vmware converter hung at 98% converting rh7.6 v2v

[dgmcferren]

I have a Redhat 7.6 on Rhel.  I am trying to convert the machine to vmware using the 6.2.0 version of vmware converter.  I have done this repeatedly with little problems when the OS is 7.5 5 months ago. 

Here are the steps that I do prior to starting the conversion...

1.  Make sure root login is enabled via ssh

2.  Make sure connection between the windows machine running the vmware converter, the vmware cluster tp be hosting the newly converted machine and the original rhel based redhat machine is good.

3.  Make sure all unnecessary processes running on the machine have been stopped.

4.  Make sure /var/tmp is unmounted

5.  Make sure no processes are using /tmp

6.  Remount /tmp as executable (mount -o remount,exec /tmp)

Start up the converter, set ip options, along with helper ip.

The converter chugs along till it gets to 98%, and the last message in Task Progess is "Creating initial ramdisk".

The task times out giving an error of

"SysCommandWrapper: Error encountered in SysCommand: SysCommand failed to wait /usr/lib/vmware-converter/chrootAndExec.sh to terminate"

I seem to have no problems with any 7.5 machine, but this happens on all the 7.6 machines that I have tried.

I have searched the error log file and google for anyone else having this error with 7.6 with no luck.

Any comments or hints of action would be helpful.  If I am posting in the wrong place, let me know the proper place to ask my question.

TIA

Dave McFerren

[Raj1988]

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/67504

https://docs.vmware.com/en/vCenter-Converter-Standalone/6.2/rn/conv_sa_62_rel_notes.html#linux-sourc...

[sprintership]

i downt want to use bad words towards VMWARE and this is a big bs and f..t situation at this time none of works when trying to virtualise centos7

anybody with some sort work around that would work? the above did not work:

yum downgrade lvm2-libs-2.02.180-10.el7_6.2.x86_64 lvm2-2.02.180-10.el7_6.2.x86_64 device-mapper-event-libs-1.02.149-10.el7_6.2.x86_64 device-mapper-1.02.149-10.el7_6.2.x86_64 device-mapper-libs-1.02.149-10.el7_6.2.x86_64 device-mapper-event-1.02.149-10.el7_6.2.x86_64 --skip-broken

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror

Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile

* base: mirrors.liquidweb.com

* extras: mirror.sesp.northwestern.edu

* updates: ftpmirror.your.org

No package lvm2-libs-2.02.180-10.el7_6.2.x86_64 available.

No package lvm2-2.02.180-10.el7_6.2.x86_64 available.

No package device-mapper-event-libs-1.02.149-10.el7_6.2.x86_64 available.

No package device-mapper-1.02.149-10.el7_6.2.x86_64 available.

No package device-mapper-libs-1.02.149-10.el7_6.2.x86_64 available.

No package device-mapper-event-1.02.149-10.el7_6.2.x86_64 available.

Error: Nothing to do

[patanassov]

Hello

This thread is where it all began: VMware Converter Standalone halts at 97-98% at mkinitrd (dracut) for RHEL/CENTOS 7.6 kernels

There is a cruder workaround described there. Besides tomuxi (the OP) mentions at the end that Red Hat had fixed the issue with another update.

The investigation of the above mentioned issue lead to Converter not supporting RHEL/CentOS above 7.5 (see VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 6.2.0.1 Release Notes ).

The fact that the workaround described doesn't work looks like is due to Red Hat dropping these packages from their repository.

Btw, I have converted 7.7 with root on LVM successfully. Upgrading to 7.7 might be a viable workaround.

Regards,

Plamen

[VishaanB]

Hello

I was able to to resolve this by using an older version of Vmware converter. I used version 6.1.1.

Worked like a charm.

Regards

Vishaan

[rugginic]

Unfortunately vCenter Converter Standalone has been discontinues and it is out of support since 2019-12-14.

The latest released version was 6.2.0.1 which provides support to CentOS and RHEL up to 7.5

https://docs.vmware.com/en/vCenter-Converter-Standalone/6.2/rn/conv_sa_62_rel_notes.html

• CentOS 6.x (32-bit and 64-bit)
• CentOS 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5 (64-bit)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.x (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5 (64-bit)