Dear community,
I am currently trying to migrate around ten machines from VM Workstation 6 over to ESX 3i.
Half of the machines could be imported by using Converter 3.02u1 and choosing "phyical machine" to import the currently running VMs without snapshots.
However there are machines that have up to 10 snapshots in them, i cannot use the "physical machine" option as I'd only get this one last state of the machine.
When I choose "standalone VM" and browse to the vmx i get "Unable to oben file: xxyyzz.vmdk". The machines have SCSI drives as harddisk.
Have you got any hints for me? WinSCP does not work with ESX 3i...
The logs show this:
Log for VMware Converter Client, pid=3024, version=3.0.2u1, build=build-62456, option=Release, section=2
Current working directory: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\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\Administrator\Application Data\VMware\p2vlcns
Deserializing the individual jobs from C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\VMware\p2v30\jobs
Archive file: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\VMware\p2v30\jobs\00000002.xml
Job 2 changing state from -1 to 3
Archive file: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\VMware\p2v30\jobs\00000005.xml
Job 5 changing state from -1 to 3
Archive file: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\VMware\p2v30\jobs\00000006.xml
Job 6 changing state from -1 to 3
Archive file: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\VMware\p2v30\jobs\00000008.xml
Job 8 changing state from -1 to 3
Archive file: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\VMware\p2v30\jobs\00000009.xml
Job 9 changing state from -1 to 3
Archive file: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\VMware\p2v30\jobs\00000010.xml
Job 10 changing state from -1 to 3
Archive file: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\VMware\p2v30\jobs\00000011.xml
Job 11 changing state from -1 to 3
Archive file: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\VMware\p2v30\jobs\00000012.xml
Job 12 changing state from -1 to 3
Transition from InProgress to Success requested
Raising deserialization done event (7)
License job init with license file: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\VMware\p2vlcns
License job init with license file: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\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-62456
UFAD interface version is vmware-ufad-p2v30-build-62456
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
Task failed: P2VError FILE_OPEN_FAILED(D:\vmware\vm_lvtest\Windows XP Bodo 120gb-000007-cl1-000002.vmdk)
Transition from InProgress to Failure requested
Whats the point in having ESX-VMs with ten snapshots ?????
This developers machine has three branches originating from one xp machines into three development projectshe works on. He changes forth and back a lot in those.
I'd like to run the machine on the ESX-Server because it is much more potent than the older Workstation6 machine 8 cores, 16GB from 1core, 4GB.
What about ghosting three branches into 3 new VMs ?
Everybody usually tells you not to use snapshots on ESX
So, there is NO official or inofficial way to import snapshotted machines?
Choosing standalone vm (.vmx) will only provide you a vm of your parent disk.
When you power on your vm, what you see as your current running os is what is used for the resulting vm on ESX.
Currently there is no method for converting the specific snapshots themselves.