vcenter convertor agent - wont start, error 1053

[ukitsupportpixe]

hi all,

so im in the process of migrating my vms of xen to vcenter and so far so good on the linux machines, but windows im getting stuck

i have installed the vcenter convertor agent on the local machine and its installed but i cant get it to start in the services (see pic)

so i then changed this in the reg

also

thanks,

rob

[POCEH]

Unfortunately the worker's logs a more important.

[POCEH]

The timeout exception is nothing with any/helper's memory.

Also - helper iso is for Linux conversions and nothing with Windows conversions.

[ukitsupportpixe]

heres the worker

[ukitsupportpixe]

couple of errors at the bottom of the log -

ERROR 2 opening key mntApi6658894730797151\Objects\{9dea862c-5cdd-4e70-acc1-f32b344d4795}\Elements\12000002

ERROR: Error 2 reading CSDVersion value from key mntApi68987535230797151\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion

ERROR 2 reading SP information

ERROR: Error reading from mntApi84925111230797151\ControlSet001\Services\vmxnet - 2.

ERROR 2 getting vmxnet information, assuming vmxnet is not installed

Error 2 reading 'startType' for .NET CLR Data

Error 2 reading 'Type' for .NET CLR Data

Error 2 reading string/dword value Service from Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase\primary_ide_channel

Error 2 (opening key) saving registry key mntApi95800214930797151\ControlSet001\Services\rhelfltr into \\.\vstor2-mntapi20-shared-27FACF8500004024000000000A000000\Windows\$Reconfig$\mntApi95800214930797151-ControlSet001-Services-rhelfltr-reg

[POCEH]

Ok, your source controller is IDE, why you try to change it? it is not trivial task and result is not runable VM.

2020-02-27T10:06:15.203Z info vmware-converter-worker[09004] [Originator@6876 sub=task-2] Disk: \\.\PhysicalDrive0 has adapter type IDE

2020-02-27T10:06:15.203Z info vmware-converter-worker[09004] [Originator@6876 sub=task-2] Disk: \\.\PhysicalDrive0 has serial QM00001, firmware 0.10.2, model QEMU HARDDISK

So, choose IDE for destination disk controller and try again.

HTH

[POCEH]

Not a real errors, don't breaks reconfiguration and not affects conversion.

[ukitsupportpixe]

right i did another conversion, this time i made the dest vm use IDE

it tries to boot up but goes straight to blue screen

i then went in bios changed the first boot to cd and the 2nd boot to hard drive

i loaded the windows iso and booted from that

once it rebooted i did a system recovery cmd

i made volume 1 active as this is the mbr and volume 2 is windows

also i ran this

bcdboot d:\Windows

still no joy!!!

[POCEH]

Looking again in worker's log I've found that your OS is not configured in standard way for IDE channels and probably you need to do some manual steps.

(Your IDE controller if not standard and need to be changed to the Windows' one somehow). look for Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase\primary_ide_channel and secondary_ide_channel in log

Also you need to google howto do conversion of QEMU HARDDISK to VMDK.

HTH

EDIT:

Probably not worth to remove Microsoft Hyper-V Guest Infrastructure services too.

[ukitsupportpixe]

thanks POCEH!!!!

good how to

https://chariotsolutions.com/blog/post/convert-citrix-xenserver-xva-image-to-kvm/

also as another test i installed fog, captured the source image then deployed it to a new vm and it still failed

https://fogproject.org/download

[POCEH]

I've googled "Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase\primary_ide_channel"  and found a small registry patch for (re)registering IDE adapters, as a wild guess you can try to do this patch in repair console.

HTH

[ukitsupportpixe]

do you mean this POCEH -

https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-users/2009-09/msg00187.html

[POCEH]

Could compare with registry hack for windows vm migration · GitHub

[ukitsupportpixe]

thanks POCEH

i will make a script to add the reg keys

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-edit-registry-using-command-prompt-windows-10

[althafphussain]

Running in elevated mode will fix this issue, since i encountered similar error. Hope this helps!

[ukitsupportpixe]

you mean running the converter in elevated mode?

[POCEH]

Absolutely irrelevant comment!

[ukitsupportpixe]

i imported the reg keys (see attachment named reg)

i then restarted the vm and once restarted i started the conversion on the local machine, i chose IDE for the destination VM

it did it and i have made sure the destination is IDE (see attachment named ide)

but im still getting the blue screen

[POCEH]

What the BSOD code is? Could be happens in other place not for storage controllers...

[ukitsupportpixe]

tbh with you POCEH, i gave up and installed windows again from scratch on the new esxi server

as i spent more time troubleshooting it and in that time i coould had built tens of them lol