'not enough disk space for agent install' when plenty of space avail

[hatfield]

I've been waiting to try to P2V a win2k server after the older betas failed. Trying today with v3 it was failing on installing the converter agent on a remote box. With no real info to go on in the logs I manually copied the VMWare Converter.msi to run it local to see if it would give me any more information, I'm greeted with this:

"The C: drive does not have enough disk space to copy the temporary files from the installer. Please free up at least 120 MG of disk space on your C: drive, then restart the installer."

The drive shows 32.0GB of 37.2GB free so I'm assuming there is a problem with the space check...

The P2V target is Win2k Server, fully patched.

[continuum]

so I'm assuming there is a problem with the space check...

look for write permissions in %temp% also

[alfster73]

I had this same issue with my Windows XP machine.

I changed the paging file size to be determined by the system, previously I had manually set a paging file size.

I don't know if this would be related or not, but after changing I was able to install the application.

Alfster73

[hatfield]

Oddly enough, resizing the pagefile did it, it was set to vary between ~750-1536, I made it fixed size at 1536 and it's running... now to go get around the scsiport.sys message it's throwing at me.

Thanks everyone.

[Liz]

Hmm whats with the "120MG" anyway?

well

Ive just hit this on my XP64 machine, with 112gb free..

and setting my page file to 4096 (which was the size it picked as max)

hasnt helped.

[UliF]

Installing VMware Converter 3.0 from my download directory on drive E: I had the same problem. I moved the installer file to a temporary directory on drive C: and installed VMware Converter without problems.

[pyonke]

I also had the same problem. 28gb free and the suggestions above did not help. I created a temp directory and filled it with about 1.5 gig of data. I was then able to run the install.

[bluescreen]

I just hit this on a Win2K3 Server with 20GB free on C:\. As suggested, I set the page file to be the value of the suggested max and tried again. All better. Odd.

[JeffStory]

Same story here.. Increase the page file, reboot , and it installs just fine..

[tchansen]

I tried all of the above solutions, none worked. Finally, in a moment of desperation, I disabled the page file completely and rebooted.

That worked fine. I have a GIG of memory so it wasn't a problem running XP that way.

Someone needs to fix this or disable the free space check in future versions.

[Gene_H]

I had the same issue.

Installing VM converter (Enterprise addition) on a WinXP vm guest.

I had to change the page file settings to "System Managed Page File" and then reboot the WinXP before it would get bast the 'not enough disk space for agent' error message.

I also had pleanty of free space on my "C" dirve.

[MoonDancer2007]

Hi there,

after reading all posts about that problem, i tried this:

1. I copied the Setup-Package to "c:\windows\temp".

2. I started the setup.

--> had no problems anymore^^

[crimmel]

This seems a bit ridiculous to me but, after it failed to run from either the %TEMP% folder or the c:\Windows\Downloaded Installation Files folder, I eliminated my 24 GB page file, rebooted and it installed fine.

Someone does need to fix this installer.

[EdP2]

Eliminating the page file worked for me too. The disk space check byte-size obviously needs to be increased. If reducing the page size does not work for you, then try reducing it in fractions of a gigabyte.

I agree this needs an urgent fix. It makes the program look amateurish - which it isn't!

[theanykey]

For those using converter 3.0.2 you may find this error still

The quickest resolution is to disable the pagefile, restart, install, re-enable the pagefile, restart, run converter

[Todd_Madison]

I was unable to install from C:\temp or C:\windows\temp, however when I went to %temp% from the run command it sent me to:

C:\DOCUME_{1\tmadison\LOCALS}1\Temp\1

I copied and executed the installer from this location and it worked without having to adjust the pagefile settings.

[chukarma]

I had this same problem when trying to convert a Windows NT SP4 server. The problem was that the C:\Temp directory was not created. The environment path for the temp directory was c:\winnt\temp.

In short, the resolution is MAKE SURE you have a c:\temp directory. That is what the convert is installing the temp files in.

Hope that helps,

Daniel