cannot configure the source image

[macarranza]

I am trying to perform a P2V from a HP Lp200r server with 2 x 18gb physical disks (Operating system: Windows 2000 SP4). Both disks are mirrored via windows...and have 2 partitions: the boot drive (C:) and the hp EISA partition.

When running converter 3 from I get the message:

cannot configure the source image

The machine is succesfully migrated. However, after turning the VM on, I get a PXE boot, and the the "operating system not found" error.

Is this related to the fact that the disk is mirrored?

Miguel

[esiebert7625 · Accepted solution]

Thats correct, you need to break the OS mirroring before running converter. Hardware mirroring is transparent to the operating system and has no problems.

See this thread...

http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=582100&#582100

Also the best practice guide on my website...

http://vmware-land.com/Converter.html

fyi...if you find this post helpful, please award points using the Helpful/Correct buttons....thanks

[i4004]

I get the same error on a non-mirrored host. We have a web server running on a Del 1550 in a non-RAID (as in no RAID1, 3,5,01,10) and I get the "cannot configure source image" every time.

Trying to workit out with VMware technical support now.

/gjr

[i4004]

Check that...the system was indeed mirrored at the OS level. This error presents itself with VMWare Converter and local software RAID - so if your running a local SW mirror; you need to break it to migrate the machine to VM space within ESX.

Gerson Ricardo

[enicon]

I got the same error on a windows 2000 as server, possibly due to the boot.ini. To virtualize it I did:

- convert the phisical machine to a workstation virtual machine without reconfiguring

- mounted the vmdk with vmware workstation

- edit boot.ini and changed the boot paths from signature(xxx) to multi(0)

- converted the workstation vm to infrastructure, then I was allowed reconfiguring.

Without the manual modification of boot.ini the vm would not boot in esx.