.

Suggestions please?

Thank you

Cant convert any servers

huwy — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:11:26 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to convert a number of dell poweredge 2850 servers but they are all failing with the error message:

"Fatal error occurred. The most common reason for this is loss of network connection. The wizard will now be closed. Please check your network connection and try again."

This happens even if I try to convert the local machine.

Can anyone help me here as I'm stumped!

I've attached the converter log file.

Cheers,

how long does it take?

TomT42 — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:05:38 GMT

Hello.

I installed the latest version of converter (4.01) to make a virtual machine for Workstation 6.5.3 for Linux. My physical machine is a laptop with Windows XP Pro SP3, and it has three partitions. Total size is around 80GB.

The converter could create files successfully in around one hour, but when I tried to open the virtual machine by VMWare Player or VMWare Workstation, it takes forever.

On both Player and Workstation, I could see Windows XP' logo at the start up, but it goes to black screen. The hard drive icon in the player and workstation looks blinking, but it dose not change for several hours. (it is still running beside of me now).

I am concerning if it is normal because this was a initial start up by the player, or if it was failed.

Of course, when I started the converter, I chose right version (for 6.5). I did not turn off services in the wizard. Was it a problem?

I converted twice, but both show a same result.

If you have any advices or experience converting working machine, please let me know.

Thank you very much.

Conversion MS Win2000 Server with SCSI to virtual

FredFlinstone1 — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:15:23 GMT

Hi friends,

I tried to convert my physical server, running on Microsoft Windows 2000 Server with SCSI hard disk controller to virtual machine in VMware Server 2, running on host machine (running on MS Windows XP Professional).

My advance was following:

1.) installation VMware vCenter Converter Standalone (ver.4.0.1-161434) on physical machine "Win2KServer" (this server has two disk partitions - C: and D:. System and all programs and services are installed and located on partition C:, on D: are located some data (not important in this case), and this server has SCSI controller)

2.) create virtual machine from physical machine "Win2KServer" only C: partition (setting was following: Select source type: Powered-on machine / This local machine; Select destination type: VMware workstation or other VMware virtual machine; Select VMware product: VMware Server 2.x; Location for the virtual machine: D:\SomeDirectory)

3.) was created two files: Win2KServer.vmx, Win2KServer.vmdk, on location D:\SomeDirectory

4.) copy these files to physical machine "WinXP" to directory C:\Virtual Machine, where are other virtual machine located. On machine "WinXP" running VMware Server 2 (there are running some virtual machine successfully - Ubuntu, PCLinuxOS)

5.) in "VMware Infrastructure Web Access" I add through "Add virtual machine to inventory" new machine "Win2KServer", and start it through console. On first take was displayed some warning message (msg.noAutodetectBackingQuestion:Cannot connect virtual device parallel0/serial1/floppy0. No corresponding device is available on the host. Would you like an attempt to be made to connect this virtual device every time you power on the virtual machine?) - my answer was No. On other take these warning doesn't exist.

6.) virtual machine started successfully. In VMware remote console run OS Microsoft Windows 2000 Server. I try run (in remote console) "Windows Explorer". On exit of this explorer virtual machine shutdown

7.) every other start of this virtual ends on Windows blue death screen (in VMware remote console) and I can start/stop/restart this virtual machine (in "VMware Infrastructure Web Access" (please see attached image Fyzicky_na_virtualny_02.png)), but if I try run "VMware remote console" every advance ends on death blue screen (please see attached image Fyzicky_na_virtualny_03.png).

The same situation is if I reset (through menu "VMware remote console - Troubleshoot - Reset") this machine (please see attached images Fyzicky_na_virtualny_04.png -> Fyzicky_na_virtualny_05.png -> Fyzicky_na_virtualny_03.png)

My question is:

Where is problem? Can be reason that original machine "Win2KServer" has SCSI controller, but host machine hasn't it?

thanks for all advice

Workstation conversion wizard equivalent to what Converter version?

jokke — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:58:21 GMT

I just discovered that it is possible to use the conversion wizard in workstation as a coldcloning tool.

Running workstation 6.5.3 from a windows preinstallation environment with some tweaks, I was able to coldclone a server 2008.

Now what converter version is this 6.5.3 wizard equivalent to?

Joakim

Converting Vmware server 2 VM: Converter fails at 'Retrieving source machine information'

E_rulez — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 09:28:11 GMT

VMware vCenter Converter Standalone, v. 4.0.1, build-161434

Hello,

I try to convert my Debian VM (with 2 disks) from VMware server 2.0.1 to latest ESXi 4.0.0, but Converter just sits there showing 'Retrieving source machine information...'

I tried copying this VM directly to ESXi, but it fails to start saying something about 'wrong disk version 7'

Then I tried creating a new VM in VMWare server and adding vmdk disks from my Debian VM, trying to convert - same problem.

I created new vmdk disks, copied information from old ones - same problem - "hangs" on importing.

I don't know what to try. All other VMs from that VMWare server converted without any problems.

I attach 3 logs of separate tries to convert this VM.

Converter Standalone and Windows 2008 R2

Webio — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:03:41 GMT

Hello,

can someone tell me if Converter Standalone supports Windows 2008 R2 (migrating Windows which is turned on)? If it's not then when we could expect to be supported?

Thanks

VMWare converter: Error Failed to clone volume 'C:'

vijayphalgun — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:36:50 GMT

Hi,

I have a windows server 2008 vm image on a esxi 3.5 server.

I am moving this image to another esxi server which is on the same subnet using VMWare converter 4.0.

But I am getting "Error Failed to clone volume 'C:'"all the times.

I tried all options like "select volumes to copy","copy all disks and maintain layout" etc on the destination edit options but none of them worked and getting the same error.

Please find the vmware converter logs attached.

Urgent please help.Thanks in advance.

Note: I read lot of discussion forms ,tried almost everything but still the same error.

Vijay

SBS2008 converter

adrianromano — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:56:25 GMT

Hi,
I have 2 esxi 4.0 servers, one of which has a Windows 2008 SBS Virtual Machine. I need to move this virtual machine from one machine to another. I did this using the vmware converter utility. The transfer worked fine, however, when I start the SBS 2008 on the 2nd ESXi, it says that the SBS2008 has an invalid license. I obviously cannot do anything to the server. Could you please tell me why this has happened?

Thanks

Error: Reconfiguration Failed

LRCasey — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:01:51 GMT

My system: Dual boot - Vista Ultimate 64bit on 1st drive and Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit RTM on 2nd drive

What I am trying to do: Convert the Vista Ultimate system to a VM

What I have done so far:

Initially I was trying to use VMWare Workstation to create a copy of the system. However, even when running VMWare Workstation as Admin, the process would fail at about 3% due to I believe VSnap not having admin rights (my best guess by reviewing log files). I reinstalled VMWare workstation as Admin and reran the conversion with the same result. Banged head into wall.
Next attempts: I installed VMWare Converter Standalone
1. Failure at 95% with the error message "Error: Reconfiguration failed." and FAILED: Unable to find the system volume, reconfiguration is not possible." (log's attached)
  1. I researched the error message and read that you can't convert dual boot systems to VM
  2. Downloaded EasyBCD software and removed Windows 7 from my Bootloader
  3. Rebooted and confirmed that system loads straight into Vista
2. Reran Converter and failed at 95% again with error message "Error: Reconfiguration failed." and "FAILED: A general system error occurred:
  InternalError" (log's attached) Again banged head into wall.

Any help deciphering the attached logs and providing suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Ultimately I would like to create a VM of my old Vista system and then make my system a single boot system using my Windows 7 install.

Converter Standalone V 4.0.1 build 161434

Thank you.

-Larry

Anybody familiar with Novell's platespin Migrate?

mschddny — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:49:41 GMT

I tried standalone converter and enterprise converter to virtualize a windows 2000 sp4 server with no luck. I have a ticket open with vmware but I don't think they are going to be able to help.

So I tried Platespin and I got a virtual image. But it stopped at 86% and froze my physical server. This does not give a warm and fuzzy feeling about platespin.
Problem is this was created with a temporary license which will expire in 2 days.

So I revirtualized the image with enterprise converter and that worked. Will that override the platespin license?

Installing vCenter Converter Standalone on Windows 2000

Omnima — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 15:03:58 GMT

When installing Converter 4.01 on Windows 2000 sp4 an installer message such as:

+'A previous installation+/+reboot is pending'+

might be displayed and the installation is aborted.

To workaround this start cmd.exe as local system and restart the installer from this command line.

Use 'at xx:xx /interactive cmd.exe' to get cmd to start running as Local system.

Converter with SBS2003?

sbarnhart — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:08:32 GMT

I have a client with an aging infrastructure looking for an upgrade. They currently run three servers, SBS2003, Win2k03 and Win2k Terminal Server. The hardware is working, reasonable midrange HP rackmount, but is all out of warranty (the Win2k TS of course being gun range material). The SBS install is stable with no obvious glitches that seem to haunt SBS installs later in life. The controller at this company is new and not exactly computer savvy and would probably fire us if she got the upgrade quote we'd normally recommend for clients like this -- ESXi hosting SBS2008 and either 2008 server or Win2k03 for their other systems. SBS to SBS upgrades are time consuming and the hardware savings from ESXi won't even register for them.

The radical thought has been put forward to pitch a new ESXi server and P2V the SBS server and the Win2k3 server, with a new server build and licensing for just the Win2k terminal server.

I've had generally good luck with the standalone converter -- I've done a couple of dozen boxes of varying degrees of quality and age and managed to get good running VMs, but something about P2Ving SBS2003 scares me. We have a few clients running SBS2008 on ESXi3 without any issues; we'd like to upgrade them to ESXi4 but are waiting for update 1 to fix the boot volume issues.

Converter times out (samba errors?)

tammcl — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:39:11 GMT

Hi,

I have installed the vmware converter 4.0.1 on a linux host.

When I try to convert a live win2k sp4 box, it hangs at installing the agent.

The win2k client does not have a firewall and has file sharing turned off.

the only thing I can see in the server log files relates to samba but I am not sure why it is trying to load a samba config.

2 ~~2009-08-26 17:15:22.250 F3E8AB00 info 'App'~~ SysCommand invoking command /usr/lib/vmware-vcenter-converter-standalone/bin/smbclient
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxxADMIN$ -W WORKGROUP -U Administrator -q -c get "vmware-converter-install-IKPWBOPCEGYVOEJM\vmsystemp.txt" "/tmp/vmware-temp/vmware-root/vmsystemp.txt.RCBNESIGYYXWEFEF"^M
2 ~~2009-08-26 17:15:22.344 F3E8AB00 info 'App'~~ SambaFileCopyMgr smbclient output:^M
2 params.c:OpenConfFile() - Unable to open configuration file "/usr/lib/smb.conf":^M
2 No such file or directory^M
2 /usr/lib/vmware-vcenter-converter-standalone/bin/smbclient: Can't load /usr/lib/smb.conf - run testparm to debug it^M
2 session request to 10.191.16.41 failed (Called name not present)^M
2 session request to 10 failed (Called name not present)^M
2 session request to *SMBSERVER failed (Not listening on called name)^M
2 ^M
2 ~~2009-08-26 17:15:22.344 F3E8AB00 info 'App'~~ SambaFileCopyMgr smbclient return value is 1^M
2 ~~2009-08-26 17:15:22.345 F3E8AB00 error 'App'~~ CopyFileFromRemote failed with SambaExec error smbclient utility failed to copy file^M

However, when I enter details for a Linux client, the host information is retrieved.

Any ideas?

Tam

P2V fails at 1%, every time

jvadmins — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:17:14 GMT

I have searched through these forums time and time again, but have been unable to find an answer to our problem. I've looked through the error logs, but I only understand half of what it's saying, and they are so verbose, I can't make heads or tails of it.

I have vCenter Converter Standalone 4.0.1, latest build, installed on Windows XP. I'm trying to convert a remote Windows 2003 R2 server to an ESX server, and it fails at 1% every time with the error "Failed to clone volume 'C:'." I have made 2 changes to the options on the machine: reducing the size of the disks and reducing the number of NICs. The size of the disks is very important as I only have 500GB free on my VMWare server and one of the arrays on the physical server is 546GB (less 100GB being used).

I've attached the logs and am hoping somebody can help us out. Thanks.

Getting error P2Ving a Windows 2000 Citrix Server

GJSchulze — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:17:44 GMT

ESX 3.5, Virtual Center 2.5 build 119598; Converter 4.0.2

Source Server is a Dell PowerEdge 1550/1266 Running Windows Server 2000 SP4. Citrix Presentation Server 3.0

Log file:

~~2009-08-25 16:26:27.546 'App' 624 verbose~~ imageProcessingTaskWrapper,749 Got an update from UfaSysReconfig::task{1}::task{11}
2 j49 ~~2009-08-25 16:26:27.546 'App' 2340 verbose~~ imageProcessingTaskWrapper,515 Cleaning up remote task UfaSysReconfig::task{1}::task{11}
2 j49 ~~2009-08-25 16:26:27.546 'App' 2200 verbose~~ imageProcessingTaskWrapper,886 Remote task UfaSysReconfig::task{1}::task{11} completed
2 j49 ~~2009-08-25 16:26:27.546 'App' 2340 verbose~~ imageProcessingTaskWrapper,1201 Disposing task wrapper for task UfaSysReconfig::task{1}::task{11}
2 j49 ~~2009-08-25 16:26:27.546 'App' 624 verbose~~ disposable,122 object explicitly disposed: UfaSysReconfig::task{1}::task{11}
2 j49 ~~2009-08-25 16:26:27.546 'App' 624 verbose~~ computerProxy,94 Debug
2 j49 ~~2009-08-25 16:26:27.546 'App' 624 verbose~~ computerProxy,120 Debug
2 j49 ~~2009-08-25 16:26:27.546 'App' 624 verbose~~ volumeProxy,73 Debug
2 j49 ~~2009-08-25 16:26:27.546 'App' 624 info~~ ufaClientConnection,136 Info
2 j49 ~~2009-08-25 16:26:27.546 'App' 624 verbose~~ imageProcessingTaskImpl,123 UfaSysReconfig::task{1}::task{11} being destroyed
2 j49 ~~2009-08-25 16:26:27.546 'App' 2340 error~~ imageProcessingTaskStep,423 VmiReconfigTask::task{10} step "Reconfigure VM" failed
2 j49 ~~2009-08-25 16:26:27.546 'App' 2340 verbose~~ imageProcessingTaskWrapper,1117 Reporting image processing task failure for task UfaSysReconfig::task{1}::task{11}
2 j49 ~~2009-08-25 16:26:27.546 'App' 2340 error~~ imageProcessingTaskWrapper,1124 ImageProcessingTask FAILED. Fault name: sysimage.fault.PlatformError
2 j49 ~~2009-08-25 16:26:27.562 'App' 1552 verbose~~ disposable,122 object explicitly disposed: computer={e715f3c2b18413ffee96d2511b5080fda31390c2}
2 j49 ~~2009-08-25 16:26:27.562 'App' 1552 verbose~~ diskSet,114 Cleaning up computer's child objects
2 j49 ~~2009-08-25 16:26:27.562 'App' 1552 verbose~~ diskSet,130 Unregistring volume id=virtVol={computer={e715f3c2b18413ffee96d2511b5080fda31390c2},0}
2 j49 ~~2009-08-25 16:26:28.734 'App' 1552 verbose~~ diskSet,130 Unregistring volume id=virtVol={computer={e715f3c2b18413ffee96d2511b5080fda31390c2},1}
2 j49 ~~2009-08-25 16:26:28.734 'App' 1552 verbose~~ diskSet,140 Unregistring disk id=disk={584f45cd918e2736f33dcb667b258e376c19cc0c}
2 j49 ~~2009-08-25 16:26:28.734 'App' 1552 verbose~~ diskSet,140 Unregistring disk id=disk={54a8b5e0fb1d3b3c9ade648469918a95e3ad442d}
2 j49 ~~2009-08-25 16:26:28.750 'App' 2340 info~~ imageProcessingTaskStep,194 VmiReconfigTask::task{10} step "Reconfigure VM" destroyed
2 j49 ~~2009-08-25 16:26:28.750 'App' 2340 error~~ imageProcessingTaskImpl,556 VmiReconfigTask::task{10}: Image processing task has failed with PlatformError fault: (1450) Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service.
2 j49
2 j49 ~~2009-08-25 16:26:28.750 'App' 2340 verbose~~ imageProcessingTaskImpl,154 VmiReconfigTask::task{10}: SetState to error
2 j49 ~~2009-08-25 16:26:28.781 'App' 1552 verbose~~ disposable,122 object explicitly disposed: VmiReconfigTask::task{10}
2 j49 ~~2009-08-25 16:26:28.781 'App' 1552 verbose~~ imageProcessingTaskImpl,123 VmiReconfigTask::task{10} being destroyed
2 j49 ~~2009-08-25 16:26:28.812 'App' 1108 info~~ Stopped impersonating in session C0244FB1-DF77-484A-AE4A-323730051126
~~2009-08-25 16:26:28.843 'App' 1108 verbose~~ CloseSession called for session id=C0244FB1-DF77-484A-AE4A-323730051126
~~2009-08-25 16:26:28.843 'VmdbAdapter' 1108 verbose~~ Removed vmdb connection /db/connection/#2/
~~2009-08-25 16:59:14.015 'Ufa' 1108 info~~ Plugin stopped
~~2009-08-25 16:59:14.015 'App' 1108 info~~ plugin,135 UfaClientPlugin WaitStop
~~2009-08-25 16:59:14.015 'App' 1108 info~~ plugin,147 UfaSlavePlugin WaitStop
~~2009-08-25 16:59:14.015 'App' 1108 info~~ plugin,193 SysMigrationPlugin WaitStop
~~2009-08-25 16:59:14.015 'App' 1108 info~~ plugin,134 SysReconfigPlugin WaitStop
~~2009-08-25 16:59:14.015 'App' 1108 info~~ plugin,142 VMImporterPlugin WaitStop
~~2009-08-25 16:59:14.015 'VmdbSvc' 1108 verbose~~ Shutting down VMDB service...
~~2009-08-25 16:59:14.015 'VmdbSvc' 1108 verbose~~ Unregistering callback...
~~2009-08-25 16:59:14.015 'VmdbSvc' 1108 verbose~~ ...done

Now, I've read the posts concerning "Image processing task has failed with PlatformError fault: (1450) Insufficient system resources." They all say to increase maximum registry size, either by 20MB or to double it. The registry size on this server is 40MB and the max size was already 300 MB. Increasing it didn't work. I tried the P2V twice.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Getting Blank screen after p2v convertion

madviz — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:58:21 GMT

Dear all,
I have a Windows 2003 standard edition running on one physical box with service pack1. yesterday i migrate that machine into Virtual Infrastructure( vSphere4). migration has been succesfully complete, but if i am trying to power it on i can able to see only blank screen.

Could you please help me in this process. am attaching the log file and as well as the .vmx file. let me know if you need any more information.

Madviz

Failed to clone the volume mounted on '/' from <source>

ahachenberg — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:58:07 GMT

I'm having a problem with a P2V that fails at 3% with the error code "Failed to clone the volume mounted on '/' from server.domain.tld"
After applying the DNS suffix to the helper configuration I was able to
get to 4% but then the same error occured. Did i do something else wrong? I
tried setting up the P2V after applying the DNS suffix fix with source
information as just the DNS name, no suffix and then the FQDN, and even
the IP. all fail.

my source machine is SLES 9. if that makes any difference?

attached log

PS. by request i made this a new post. I originally posted this as a response to this thread:http://communities.vmware.com/message/1341411#1341411

Help to connect to vCenter Converter Server under Linux from WinXP

a622572 — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:15:05 GMT

Hi, all!
I have a strange problem.
vCenter client under winxXP can't connect to the vCenter Server under Linux (ESX 3.0 Server).
I have read manuals but i don't understand why.
Does anybody has same problems? Share experience, please help.
I attach some scr.

Best regard,
Andrey Nechaev

Unable to determine operating system

almondcookie — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:59:42 GMT

I am trying to convert a Win2K Sp4 to a VMWare image with VMWare converter 3.0.3 build 89816. Unfortunately, I am running into the error: unable to determine operating system (picture attached) after selecting "this machine". I did read through a lot of threads and did what others do, with no luck As such, I am attaching the log files and boot.ini. Can someone please help or advise how to resolve such error. Thank you in advance.

Restore from backup?

fpefpe2 — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 22:08:10 GMT

Greetings --

Trying to "clone" an existing win/2k system has lead to all sorts of
problems.

First, after installing converter (v4) and doing a hot clone, the
system died with a blue screen. I could not find a posting in the forums
of this happening, so I then

(Second) tried to clone the system from a ghost (v9) backup. That failed
too, converter could not figure out that the (ghost) backup was a win/2k
system. The suggestion is that the boot.ini was to complex for converter
to parse.

So, (third) I tried to "restore" the image from the ghost backup.

I was able to restore the disk backups. I knew there would be a "driver"
issue when the os started, so I first ran converter to "configure" the
system. I am not sure what it did, but it ran for about 30 seconds and was
done.

When I started the system, it got to the splash screen and then blue
screened.

Would it be possible to boot the win/2k install cd and fix it from there?

Where is win/98 when you need it

Thanks

Frank

schedualed import fails to overwrite

ephillipsme — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:43:22 GMT

I am trouble shooting for a client a system where they are using the schedule tasks in convertor to backup several physical server to vm's. These tasks have been working up until recently. The tasks are set up to import the vm and overwrite the existing vm. the existing vm is powered down and used as a dr or test copy only. The convertor created a vm-temp-vm directory and fails with the errors below when it tries to rename the vm.

~~2009-08-21 13:58:49.210 'App' 6132 error~~ RenameVM task failed (vim.fault.FileNotFound): A file was not found.

~~2009-08-21 13:58:49.210 'App' 3024 error~~ vmiImportTask,1376 VmiImportTask::RenameToTargetVM: An error happend while renaming the target VM:Target

Atfer a P2V concersion we get 'cannot find the file ID 2 on device' error when trying to restore a dB

jyvesd — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:28:04 GMT

We did a P2V conversion of a SQL server. Everything went fine and the application seems to work properly but now when we try to restore a back-up we gat the following error message

Microsoft SQL-DMO (ODBC SQLState: 42000)
'cannot find the file ID 2 on device RESTORE DATABASE is terminating abnormally'

Did someone experience this error after a P2V (We did test on the physical source server and there everything work fine)?

thx

P2V VM Poor Performance

KGoch — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:08:49 GMT

I recently did a P2V converion on a server. However now the VM is running terribly slow, however according to the performance graphs its barely using any CPU and Memory despite being given 2 CPUs and 4GB of RAM. Checking the VM itself (task manager), doesnt show it doing anything major, other than general default functions. I havent the slightest idea whats going on. Anydoby encounter this before?

vCenter Converter service failing

mcmcomput — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:29:28 GMT

I am having problems converting a Dell Power Edge 2800 Server w/ Win 2k3 & SP2. Its a pretty clean box with just windows and Lotus Notes 4.6.

What i notice happening is the VMware vCenter Converter Agent service stops when I try to start the conversion.

*The error i get is: *" A general system error occured: Remote server closed connection after 0 response bytes read. "

Below is what I got out of the logs.

Section for VMware vCenter Converter Standalone, pid=3368, version=4.0.1, build=build-161434, option=Release
~~2009-08-19 11:02:34.688 03312 info 'App'~~ Current working directory: C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware vCenter Converter Standalone
~~2009-08-19 11:02:34.688 03312 info 'Libs'~~ HOSTINFO: Seeing Intel CPU, numCoresPerCPU 1 numThreadsPerCore 2.
~~2009-08-19 11:02:34.688 03312 info 'Libs'~~ HOSTINFO: This machine has 2 physical CPUS, 2 total cores, and 4 logical CPUs.
~~2009-08-19 11:02:34.688 03312 verbose 'ThreadPool'~~ TaskMax=10, IoMin=1, IoMax=21
~~2009-08-19 11:02:34.688 03312 info 'Libs'~~ Using system libcrypto, version 9070AF
~~2009-08-19 11:02:36.750 03312 info 'App'~~ Vmacore::InitSSL: doVersionCheck = true, handshakeTimeoutUs = 120000000
~~2009-08-19 11:02:40.406 03096 info 'BaseServerConnection'~~ Connecting to server on pipeName \\.\pipe\vmware-converter-server-soap.
SSL:false
Path:/converter/sdk
VMODL version:converter.version.version1

~~2009-08-19 11:02:40.406 03096 info 'BaseServerConnection'~~ NOT using SSL to connect to VMOMI server \\.\pipe\vmware-converter-server-soap
~~2009-08-19 11:02:40.406 03096 info 'ConverterServerConnPipe'~~ Getting ServiceInstance contents
~~2009-08-19 11:02:40.406 03096 verbose 'ConverterServerConnPipe'~~ Yes, we connected to Converter Server.
~~2009-08-19 11:02:40.406 03096 info 'ServerLoginSession'~~ Logging in to Converter Server (Using Impersonate).
~~2009-08-19 11:02:40.438 03096 info 'ServerLoginSession'~~ Converter Server session established. (Session ID = "8E2CF74F-9A54-4408-8718-BAC9EDA83C59")
~~2009-08-19 11:02:55.062 03312 info 'BaseServerConnection'~~ Connecting to server on pipeName \\.\pipe\vmware-converter-server-soap.
SSL:false
Path:/converter/sdk
VMODL version:converter.version.version1

~~2009-08-19 11:02:55.062 03312 info 'BaseServerConnection'~~ NOT using SSL to connect to VMOMI server \\.\pipe\vmware-converter-server-soap
~~2009-08-19 11:02:55.062 03312 info 'ConverterServerConnPipe'~~ Getting ServiceInstance contents
~~2009-08-19 11:02:55.062 03312 verbose 'ConverterServerConnPipe'~~ Yes, we connected to Converter Server.
~~2009-08-19 11:02:55.062 03312 info 'ServerLoginSession'~~ Logging in to Converter Server (Using Impersonate).
~~2009-08-19 11:02:55.078 03312 info 'ServerLoginSession'~~ Converter Server session established. (Session ID = "5D331D3E-3C07-4B13-A098-19A4580E018B")
~~2009-08-19 11:02:55.625 03312 error 'App'~~ SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildFilter 3rd party type microsoftVirtualPCVM not found
~~2009-08-19 11:02:55.625 03312 error 'App'~~ SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildFilter 3rd party type parallelsVM not found
~~2009-08-19 11:02:55.625 03312 error 'App'~~ SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildFilter 3rd party type vmwareVCBBackup not found
~~2009-08-19 11:02:55.625 03312 error 'App'~~ SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildFilter 3rd party type livestateBackup not found
~~2009-08-19 11:02:55.625 03312 error 'App'~~ SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildFilter 3rd party type shadowProtectBackup not found
~~2009-08-19 11:02:55.625 03312 error 'App'~~ SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildFilter 3rd party type acronisBackup not found
~~2009-08-19 11:02:55.625 03312 error 'App'~~ SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildFilter 3rd party type vmwareVM not found
~~2009-08-19 11:02:55.625 03312 error 'App'~~ SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildThirdpartyHostedExtVector 3rd party type vmwareVM not found
~~2009-08-19 11:03:43.186 03312 info 'ServerLoginSession'~~ Logging out of the Converter Server. (Session ID = "5D331D3E-3C07-4B13-A098-19A4580E018B")

In windows event viewer, under applications I see the following:

The description for Event ID ( 1 ) in Source ( vmware-converter-agent ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: vmware-converter-agent service started.

In windows event viewer, under system I see the following:

The VMware vCenter Converter Agent service terminated unexpectedly.

DNS entries disappear after conversion

Angela — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:59:37 GMT

We are in the process of moving development VMs to a new VMware server. Since we're not ready to join our two existing 3.0.2 servers with the new 4.0 server in a cluster, I used the standalone Converter (v4.0.0) to make copies of the VMs on a new LUN presented to all three servers.

Sometime after the copy of the VM is turned on, on the new server and new LUN, the DNS entry for that server disappears.

Any idea why this might be happening?

Convert 4.0 Blue Screen

fpefpe2 — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:01:33 GMT

I installed converter 4.0.1 (VMware-converter-4.0.1-161434.exe) on win 2K pro system. Started comverted to
convert physical to a VM, but the system blue-screen with stop code 0x000000B8. The error message said there was
an issue with a DPC routine -- say clues?

VMWare Convertion

alexandrehf — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:00:05 GMT

Hello, Friends.

I´m experiencing problems with an WebServer convertion that refuses being mirrored. Indee, the convertion get the end but some websites do not work properly.

I´ve made a convertion twice and I´ve tryied to remove/reinstall Framework 3.5 but it didn´t work.

Some has already faced this kind of issue with virtualization?

Alexandre

Error in convert: FAILED: agent.internal.fault.CannotCreateVmSpecParser.summary

GDillon — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:49:00 GMT

I am using vCenter Converter Standalone 4.0.0.146302 trying to convert a Workstation 6.5.2 VM (H/W v7) to an ESX 3.5 Update 2 Server. I keep getting the error in the subject line after 20 seconds. Does anybody know what this means? Google doesn't return anything useful for this error message. reading the log file doesn't show much either. The converter log package is attached

-GDillon

Converter 4: Import to ESX directly

tos2k — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:32:57 GMT

Hi!

Converter 4 standalone supports tom import a physical machine to a ESX host directly. This was supported by Converter 3 too.
How can I achieve that with Converter 4 CLI, Enterprise?

Dont get the XML configured properly for that.

Tos2k

Windows 2008 Converter 4 error while importing new machine from Acronis tib-file

nele2009 — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:33:18 GMT

Hi,

has anybody tried to import a machine from an Acronis image (newest version; image was taken while the server was running) using the Converter 4 PlugIn of a vSphere-Client?

The original server was a VM with Windows 2008. We used the Converter 3.5 U4 wihout problems.

When using the same image, creating a new VM an using the Acronis Boot CD we had no problems with that image.

Are there known any problems with Acronis / Converter 4 / Windows 2008 in a vSphere 4 environment?

TIA,

Nele

Referanced from another post..."used the same helper IP for the new VM I create, it fails. If I use a new IP, then it works."

sethatbestbuy — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:18:37 GMT

This note was not dicussed in the other post. Has anyone else seen this issue and have a fix? Is it the arp cache on the switch?

Full quote: "Edit, one more update. I used the same helper IP for the new VM I create, it fails. If I use a new IP, then it works. I think it has to do with arp cache on switch. When I create a new VM, mac address changes but if I assign the same helper IP, it will not work."

Thanks,

Seth

V2V Conversion requiring re-activation of the OS after conversion

eganmike — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:57:08 GMT

I am in the process of converting many machines from an ESXi 3.5 Host to our new vSphere 4 ESX Host. Many of the machines are now requiring re-activation of the OS. I read the KB artive entitled "Product activation for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003"...but does that apply in a conversion case?

How can I avoid this behavior? I have about 40 VMs to convert.

P2V Conversion fails with error: A general system error occurred

anantshah2009 — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:42:49 GMT

Hello,

We are trying to convert a 2003 server using vCenter Standalone Converter 4.0.1-build-161434. We are getting the following error before conversion actually starts

FAILED: A general system error occurred:
Remote server closed connection after 0 response bytes read

The server has Broadcomm NIC's. We have disabled TOE via registry but we still get the error.

Log file is attached.

conversion of Windows 2000 machine fails, BSOD

chill — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:34:44 GMT

HI All:

This is the scenario. I'm using Converter Standalone. I'm converting from our physical DMZ to our new Virtual DMZ. I was working with VMWare to resolve some other issues with Converter. We finally got it to work, thus using Converter STandalone. However, now when I convert the physical machine to virtual, the Virtual gets the BSOD. I know its with the disks. The Physical box has a C and D drive, when Converter converts it from Physical to Virtual, it converts the disks to one large drive, only a C drive. There doesn't seem to be an option in the process to separate the volumes. I've gone through the advanced options etc... Anyone run into this issue?

Thanks in advance

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Floating point error

whirlycott — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:10:49 GMT

I'm trying to install VMware Converter 4.0.1 on CentOS 5.2 and I'm getting a single message saying "Floating point error" when I try to run the client. Does anybody know how to fix this?

phil.

~~phil@host ~~~$ uname -a
Linux integration 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 #1 SMP Tue Dec 16 12:03:43 EST 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
~~phil@host ~~~$ cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 5.2 (Final)

Question volumeCloneInfo

tos2k — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:47:30 GMT

Hi!

         <volumeCloneInfo separateDisk="false" 
volumeId="attVol={computer={d7e40f6d3ddd078441daab8676a2ed13d2fe8bd2},1}"/>

Does anybody know what that "computer id" means? Is that vmware specific? I know that vmware-converter --jI retrieves that one, er there other ways to achieve that? WMI?

Tos2k

centos switchroot: mount failed: 22, Kernel panic

UsRb — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:19:59 GMT

Hello all,

I converted virtual machine from workstation to ESX, and it won't boot.

It stops at "subject" error. I tried to boot in linux rescue mode, but /mnt/sysimage is not mounted, because it doesn't sees any disk devices, "no linux partitions found". If I list /dev/, there isn't any hda or sda devices.

Can someone give me a hint what could be the problem?

Errors during shadow protect conversion

adameosit — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 05:43:41 GMT

Having some issues converting an image of a 2003 server to a virtual machine on an ESXi4 host.

First off it takes ages its about 200GB with both drives and it reckons its going to take 72hours or more sometimes.

The main issue is during the conversion it will either get so far and come up with an unknown error or it will blue screen.

we have used the machine to conver other images successfully ust this image is causing problems, any ideas.

Error: Unable to locate the required Sysprep files

msanjay196 — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:30:31 GMT

what does this error mean:

Unable tp locate the required Sysprep files. Please upload them under c:\documents and settings\all users\application data\vmware\vmware vcenter converter standalone\sysprep\svr2003 on the converter server machine

I get this error when I am trying to convert a physical box which is running MS Win2K3 terminal services.

thanks for your help

vmc file won't convert -- item/object could not be found, why??

tlyczko — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:19:04 GMT

I'm trying to convert a Virtual Server 2005 vmc file to vmx, I get an error that apparently the vmc file can't be found.
How do I fix this so I can convert the VHD as well??
I did not find anything obvious in the logs nor via Google...
BTW this is a Microsoft trial VHD that I want to run on ESX.
Thank you, Tom

Converter-cli.exe: Only VMware Consolidated Backup sources are allowed at the moment

eableson — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:20:16 GMT

Can someone from VMware shed some light on this message? I'm trying to do some basic automation of VM deployments via the VMware Converter to ESXi servers. Currently running the 4.0.1 Standalone Converter with some very basic machines.

command line used:
converter-cli -s e:\p2vxml\dns01.xml

where dns01.xml contains:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<p2v version="1.0" xmlns="http://www.vmware.com/v2/sysimage/p2v" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.vmware.com/v2/sysimage/p2v p2v.xsd">
<source>
<hostedSpec path="e:\dns01\dns01.vmx" password=""/>
</source>
<dest>
<managedSpec vmName="dns01" folder="dns01" datastore="esx00" host="192.168.192.100">
</managedSpec>
</dest>
<importParams targetProductVersion="PRODUCT_MANAGED" hardwareVersion="vmx-07"/>
</p2v>

All based on the examples in the documentation. Adding a spectype attribute generates another erro (expected "=")

So the situation resumes to two questions :
1. Is there any way to convince VMware Converter Standalone 4.0 to P2V a Workstation VM at the command line to ESXi and/or
2. What's the best way to automate/script the deployment of a Workstation VM (or a manual copy of an ESX VM) to ESXi?