Hi,
Maybe somebody can advise what to do.
I am very new to VM ware, just downloaded a free converter.
Trying to create a VM of my laptop XP Pro (SP2). Created a share on another desktop machine and specified it as a target.
The target machine is Vista Ultimate 64 bit. >200 Gig drive. Source machine has 80 Gig drive. I haven't installed anything on the target machine yet.
The convertor is installed on the physical machine and about 80 gig file was created on the target machine. It failed when it was doing cloning.
I kept working on the source machine maybe that was the problem?
The conversion worked for many hours and then stopped, I found this in the log file:
Task failed: P2VError UNKNOWN_METHOD_FAULT(sysimage.fault.PlatformError)
Thank you,
Midav
Maybe I am doing something wrong or what is the problem and solution.
Please post the vmware-converter-#.log file. This will contain the specific errors needed to explain what happened.
Thank you, here is the log file contents:
Log for VMware Converter Client, pid=4052, version=3.0.2, build=build-59994, option=Release, section=2
Current working directory: C:\Documents and Settings\vadim.VADIM-B102F96FF\Desktop
HOSTINFO: Seeing Intel CPU, numCoresPerCPU 1 numThreadsPerCore 2.
HOSTINFO: This machine has 1 physical CPUS, 1 total cores, and 2 logical CPUs.
Vmacore::InitSSL: doVersionCheck = true, handshakeTimeoutUs = 120000000
This product Hard Expires: false
Deserializing the job manager's state
Transition from None to InProgress requested
License job init with license file: C:\Documents and Settings\vadim.VADIM-B102F96FF\Application Data\VMware\p2vlcns
Deserializing the individual jobs from C:\Documents and Settings\vadim.VADIM-B102F96FF\Application Data\VMware\p2v30\jobs
Archive file: C:\Documents and Settings\vadim.VADIM-B102F96FF\Application Data\VMware\p2v30\jobs\00000001.xml
Job 1 changing state from -1 to 4
Job 1 changing state from 4 to 5
Transition from InProgress to Success requested
Raising deserialization done event (7)
License job init with license file: C:\Documents and Settings\vadim.VADIM-B102F96FF\Application Data\VMware\p2vlcns
Removing archive file for job 1
Removing file C:/Documents and Settings/vadim.VADIM-B102F96FF/Application Data/VMware/p2v30/jobs/00000001.xml
License job init with license file: C:\Documents and Settings\vadim.VADIM-B102F96FF\Application Data\VMware\p2vlcns
Transition from None to InProgress requested
Connecting to
.\pipe\vmware-ufad-p2v30-vmdb, use SSL: true
Successfully connected to
.\pipe\vmware-ufad-p2v30-vmdb
Unsetting unknown path: /vmomi/
Making sure that UFAD interface has version vmware-ufad-p2v30-build-59994
UFAD interface version is vmware-ufad-p2v30-build-59994
Transition from InProgress to Success requested
Transition from None to InProgress requested
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 Remote task VmiQuerySourceInfoTask::task completed
Waiting for updates from VmiQuerySourceInfoTask::task Got an update from VmiQuerySourceInfoTask::task
Cleaning up remote task VmiQuerySourceInfoTask::task Disposing task wrapper for task VmiQuerySourceInfoTask::task
Transition from InProgress to Success requested
License job init with license file: C:\Documents and Settings\vadim.VADIM-B102F96FF\Application Data\VMware\p2vlcns
License job init with license file: C:\Documents and Settings\vadim.VADIM-B102F96FF\Application Data\VMware\p2vlcns
Transition from None to InProgress requested
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 Remote task VmiCheckDestAvailableTask::task completed
Waiting for updates from VmiCheckDestAvailableTask::task Got an update from VmiCheckDestAvailableTask::task
Cleaning up remote task VmiCheckDestAvailableTask::task Disposing task wrapper for task VmiCheckDestAvailableTask::task
Transition from InProgress to Success requested
Transition from None to InProgress requested
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 Remote task VmiGetDiskSizesTask::task completed
Waiting for updates from VmiGetDiskSizesTask::task Got an update from VmiGetDiskSizesTask::task
Cleaning up remote task VmiGetDiskSizesTask::task Disposing task wrapper for task VmiGetDiskSizesTask::task
Transition from InProgress to Success requested
Transition from None to InProgress requested
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 Remote task VmiCheckDestParamsTask::task completed
Waiting for updates from VmiCheckDestParamsTask::task Got an update from VmiCheckDestParamsTask::task
Cleaning up remote task VmiCheckDestParamsTask::task Disposing task wrapper for task VmiCheckDestParamsTask::task
Transition from InProgress to Success requested
Serializing the job manager's state
Job 2 changing state from -1 to 0
Starting job 2 as 1/1 running job
Job 2 changing state from 0 to 1
Transition from None to InProgress requested
Archiving job to C:\Documents and Settings\vadim.VADIM-B102F96FF\Application Data\VMware\p2v30\jobs\00000002.xml
Archiving job to C:\Documents and Settings\vadim.VADIM-B102F96FF\Application Data\VMware\p2v30\jobs\00000002.xml
Connecting to
.\pipe\vmware-ufad-p2v30-vmdb, use SSL: true
Successfully connected to
.\pipe\vmware-ufad-p2v30-vmdb
Unsetting unknown path: /vmomi/
Making sure that UFAD interface has version vmware-ufad-p2v30-build-59994
UFAD interface version is vmware-ufad-p2v30-build-59994
Transition from InProgress to Success requested
UFA session created successfully
Transition from None to InProgress requested
Archiving job to C:\Documents and Settings\vadim.VADIM-B102F96FF\Application Data\VMware\p2v30\jobs\00000002.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 2 Waiting for updates from VmiImportTask::task
(Re)Start waiting for property updates from VmiImportTask::task Got an update from 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 2 Waiting for updates from VmiImportTask::task
(Re)Start waiting for property updates from VmiImportTask::task Got an update from VmiImportTask::task
Waiting for updates from VmiImportTask::task (Re)Start waiting for property updates from VmiImportTask::task
Got an update from VmiImportTask::task Waiting for updates from VmiImportTask::task
(Re)Start waiting for property updates from VmiImportTask::task Got an update from VmiImportTask::task
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Got an update from VmiImportTask::task Waiting for updates from VmiImportTask::task
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Waiting for updates from VmiImportTask::task (Re)Start waiting for property updates from VmiImportTask::task
Remote task VmiImportTask::task completed Waiting for updates from VmiImportTask::task
Got an update from VmiImportTask::task Cleaning up remote task VmiImportTask::task
Disposing task wrapper for task VmiImportTask::task
Task failed: P2VError UNKNOWN_METHOD_FAULT(sysimage.fault.PlatformError)
Transition from InProgress to Failure requested
Job 2 changing state from 1 to 2
Archiving job to C:\Documents and Settings\vadim.VADIM-B102F96FF\Application Data\VMware\p2v30\jobs\00000002.xml
License job init with license file: C:\Documents and Settings\vadim.VADIM-B102F96FF\Application Data\VMware\p2vlcns
Unfortunately this is client log and not the agent log:
Log for VMware Converter Client
The file you need to "attach" (not copy/paste) is the vmware-converter-#.log file - if you are running converter remotely, you will need to grab it from the physical machine manually.
I am having the same problem using 3.0.2u1 build 62456 on WinXP pro doing a local conversion. As far as I can tell, there is no converter log. just client logs. I've seen this problem in a few other forum posts. There was some hint that perhaps having various services or antivirus things running would be a problem. I'll try to go on a rampage closing these down but its a bit hard to figure out without more info.
I think I found converter logs but they are stored only for the last 5 incidents and then overwritten, what I mean is that each time I restart my machine one of the logs is overwritten and there is only history of 5 allowed.
So by the time I could post my log that was already overwritten. My conversion ran for hours OK, before finally failing, so whenever I have time I'll try again. And I don't have any anti-virus software at all.