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FAILURE - Convert Physical Machine - Task Failed posted: May 21, 2009 8:20 AM

Click to view shyguycalif's profile Lurker 2 posts since
May 21, 2009

Hi

I am struggling to convert the Windows 2003 Physical machine to Virtual Machine. I keep getting this error. Please help.

11:29 PM Step 1: Connecting to VMware Converter Agent on localhost
11:29 PM Step 2: Creating target virtual machine and converting data
11:29 PM Configuring parameters for the target virtual machine...
11:29 PM Creating target virtual machine...
11:29 PM Taking a snapshot of the volume...
11:29 PM Cloning source volume c: into target virtual machine...
11:37 PM Taking a snapshot of the volume...
11:37 PM Cloning source volume d: into target virtual machine...
2:43 AM Updating boot sectors...
2:43 AM Adjusting drive letter mappings...
2:44 AM Step 3: Preparing target virtual machine
2:44 AM ERROR: Unknown error returned by VMware Converter Agent.

Logs Indicate the following

2009-05-21 02:44:00.093 'P2V' 3680 info postProcessingTask,85 Calling DoReconfig
2009-05-21 02:44:00.093 'P2V' 1436 verbose jobManager,438 Raising event 4 for job 4
2009-05-21 02:44:00.109 'App' 3680 verbose imageProcessingTaskWrapper,109 Successfully connected to VmiReconfigTask::task{8}
2009-05-21 02:44:00.125 'App' 3680 verbose imageProcessingTaskWrapper,817 Start managed object method for task VmiReconfigTask::task{8}
2009-05-21 02:44:00.125 'App' 3680 verbose imageProcessingTaskWrapper,437 Waiting for updates from VmiReconfigTask::task{8}
2009-05-21 02:44:00.125 'App' 3680 verbose imageProcessingTaskWrapper,668 (Re)Start waiting for property updates from VmiReconfigTask::task{8}
2009-05-21 02:44:00.125 'App' 1436 verbose imageProcessingTaskWrapper,749 Got an update from VmiReconfigTask::task{8}
2009-05-21 02:44:00.125 'App' 3680 verbose imageProcessingTaskWrapper,437 Waiting for updates from VmiReconfigTask::task{8}
2009-05-21 02:44:00.125 'App' 3680 verbose imageProcessingTaskWrapper,668 (Re)Start waiting for property updates from VmiReconfigTask::task{8}
2009-05-21 02:44:05.171 'App' 3704 verbose imageProcessingTaskWrapper,749 Got an update from VmiReconfigTask::task{8}
2009-05-21 02:44:05.171 'App' 3680 verbose imageProcessingTaskWrapper,437 Waiting for updates from VmiReconfigTask::task{8}
2009-05-21 02:44:05.171 'App' 3680 verbose imageProcessingTaskWrapper,668 (Re)Start waiting for property updates from VmiReconfigTask::task{8}
2009-05-21 02:44:05.171 'App' 1436 verbose imageProcessingTaskWrapper,749 Got an update from VmiReconfigTask::task{8}
2009-05-21 02:44:05.171 'App' 3680 verbose imageProcessingTaskWrapper,437 Waiting for updates from VmiReconfigTask::task{8}
2009-05-21 02:44:05.171 'App' 3680 verbose imageProcessingTaskWrapper,668 (Re)Start waiting for property updates from VmiReconfigTask::task{8}
2009-05-21 02:44:05.921 'App' 3704 verbose imageProcessingTaskWrapper,749 Got an update from VmiReconfigTask::task{8}
2009-05-21 02:44:05.921 'App' 3680 verbose imageProcessingTaskWrapper,437 Waiting for updates from VmiReconfigTask::task{8}
2009-05-21 02:44:05.921 'App' 3680 verbose imageProcessingTaskWrapper,668 (Re)Start waiting for property updates from VmiReconfigTask::task{8}
2009-05-21 02:44:07.875 'App' 3272 verbose imageProcessingTaskWrapper,886 Remote task VmiReconfigTask::task{8} completed
2009-05-21 02:44:07.875 'App' 3680 verbose imageProcessingTaskWrapper,437 Waiting for updates from VmiReconfigTask::task{8}
2009-05-21 02:44:07.875 'App' 3708 verbose imageProcessingTaskWrapper,749 Got an update from VmiReconfigTask::task{8}
2009-05-21 02:44:07.875 'App' 3680 verbose imageProcessingTaskWrapper,515 Cleaning up remote task VmiReconfigTask::task{8}
2009-05-21 02:44:07.890 'App' 3680 verbose imageProcessingTaskWrapper,1201 Disposing task wrapper for task VmiReconfigTask::task{8}
2009-05-21 02:44:07.921 'P2V' 3680 error task,295 Task failed: P2VError UNKNOWN_METHOD_FAULT(sysimage.fault.ReconfigFault)
2009-05-21 02:44:07.921 'P2V' 3680 verbose task,339 Transition from InProgress to Failure requested
2009-05-21 02:44:07.921 'P2V' 3680 verbose task,388 Transition succeeded
2009-05-21 02:44:07.921 'P2V' 3680 verbose job,276 Job 4 changing state from 1 to 2
2009-05-21 02:44:07.921 'P2V' 3680 verbose serialization,220 Serializing job 4
2009-05-21 02:44:07.921 'P2V' 3680 verbose serialization,227 Archiving job to C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\VMware\p2v-ws60\jobs\00000004.xml
2009-05-21 02:44:07.937 'P2V' 3680 verbose jobManager,438 Raising event 2 for job 4
2009-05-21 02:44:07.937 'P2V' 3680 verbose jobManager,438 Raising event 4 for job 4
2009-05-21 02:44:07.937 'P2V' 3680 verbose jobManager,438 Raising event 6 for job 4
2009-05-21 02:44:07.937 'VmdbSvc' 3680 verbose Shutting down VMDB service...
2009-05-21 02:44:07.937 'VmdbSvc' 3680 verbose Unregistering callback...
2009-05-21 02:44:07.937 'VmdbSvc' 3680 verbose ...done

+Complete Log is attached below

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Is there anyway I can get this resolved?

Thanks!!

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Click to view AndreTheGiant's profile Guru 5,916 posts since
Aug 28, 2008
When there is a "customizing" problem, using is caused by strange driver, strange boot.ini, strange partition table, usage of dynamic disks.

Which version of Converter are you using?
The physical machine is a 32 bit version?

Andre
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