Please help - Unable to convert while power on, but not actually on

[klittrell]

Please help:

I am trying to convert a VMWare Server 1.0.1 VM to an ESX 3.5 VM. The VM has been safely turned off but I am still getting the message "unable to convert a virtual machine while it is powered on or suspended. Shut down or power off the virtual machine before converting it."

I has started it back up and shut it back down again with the same results. Please help.

Sincerely,

Kevin Littrell

[asatoran]

Are there any .lck files in the VM's folder? Try removing them and running the conversion again.

[amslife]

Or lock subfolders.

[Kabuto]

I also ran into this problem VMWare converter 3.0.3 build 89816 trying to convert a

Windows XP sp 2 machine that was fully updated with all microsoft patches current to July 14, 2008.

The machine was originally created on: Virtual Server 1.0.4 build 56528 for windows XP.

VMTools were installed on the guest OS.

The error read:

"Unable to convert a virtual machine while it is powered on or suspended. Shut down or power off the virtual machine before converting it"

I restarted the virtual machine and then powered it down from inside the OS, but that did not resolve the error.

SOLUTION: It appears that using snapshots caused the error.

I powered up the virtual machine and took a current snapshot.

Then powered down and in virtual server, set to disable snapshots.

Now the machine can be converted to add to a VI3 server.