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

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

Best practices for using and troubleshooting VMware Converter

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

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i find more information:

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

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

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