VMWare Converter 4.01. build 161434 fails to convert running WinXP at 90%

[LukasPS]

Hello

I tried to convert from a running Win XP and get the Status: "FAILED: A system error encounteres during an operation".

I made a chkdsk /f on the targed and on the soure disk. Both are ok!

I tried to minimalize my system with msconfig.exe (i choosed diagnostic mode and i only activated the vmware services and made a reboot)

the conversion process unfortunately didn' t changed.

vm-ware-converter-agent-9.log:

Fist some fragments in the starting procedure

:

VimConnectionStore stopping keepalive

Scheduled timer canceled, StopKeepAlive succeeds

Already Exists

User agent is 'VMware-client/4.0.0'

HTTP Response: Client: NeedsContentLength: false UnderstandsChunking: true CanKeepAlive: true (PresetContentLength -1)

:

Partition:Invalid sector magic number.

Disk number 1 has been skipped because of errors while reading partition table

Partition:Invalid sector magic number.

Disk number 1 has been skipped because of errors while reading dynamic disks header or LDM database is corrupted

Partition:Invalid sector magic number.

Partition:Invalid sector magic number.

Partition:Invalid sector magic number.

Partition:Invalid sector magic number.

Partitioning disk 0

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....Creating MBR Partition Table ....

..... Partition Entry: 0 .....

.....Current Partition Offset 0: .....

.....Current Partition Offset 0: .....

...Boot Indicator: 0X80

...Partition Type Id 0X7

...Starting Head 1

...Starting Sector 1

...Starting Cylinder 0

...Ending Head 15

...Ending Sector 63

...Ending Cylinder 1023

...Relative Sectors 63

...Total Sectors 312576705

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Partition 0: offset: 0

Scheduling cloning from source volume
?\Volume{71a23312-f9af-11dd-8f30-806d6172696f}\ to destination disk 0 partition 1:

:

Block-level volume cloning options: (converter.agent.internal.VolumeBlockCloningOptions) {

dynamicType = <unset>,

skipPageFiles = true,

skipBadBlocks = true,

skipSystemRestore = true,

compareTargetToSource = false,

skipZeroSectors = true,

expandFileSystem = true,

finalPass = true,

useDirtyBitmap = false,

}

HTTP Response: Complete (processed 938 bytes)

User agent is 'VMware-client/4.0.0'

HTTP Response: Client: NeedsContentLength: false UnderstandsChunking: true CanKeepAlive: true (PresetContentLength -1)

Unable to get source volume cluster info 87 Will NOT attempt to skip over unused clusters

Unable to get bad blocks extents for
?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1\. Error: 87

For step 0 stepSkipUnusedClusters = 0

ConvertTask updates, state: 1, percentage: 1, xfer rate (Bps): <unknown>

RecordOp ASSIGN: info, task-1

Cloning progress changed 1

ConvertTask updates, state: 1, percentage: 1, xfer rate (Bps): 16066712

RecordOp ASSIGN: info, task-1

HTTP Response: Complete (processed 1166 bytes)

User agent is 'VMware-client/4.0.0'

HTTP Response: Client: NeedsContentLength: false UnderstandsChunking: true CanKeepAlive: true (PresetContentLength -1)

Mutch more later some logfragments befor the process failes (more than 2 hours later...)

DISKLIB-SPARSE: "E:\Schluecl_Bkp\vm_schluecl\target.vmdk" 😘 _failed to grow disk: There i[2009-10-28 17:55:28.874 02080 verbose 'App'] DISKLIB-LIB : RWv failed ioId: #232845 (7340041) (9) .

Error 117440657 writing to the destination volume

BackgroundWriter::ThreadFunc: write failed.

My source system has following memory:

61 GB used Memory

87,5 GB free memory

My external disk (connected via usb) has following memory:

90,6GB used memory

142 GB free memory

My question is, why are 142 GB free memory mot enough for generating a virtual machine of 61GB.

Do i need factor3 more mem than the source for example?

I checked the source and targed disk for bad blocks, both disks are ok!

Can anybody give me a hint?

Thanks ... lukas*

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[continuum]

are you trying to store the new VM on fat32 ?

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[LukasPS]

Hello

No, its NTFS on my external usb- disk!

Do you know how mutch free memory space should be available for converting a 150GB disk (on which only 61GB are used) ?

I strongly assume, this could be the reason for my problem. because the last log lines (strange formatted in my previous post, i try without formatiing)

vmware-converter-agent-9.log:

2009-10-28 17:55:28.874 02080 verbose 'App' ,0 DISKLIB-SPARSE: "E:\Schluecl_Bkp\target.vmdk" : failed to grow disk: There is not enough space on the disk (28674).

2009-10-28 17:55:28.874 02080 verbose 'App' ,0 DISKLIB-LIB : RWv failed ioId: #232845 (7340041) (9) .

2009-10-28 17:55:28.874 02080 error 'App' blockLevelVolumeCloningTaskImpl,1195] Error 117440657 writing to the destination volume

2009-10-28 17:55:28.874 02080 error 'App' BackgroundWriter,297 BackgroundWriter::ThreadFunc: write failed.

maybe there is a restriction.

if yes, a message of the VMWare Converter-software related to the memory situation would be nice!

Do you know how mutch free memory space should be available for converting a 150GB disk (on which only 61GB are used) ?