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brownkevin
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vCenter Converter fails P2V at 98%: Unable to find the system volume, reconfiguration is not possible.

Hi,

I am seeing a failure of a P2V at 98% with vCenter Converter 5.0.0 on a Windows 7 machine.  I have extensively searched the discussion archives and am not able to determine the source of my failure.

The error:

FAILED: Unable to find the system volume, reconfiguration is not possible.

Error: An error occurred during reconfiguration.

I have tried several suggestions from the archives such as; running as administrator, disabled real-time virus scanning, disabled other processes via msconfig, and am running Converter from the same physical machine I am trying to convert.  The disk has three partitions, a restore/backup, C:, and 😧 and during the converter wizard I only select the C and D partitions.

Here is an excerpt from the converter-gui.log file (full logs attached)

(converter.event.ReconfigurationProcessingReconfigurationDatastore) {
-->                         dynamicType = <unset>,
-->                         key = 218,
-->            

           chainId = 207,
-->                         type = "info",
-->                         createdTime = "2011-11-10T21:29:17.316723Z",
-->                       

userName = "smarthome",
-->                         fullMessage = "Processing the reconfiguration datastore.",
-->                         job = <unset>,
-->                 

   },
-->                   }
-->                ],
-->             }
-->          ],
-->       }
-->    ],
-->    truncated = <unset>,
--> }
2011-11-10T13:29:17.441-08:00 [03660 verbose 'ConverterDataProviderImpl'] Converter::Client::Gui::Wizard::ConverterDataProviderImpl::PropertyCollectorThread[503] -

(vmodl.query.PropertyCollector.UpdateSet) {
-->    dynamicType = <unset>,
-->    version = "503",
-->    filterSet = (vmodl.query.PropertyCollector.FilterUpdate) [
-->     

(vmodl.query.PropertyCollector.FilterUpdate) {
-->          dynamicType = <unset>,
-->          filter = 'vmodl.query.PropertyCollector.Filter:session[5245277b-615a-d1a6-acf0-

5c4169293fd8]52583cb6-207b-98ea-720d-3f6f646c0baa',
-->          objectSet = (vmodl.query.PropertyCollector.ObjectUpdate) [
-->           

(vmodl.query.PropertyCollector.ObjectUpdate) {
-->                dynamicType = <unset>,
-->                kind = "modify",
-->                obj =

'converter.task.Task:task-20',
-->                changeSet = (vmodl.query.PropertyCollector.Change) [
-->                   (vmodl.query.PropertyCollector.Change) {
-->       

             dynamicType = <unset>,
-->                      name = "event[219]",
-->                      op = "add",
-->                      val =

(converter.event.ReconfigurationFailedEvent) {
-->                         dynamicType = <unset>,
-->                         key = 219,
-->                         chainId =

207,
-->                         type = "error",
-->                         createdTime = "2011-11-10T21:29:17.379123Z",
-->                         userName = "smarthome",
-->                         fullMessage = "An error occurred during reconfiguration.",
-->                         job = <unset>,
-->                      },
-->             

    }
-->                ],
-->             }
-->          ],
-->       }
-->    ],
-->    truncated = <unset>,
--> }

Thank you and I greatly appreciate the help!

-Kevin

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POCEH
VMware Employee
VMware Employee

Try to reconfig your destination machine as a separate task. HTH

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spravtek
Expert
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I recently did a P2V of a windows 2003 server, it also failed at 98% with the same error ... Though the machine was created and booted up fine. So I did some manual configuration and that was that. Did it create the machine for you?

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POCEH
VMware Employee
VMware Employee

Something is not standad with your disk configuration porbably.

But if the destination machine starts all is fine. I hope. Smiley Happy

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spravtek
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Yeah maybe ... Though he did the conversion of it perfectly, it shrunk the D-drive and grew the C-drive without an issue, I didn't look into the error since the machine booted up fine Smiley Wink

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