FAILED: There are not enough licenses installed to perform the operation

[UnixGirl]

Hi,

I downloaded the VMware vCenter converter standalone, and already converted one physical linux box toVMware ESXi server as a guest successfully. Now I'm trying to convert the second one and it starts running but then fails with this error:

FAILED: There are not enough licenses installed to perform the operation

on the pricing and licensign bit I read that we are required a license key. Any Ideas? Any one?

I do appreciate any input.

Thank you

Kathy

[continuum]

Hi Kathy - welcome

that should not happen with the free Converter 4.0.1

what exactly did you try to do ?

and when does this message appear ?

Is this a message that comes from the ESXi or is it Converter itself ?

Are you using the free license version or is this a paid ESXi or within the trial period ?




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[UnixGirl]

Hi,

Thanks you for the reply. The error comes from Converter, I am using a free license version of ESXi, and as I mentioned I'm converting a physical Linux to VMware.

First one went fine the second failed. Here is a screen shot.:

[continuum]

only a very small number of the Linux distributions available today are supported by Converter so it would to know which one you are talking about.

Sorry - I do not know wether the free ESXi puts a limit to such actions.

Can you temporarily use a fresh USB-ESXi-stick so that those eventual limitations do not apply ?

For Linux P2V you can always use a Knoppix with dd and adjust drivers later.

We recently discussed this with a gentoo example




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[UnixGirl]

OK, that makes sense my Linux is version 9 probably not supported.

[UnixGirl]

How do I assign points? thanks

[danielzt]

I found a solution!

I had to change the number of virtual processors to only 1 and it worked fine... Makes no sense but...

[IamTHEvilONE]

Does the ESXi host show a license for vSMP? If not, you cannot power on the helper VM with more than 1 vCPU.

Alternately, just make a blank VM (no OS) with 2vCPU and see if it powers on. If this is true, then that's the actual cause.

Regards,

Jonathan

B.Sc., RHCT, VMware vExpert 2009

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