Hi,
my Environment: Virtual Center 2.5U1 installed on a physical GERMAN Windows 20003 Server (the Server is slso DC!!), 6 ESX Hosts ESX 3.0.2U1 --> ESX 3.5
When i try to import a machine with the VCS Converter Plugin i get this Error message: Unknown error generated from client (catchall)
I have read this thred: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/119447 but it is no solution for me.
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http://communities.vmware.com/thread/119447
This issue is due to the ASCII to UTF-8 string conversion in the following fields:
Annotation
Display name
Floppy image name
Parallel port file name
Serial port file name
CDROM iso name
These fields are may not contain any non standard Engish ASCII characters. (Any other than ASCII 33-127)
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I dont find any non standard english ASCII characters.
This is the log from the client:
Log for VMware Converter Enterprise Client, pid=5556, version=4.0.0, build=build-82698, option=Release, section=2
Current working directory: C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\Virtual Infrastructure Client\Plugins\Converter Enterprise
HOSTINFO: Seeing Intel CPU, numCoresPerCPU 2 numThreadsPerCore 1.
HOSTINFO: This machine has 1 physical CPUS, 2 total cores, and 2 logical CPUs.
Using system libcrypto, version 90709F
Vmacore::InitSSL: doVersionCheck = true, handshakeTimeoutUs = 120000000
Making sure that UFAD interface has version vmware-converter-4.0.0
SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStore: Subject mismatch: VMware vs 192.168.192.14
SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStore: The remote host certificate has these problems:
The host name used for the connection does not match the subject name on the host certificate
A certificate in the host's chain is based on an untrusted root.
SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStore: Certificate verification is disabled, so connection will proceed despite the error
UFAD interface version is vmware-converter-4.0.0
Connecting to host sscs-vc on port 443 using protocol https
SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStore: Subject mismatch: VMware vs sscs-vc
SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStore: The remote host certificate has these problems:
The host name used for the connection does not match the subject name on the host certificate
A certificate in the host's chain is based on an untrusted root.
SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStore: Certificate verification is disabled, so connection will proceed despite the error
Task failed: at line number 10, not well-formed (invalid token)
Somebody know a good way to find the solution??
Thanks
activeX
First off, you should re-think your strategies for converting a DC.
Do not attempt to convert a Windows operating system that is currently functioning as a domain controller. Domain controllers are extremely sensitive to hardware changes and the virtual hardware presented to a virtual machine is different from the physical hardware presented to a physical machine. A virtual machine created from an active domain controller may exhibit unexpected behavior.
VMware recommends removing a domain controller from its domain controller role, virtualizing it, then put the resulting virtual machine back into its domain controller role again.
The "invalid token" is specific to non-English characters in the annotation field not being translated into UTF-8 before conversion. If you are absolutely certain this is fine, I would also check ALL the environment variables as well.