Hi,
I am trying to P2V a couple of Ubuntu server using the Converter Standalone client 5.1. I have tried to enable sudo to not use passwords, as described in the following KB article VMware KB: Enabling the use of a non-root user for hot cloning of a Linux source machine
I have also tried to just enable the password for the root user per this posting.
All with no luck. I have attached the worker log and the server log. It looks like the ubutu server may be activly killing my connection. Any thoughts?
So I was able to figure out what was happening. During the Starting to clone the volume mounted on '/' from IPADDRESS stage, the converter would start to convert the disk.
At some point the network interface would drop. I do not know why. The work around is to go onto the physical machine that you are trying to P2V and run the following commands.
sudo ifdown -a
This shuts down all network interfaces
sudo ifup -a
This starts up all network interfaces
Once this is done the P2V will continue. This was a weird glitch, but I am glad I was able to figure it out. I hope I save someone else several hours of troubleshooting!
Update. So I was able to finally start the migration. There appears to be some sort of IP block list that my P2V machine got on internal to the ubuntu machine. I figured this out by trying to SSH to the machine from the P2V machine which failed, but then I tried it from another machine and it succeeded. So I changed the IP address and I am now able to start the P2V process.
My issue now is that while I am converting over the virtual disk it appears to hang. I have tried this 2 times and it hangs in different points but with the same error message on the worker log.
2013-06-13T10:22:09.556-05:00 [02688 error 'Ufa.HTTPService'] Failed to read request; stream: <io_obj p:0x01087364, h:-1, <pipe '\\.\pipe\vmware-converter-worker-soap'>, <pipe '\\.\pipe\vmware-converter-worker-soap'>>, error: class Vmacore::TimeoutException(Operation timed out)
Once it hung at 44.% and the next time it only made it to 25%. It looks like it is having problems with the stream of data. Any help is really appreciated. I have added the worker logs to this issue.
So I was able to figure out what was happening. During the Starting to clone the volume mounted on '/' from IPADDRESS stage, the converter would start to convert the disk.
At some point the network interface would drop. I do not know why. The work around is to go onto the physical machine that you are trying to P2V and run the following commands.
sudo ifdown -a
This shuts down all network interfaces
sudo ifup -a
This starts up all network interfaces
Once this is done the P2V will continue. This was a weird glitch, but I am glad I was able to figure it out. I hope I save someone else several hours of troubleshooting!
Looks like a network drop, the Converter can not recover from such network issues.
In my situation, it's not a network drop or IP block.
I'm using Standalone Converter 5.1
I'm converting Ubuntu 10.04
On the Converter console, the Ubuntu 10.04 would hang at 1% and fail.
Hangs at message: "Connecting to the Converter helper server on the destination virtual machine."
During the conversion process, it hangs at 1%.
I logon to Ubuntu console and issue the commands suggested from TdisalvoOrinoco.
sudo ifdown -a
This shuts down all network interfaces
sudo ifup -a
This starts up all network interfaces
The Converter continued until it completed. The Converter can recover when Ubuntu stop/start the network interface.
The Converter shouldn't hang on Ubuntu at 1%, maybe it's a bug.
Hope this helps someone else.