Conversion fails at 1%

[Subversive]

Hi, I'm trying to run a P2V using Converter. I've successfully converted this server before, but for some reason it's failing on me over and over today. I thought it could be because of the name, so I've tried naming it various things, it still fails. Here is the text from the log file. Any suggestions?

License job init with license file: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\VMware\p2vlcns

License job Success !

Transition from None to InProgress requested

Transition succeeded

Starting execution of a Task

Connecting to IPC$ on 192.168.1.135 as 192.168.1.135\administrator

Successfully connected to IPC$ on 192.168.1.135

Connecting to
192.168.1.135\pipe\vmware-ufad-p2v30-vmdb, use SSL: true

Successfully connected to
192.168.1.135\pipe\vmware-ufad-p2v30-vmdb

Connected to stream: SSL()

Unsetting unknown path: /vmomi/

Making sure that UFAD interface has version vmware-ufad-p2v30-build-44840

UFAD interface version is vmware-ufad-p2v30-build-44840

Task execution completed

Transition from InProgress to Success requested

Transition succeeded

QuerySourceInfo called

Transition from None to InProgress requested

Transition succeeded

Starting execution of a Task

Successfully connected to VMImporter

Successfully connected to VmiQuerySourceInfoTask::task Start managed object method for task VmiQuerySourceInfoTask::task

Waiting for updates from VmiQuerySourceInfoTask::task (Re)Start waiting for property updates from VmiQuerySourceInfoTask::task

Got an update from VmiQuerySourceInfoTask::task Waiting for updates from VmiQuerySourceInfoTask::task

(Re)Start waiting for property updates from VmiQuerySourceInfoTask::task Got an update from VmiQuerySourceInfoTask::task

Remote task VmiQuerySourceInfoTask::task completed Cleaning up remote task VmiQuerySourceInfoTask::task

Disposing task wrapper for task VmiQuerySourceInfoTask::task

Task execution completed

Transition from InProgress to Success requested

Transition succeeded

License job init with license file: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\VMware\p2vlcns

License job Success !

License job init with license file: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\VMware\p2vlcns

License job Success !

Transition from None to InProgress requested

Transition succeeded

Starting execution of a Task

Connecting to host 192.168.1.223 on port 443 using protocol https

SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStore: Subject mismatch: esx03.ivrnet.corp vs 192.168.1.223

SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStore: The remote host certificate has these problems:

• The host name used for the connection does not match the subject name on the host certificate

• A certificate in the host's chain is based on an untrusted root.

SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStore: Certificate verification is disabled, so connection will proceed despite the error

SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStore: Subject mismatch: esx03.ivrnet.corp vs 192.168.1.223

SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStore: The remote host certificate has these problems:

• The host name used for the connection does not match the subject name on the host certificate

• A certificate in the host's chain is based on an untrusted root.

SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStore: Certificate verification is disabled, so connection will proceed despite the error

Authenticating user root

Logged in!

Task execution completed

Transition from InProgress to Success requested

Transition succeeded

GetTargetDiskSize called

Transition from None to InProgress requested

Transition succeeded

Starting execution of a Task

Successfully connected to VMImporter

Successfully connected to VmiGetDiskSizesTask::task Start managed object method for task VmiGetDiskSizesTask::task

Waiting for updates from VmiGetDiskSizesTask::task (Re)Start waiting for property updates from VmiGetDiskSizesTask::task

Got an update from VmiGetDiskSizesTask::task Waiting for updates from VmiGetDiskSizesTask::task

(Re)Start waiting for property updates from VmiGetDiskSizesTask::task Got an update from VmiGetDiskSizesTask::task

Remote task VmiGetDiskSizesTask::task completed Cleaning up remote task VmiGetDiskSizesTask::task

Disposing task wrapper for task VmiGetDiskSizesTask::task

Task execution completed

Transition from InProgress to Success requested

Transition succeeded

CheckDestAvailable called

Transition from None to InProgress requested

Transition succeeded

Starting execution of a Task

Successfully connected to VMImporter

Successfully connected to VmiCheckDestAvailableTask::task Start managed object method for task VmiCheckDestAvailableTask::task

Waiting for updates from VmiCheckDestAvailableTask::task (Re)Start waiting for property updates from VmiCheckDestAvailableTask::task

Got an update from VmiCheckDestAvailableTask::task Waiting for updates from VmiCheckDestAvailableTask::task

(Re)Start waiting for property updates from VmiCheckDestAvailableTask::task Got an update from VmiCheckDestAvailableTask::task

Remote task VmiCheckDestAvailableTask::task completed Cleaning up remote task VmiCheckDestAvailableTask::task

Disposing task wrapper for task VmiCheckDestAvailableTask::task

Task execution completed

Transition from InProgress to Success requested

Transition succeeded

CheckDestParams called

Transition from None to InProgress requested

Transition succeeded

Starting execution of a Task

Successfully connected to VMImporter

Successfully connected to VmiCheckDestParamsTask::task Start managed object method for task VmiCheckDestParamsTask::task

Waiting for updates from VmiCheckDestParamsTask::task (Re)Start waiting for property updates from VmiCheckDestParamsTask::task

Got an update from VmiCheckDestParamsTask::task Waiting for updates from VmiCheckDestParamsTask::task

(Re)Start waiting for property updates from VmiCheckDestParamsTask::task Got an update from VmiCheckDestParamsTask::task

Remote task VmiCheckDestParamsTask::task completed Cleaning up remote task VmiCheckDestParamsTask::task

Disposing task wrapper for task VmiCheckDestParamsTask::task

Task execution completed

Transition from InProgress to Success requested

Transition succeeded

Shutting down VMDB service...

Unregistering callback...

...done

Serializing the job manager's state

Job 62 changing state from -1 to 0

Adding job 62

Serializing job 62

Archiving job to C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\VMware\p2v30\jobs\00000062.xml

Raising event 0 for job 62

Starting job 62 as 1/-1 running job

Starting job 62

Transition from None to InProgress requested

Job 62 changing state from 0 to 1

Transition succeeded

Serializing job 62

Starting execution of a Task

Connecting to IPC$ on 192.168.1.135 as 192.168.1.135\administrator

Archiving job to C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\VMware\p2v30\jobs\00000062.xml

Successfully connected to IPC$ on 192.168.1.135

Raising event 2 for job 62

Raising event 4 for job 62

Connecting to
192.168.1.135\pipe\vmware-ufad-p2v30-vmdb, use SSL: true

Successfully connected to
192.168.1.135\pipe\vmware-ufad-p2v30-vmdb

Connected to stream: SSL()

Unsetting unknown path: /vmomi/

Making sure that UFAD interface has version vmware-ufad-p2v30-build-44840

UFAD interface version is vmware-ufad-p2v30-build-44840

Task execution completed

Transition from InProgress to Success requested

Transition succeeded

UFA session created successfully

DoImport called

Serializing job 62

Transition from None to InProgress requested

Transition succeeded

Starting execution of a Task

Archiving job to C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\VMware\p2v30\jobs\00000062.xml

Successfully connected to VMImporter

Successfully connected to VmiImportTask::task Start managed object method for task VmiImportTask::task

Waiting for updates from VmiImportTask::task (Re)Start waiting for property updates from VmiImportTask::task

Got an update from VmiImportTask::task Raising event 4 for job 62 Waiting for updates from VmiImportTask::task

(Re)Start waiting for property updates from VmiImportTask::task Got an update from VmiImportTask::task

Raising event 4 for job 62

Waiting for updates from VmiImportTask::task (Re)Start waiting for property updates from VmiImportTask::task

Got an update from VmiImportTask::task Remote task VmiImportTask::task completed

Cleaning up remote task VmiImportTask::task Disposing task wrapper for task VmiImportTask::task

Task failed: P2VError UFAD_SYSTEM_ERROR(vmodl.fault.InvalidRequest)

Transition from InProgress to Failure requested

Transition succeeded

Job 62 changing state from 1 to 2

Serializing job 62

Archiving job to C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\VMware\p2v30\jobs\00000062.xml

Raising event 2 for job 62

Raising event 4 for job 62

Raising event 6 for job 62

Shutting down VMDB service...

Unregistering callback...

...done

[theanykey]

Which version of converter did you run? The plugin within VC or the separate download version? Could you attach the entire log (or all of them in .zip)? If this is the download version, you can find that in the C:\windows\temp\vmware-temp\ of the machine you are trying to convert.

[Subversive]

Okay, I tried it again this morning, with a different server. Same error, failed at 1%. So I went on the physical server and tried to run the conversion from the local box. Same error, 1%. The version of Vmware Converter on this server is 3.0.1 build 44840. I'm attaching the log from the conversion. Anything you can see would be helpful. Thanks.

[theanykey]

Try again with Converter 3.0.2u1 (www.vmware.com/downloads/converter) and install/run as the local admin direct on the physical machine you are converting. Afterwhich, if it still fails, attach the vmware-converter-#.log file (not the client log).

[Subversive]

Upgraded to the newest version. Failed at 2% this time with the error "ERROR: Failed to take snapshot of a source volume. Possible causes include not having any NTFS volumes on Windows XP or Windows 2003 source systems, and not having enough free disk space."

Attaching the converter log. Thanks.

[theanykey]

Creating snapshot using vss

Shapshot creation failed. driver=vss

Creating snapshot using vsnap

Vsnap does not have admin rights

Snapshotting
?\Volume{b60dba70-ca8c-11d9-9e6c-806d6172696f} using stcbasic.sys

stcbasic.sys not installed or snapshot creation failed. err=2

VSS = volume shadow copy service. This is what we use to clone a windows XP or 2003 machine. But for windows 2000 and NT4, we push a new service called stcbasic.sys.

So basically it always say "Vsnap does not have admin rights" and then attempt the stcbasic.sys method for windows 2000. But the last line is the actual problem. I suspect you either neglected to reboot the 2000 box after installing the converter agent (which is necessary since you just upgraded) or you have a lock on the drive (antivirus, etc)

To resolve a lock, try msconfig.

For windows 2000, you will need to use a 3rd party tool:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=windows2000msconfig&btnG=Google+Search

To do so:

Click Start --> enter "msconfig" (without quotes)

Click on the "services" tab

Check the box for "hide all Microsoft services"

Select "disable all", then re-check the VMware services

Select the "startup" tab

Select "disable all" then re-check the VMware startup items

Reboot.