phampson,

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I am not aware of a way to change the temp dir used by Converter. It may be better to provide a the logs and a screen shot of the error messages you are getting from the Converter GUI. Use the File menu option "Export Logs" to generate a Zip file to attach to this post.

If the OVA files are stored on a network drive, please move them to local storage of the system running converter and then attempt the conversion again.


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EvilOne
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Thanks for the reply. This directory is empty after the fact.

Continuum,

This is the correct answer for moving the TEMP directory to another drive, so thank you for that. the machine i'm running the converter on is vista so i thought i had done this not realizing the setting was not a computer setting, but rather a user setting. Not sure what the computer TEMP setting does, but changing it on the user worked for getting VMWare converter to use the D Drive. This will definitely help once i figure out why my OVA files are failing.

To answer your question of why i chose OVA files, for some reason, it was the only thing that i could get to work. Every other format i used to pull the servers down from my ESXI 4 beta server would fail. Unfortunately, i needed the same machine to move off the Beta server, so i had do to an in place upgrade. It's a lab so it's not an elegant setup. VMMachines stored on the ESXI server (as opposed to on network).