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Mar 30, 2009 6:54 PM

Error: Failed to clone the volume mounted on '/' from 'ip address'

hi ,i have a question as the title aboved.

 

i use vmware vcenter standalone 4 which run on windows xp,convert as4 to esx3.0.2,and i have assigned the statiic ip to helper virtual machine and dns server.

 

 

when it run to 98%,it has turned out the title.---Error: Failed to clone the volume mounted on '/' from 'ip address'.

 

 

i have searched from google,it was said by someone,converter didn't recognize the volume of software raid.but i also have tried the hardware raid of as4,the result is the same as above.

 

 

so ,who can help me. i have upload the log files all.

 

 

thank you.

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vmweathers Expert VMware Employees
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1. Mar 30, 2009 6:49 PM in response to: soap2003
Re: Error: Failed to clone the volume mounted on '/' from 'ip address'

It has nothing to do with software RAID since that only affects discovery of the source during the beginning of the Linux P2V process (whilst still in the Wizard).

 

 

Where are these logs you uploaded? (I do not see them attached to your post)

 

 

 

You may need to enable sparse file preservation, see this KB article:

 

 

 

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1008303

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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2. Mar 30, 2009 6:59 PM in response to: vmweathers
Re: Error: Failed to clone the volume mounted on '/' from 'ip address'

 

sorry ,i have already upload the attach file.

 

 

thank you .

 

 

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3. Mar 30, 2009 7:09 PM in response to: soap2003
Re: Error: Failed to clone the volume mounted on '/' from 'ip address'

 

The reason this is failing is that tar fails after spitting out too many of these errors:

 

 

 

tar: ./var: time stamp 2008-10-24 08:02:37 is 4243881.056239962 s in the future

 

 

 

 

 

This problem is documented in the release notes: http://www.vmware.com/support/converter/doc/releasenotes_conv40.html#76

 

 

Whenever 4.0.1 ships we'll prevent this from causing the P2V to fail, until then you'll need to fix the clocks on 1 or both of your systems.

 

 

 

 

 

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4. Mar 30, 2009 7:51 PM in response to: vmweathers
Re: Error: Failed to clone the volume mounted on '/' from 'ip address'

how to Synchronize the clocks between the source machine and the destination ESX host if possible?

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5. Mar 30, 2009 8:01 PM in response to: soap2003
Re: Error: Failed to clone the volume mounted on '/' from 'ip address'

 

Most likely the problem is that the ESX's clock is way off.  You just configure NTP for the ESX using VI Client and it should work.

 

  • select ESX machine in VI client

  • select Configuration tab

  • click Time Configuration link

  • click Properties link

  • click NTP Configuration' Options button.

 

However it might be that the source's clock is way off in the future, and if so you can touch all the file's timestamps (this is pretty ugly): 

 

  • cd /

  • find . -name "*" -mount | xargs touch -t 03030000

 

That will set the timestamps of allt he files on / to March 3rd of the current year.

 

 

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6. Mar 31, 2009 1:07 AM in response to: vmweathers
Re: Error: Failed to clone the volume mounted on '/' from 'ip address'

in the esx of vi ,i found the configuration,but i didn't find time to set clock option,it has hardware and software.

then ,select what to ntp server?

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7. Mar 31, 2009 11:00 AM in response to: soap2003
Re: Error: Failed to clone the volume mounted on '/' from 'ip address'

 

I forget what version of ESX you are running, if it's 3.5+ then you can use the VI client...

 

 

if however you are running an older ESX you'll need to configure NTP manually:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All I did was search the web for that information...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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