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Workstation Pro 15.5: Convert physical machine to VM - keeps failing

sargehendricks — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 19:09:59 GMT

Good Afternoon,

I have tried accomplishing this task with the vCenter Converter Standalone itself as well as the "Virtualize a Physical Machine" wizard through Workstation Pro itself. I have also tried to create the VM from the Workstation host as well as creating the VM from the physical machine to be converted. I get a different type of error with each way I've tried to do this.

For starters, I am trying to virtualize a newer Latitude 9250 with TPM and UEFI (if that matters). I am doing this (I hope) to prevent having to walk around with multiple machines all the time.

In trying to create the VM from the standalone converter on the host, I continually get a failure at 1% of creation of the VM with an error that it was "cannot format volume." Regardless of what disk controller that I use or how I choose to clone the volumes, that's error that is produced.

If I try to use Workstation Pro's wizard, I ended up with a "converter.fault.CredentialsConflictFault" referencing the inability to create a share to write the VM to. I am using the administrator account for this process. I also setup a dedicated, administrator account for this process. That didn't work either. I also manually created a share for writing the VM files. That also failed with the same error.

Other than the error message windows that appear during these processes, I have been unable to find any sort of information that helps to determine what the actual problem is, or how to solve it. Does anyone know of a way to debug this process? I would really like to get this done, but I have no idea what direction to go next. I have been trying this for days.

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

Also... I tried to use Starwind V2V to convert the machine as well, writing to an ESXi box I have in my office, but I received a message from THAT software stating that my license was incorrect for that operation.

Re: Workstation Pro 15.5: Convert physical machine to VM - keeps failing

scott28tt — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 20:29:24 GMT

No clues as to what the OS is? With a version number too?

Re: Workstation Pro 15.5: Convert physical machine to VM - keeps failing

continuum — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 13:20:06 GMT

> I am doing this (I hope) to prevent having to walk around with multiple machines all the time.

Explain why you can not set up a new Win10 or Win11 from scratch.
Compared to an import (p2v) of a Win10 with active TPM and UEFI, the creation of a new VM is like a walk in the park vs a climb of the K2.
Anyway - respect for your warrior mindset

Re: Workstation Pro 15.5: Convert physical machine to VM - keeps failing

sargehendricks — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 20:58:34 GMT

Sorry about that. Both the host and (desired) VM are Windows 10 Pro. The host is version 21H2 19044.1766, and the machine that I want to convert is also version 21H2 19044.1766.

Re: Workstation Pro 15.5: Convert physical machine to VM - keeps failing

continuum — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 21:22:37 GMT

Why cant you set it up from scratch ?