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Gonzouk
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Enthusiast

Physical to virtual server never converts

Hi,

We have an old Windows 2000 server that no one has ever managed to P to V.  I have managed to P to V nearly 40 servers which are mostly Windows 2003 and only about Windows 2000 servers, but all were fine.  I've installed the 4.0.1 converter locally on this Windows 2000 Dell server and have tried to convert while logged in as the domain account or the local account and neither works it just gets stuck on the "receiveing source machine  information" then times out, I can't do it from vCenter either as I get a 1,03 error.

Log

[2012-03-24 07:32:51.508 04364 info 'ServerLoginSession'] Logging in to Converter Server (Using Impersonate).
[2012-03-24 07:32:51.586 04364 info 'ServerLoginSession'] Converter Server session established. (Session ID = "8BB0D227-FCA7-4A60-A0EC-4D3154FEE754")
[2012-03-24 07:32:52.289 04364 error 'App'] SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildFilter 3rd party type microsoftVirtualPCVM not found
[2012-03-24 07:32:52.289 04364 error 'App'] SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildFilter 3rd party type parallelsVM not found
[2012-03-24 07:32:52.289 04364 error 'App'] SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildFilter 3rd party type vmwareVCBBackup not found
[2012-03-24 07:32:52.289 04364 error 'App'] SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildFilter 3rd party type livestateBackup not found
[2012-03-24 07:32:52.289 04364 error 'App'] SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildFilter 3rd party type shadowProtectBackup not found
[2012-03-24 07:32:52.289 04364 error 'App'] SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildFilter 3rd party type acronisBackup not found
[2012-03-24 07:32:52.289 04364 error 'App'] SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildFilter 3rd party type vmwareVM not found
[2012-03-24 07:32:52.289 04364 error 'App'] SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildThirdpartyHostedExtVector 3rd party type vmwareVM not found
[2012-03-24 07:42:46.965 04364 verbose 'ConverterFrontEnd'] Keep alive signal sent at: 2012-03-24 07:42:46.965
[2012-03-24 07:52:46.968 04364 verbose 'ConverterFrontEnd'] Keep alive signal sent at: 2012-03-24 07:52:46.968
[2012-03-24 08:02:46.972 04364 verbose 'ConverterFrontEnd'] Keep alive signal sent at: 2012-03-24 08:02:46.972
[2012-03-24 08:02:47.394 06780 verbose 'ConverterImpl'] ConverterImpl::TaskCollectorThread: TimeoutException
[2012-03-24 08:02:57.394 06780 verbose 'ConverterImpl'] PropertyCollector::WaitForUpdates[1]
(vmodl.query.PropertyCollector.UpdateSet) {
   dynamicType = <unset>,
   version = "1",
}
[2012-03-24 08:12:46.953 04364 verbose 'ConverterFrontEnd'] Keep alive signal sent at: 2012-03-24 08:12:46.953
[2012-03-24 08:22:46.957 04364 verbose 'ConverterFrontEnd'] Keep alive signal sent at: 2012-03-24 08:22:46.957
[2012-03-24 08:32:46.960 04364 verbose 'ConverterFrontEnd'] Keep alive signal sent at: 2012-03-24 08:32:46.960
[2012-03-24 08:32:57.398 06780 verbose 'ConverterImpl'] ConverterImpl::TaskCollectorThread: TimeoutException
[2012-03-24 08:33:01.023 04364 error 'SourceSelect'] Exception during async task run: Operation timed out
[2012-03-24 08:42:46.980 04364 verbose 'ConverterFrontEnd'] Keep alive signal sent at: 2012-03-24 08:42:46.980
[2012-03-24 08:52:46.984 04364 verbose 'ConverterFrontEnd'] Keep alive signal sent at: 2012-03-24 08:52:46.984
[2012-03-24 09:02:46.988 04364 verbose 'ConverterFrontEnd'] Keep alive signal sent at: 2012-03-24 09:02:46.988
[2012-03-24 09:12:46.991 04364 verbose 'ConverterFrontEnd'] Keep alive signal sent at: 2012-03-24 09:12:46.991
[2012-03-24 09:22:46.995 04364 verbose 'ConverterFrontEnd'] Keep alive signal sent at: 2012-03-24 09:22:46.995
[2012-03-24 09:32:46.999 04364 verbose 'ConverterFrontEnd'] Keep alive signal sent at: 2012-03-24 09:32:46.999
[2012-03-24 09:42:47.003 04364 verbose 'ConverterFrontEnd'] Keep alive signal sent at: 2012-03-24 09:42:47.003
[2012-03-24 09:44:22.144 04364 info 'ServerLoginSession'] Logging out of the Converter Server. (Session ID = "8BB0D227-FCA7-4A60-A0EC-4D3154FEE754")
[2012-03-24 09:47:59.442 04364 info 'BaseServerConnection'] Connecting to server on pipeName \\.\pipe\vmware-converter-server-soap.
SSL:false
Path:/converter/sdk
VMODL version:converter.version.version1

[2012-03-24 09:47:59.442 04364 info 'BaseServerConnection'] NOT using SSL to connect to VMOMI server \\.\pipe\vmware-converter-server-soap
[2012-03-24 09:47:59.442 04364 info 'ConverterServerConnPipe'] Getting ServiceInstance contents

Any ideas, where I can even start on this?

Thanks

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2 Replies
POCEH
VMware Employee
VMware Employee

This is UI log, not very useful in this situation, upload log bundle for investigation.

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continuum
Immortal
Immortal

for Windows 2000 I would use Converter 3.0.3 and nothing else
and if that fails you can still use a Linux LiveCD and dd the drive to import-flat.vmdk - and then use Converter to patch the drivers in a second step


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Do you need support with a VMFS recovery problem ? - send a message via skype "sanbarrow"
I do not support Workstation 16 at this time ...

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