Linux conversion fails: Error: Unable to clone the volume mounted on '/boot' from '(Local IP)'.

[swdee]

Full error: FAILED: An error occurred during the conversion: 'Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic). /bin/tar_1.28: This does not look like a tar archive /bin/tar_1.28:
Exiting with failure status due to previous errors /usr/lib/vmware-converter/bin/ssh -z -F /usr/lib/vmware-converter/ssh.conf root@172.16.0.14 -i /usr/lib/vmware-converter/helper.pem -p 22 " tar --one-file-system --sparse -C '/boot' -cf - ." | /bin/tar_1.28 --numeric-owner --delay-directory-restore -C '/mnt/p2v-src-root/boot' -y -xf - (return code 2)'

Converting from Centos 7 to VMware. Can someone help please thanks

[patanassov]

This looks like some misconfiguration of SSH connectivity on the source machine. Google for "publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic" there are more than one result that looks promising.

HTH,

Plamen

[swdee]

Thanks but it looks like Converter has a problem with logging in using a public key. This method kept stopping at 3% with the above message.

Setting up a root password, allowing passwordAuthentication (which I normaly don't want to do), and logging in with that works now, but now it's stuck at 92% "Starting to clone /var/log".

That folder is only 54MB, but it's been stuck at that for half an hour now, "brilliant" :S

I thought this soiftware is supposed to make this task easier

[swdee]

I had to unselect the offending folder "/var/log", and it completed successsfully, then I re-created the /var/log directories/files manually.

Bizzare!

[patanassov]

It's good it worked.

Converter uses 'tar' for file transfer (you can see the exact syntax in the error message). There is something peculiar in the /var/log directory that interferes with tar. I vaguely remember similar issues have occurred before but don't remember what it was exactly.