Standalone converter failed to connect to a local server

[Remsky]

Hi all,

I have installed VMware vCenter Convert Standalone 4.0.1 onto a Windows XP box. My aim is to convert this into a VM on the same machine before re-configuring the machine as a multi-boot with a Linux distro.

I have various Ghost image backups, but I'd really like to be able to run the VM from within Linux rather than having to reboot.

When I try to start VM Converter Standaslon 4.0.1 I get an error message stating "Failed to impersonate current user to the converter server"

I then get a form to input details:

IP Address / Name: (I can only choose localhost)

User name & Password

but whatever connection details I input I get the following errorr

I checked the services, and VMware vCenter Converter Server is started

This still fails even when VMware vCentre Converter Agent is also started.

Would appreciate any help on this stumble at the first hurdle.

Thanks in advance,

Rém

[micy]

Hi.

I have the same problem on WXP, SP3 and last update. Server and agent are running but they don't listen on the ports 443 and 9089.

There is everything fine on WS2003 .

[Remsky]

Solved:

I found an FAQ which basically recommended re-installing if anything went wrong.

but just to be sure I created a new Admin account & password

Uninstalled Converter and re-installed it - worked like a charm.

Also managed to clone my local machine, but it insisted on cloning both physical drives (not what I wanted, since the second disk has 150GB)

still, it's a positive start.

[glestwid]

Have got the same issue. Win7 x64 Sp1 Prof, tried to install, uninstall and reinstall again vCenter Converter 5.0.0-470252 - "Failed to impersonate blah-blah-blah" upon client start.

[bormil66]

Hi geeks

In case you have this error in XP OS - then you should use Administrator account!!

With this Admin account evrything works ok!

[Phatsta]

I got this error too, and reinstalling didn't matter. I traced it to my account containing non-english characters, as my server was a swedish one where the default administrator account is spelled in swedish. Creating another admin account with english-character username solved the issue.

[abbra]

Thank you!

Your answer helped me!

Just created another admin with latin characters

[raffic_ncc]

Thanks for sharing the info...

[Krammitman]

I ran into this as well using a domain account. While still an administrator account it was giving me the "failed to impersonate user" error. After digging around for a second i realized I had set custom DNS for testing and forgot to switch my DNS back to my DC so the application was unable to authenticate my Domain user account against the proper DC. Switched my DNS back to default and everything worked just fine.