This went better than i expected, i downloaded converter 5.5.1 and it went smoothly, no reconfiguration needed, it installs GRUB, patch the mount point entries in fstab and recreate the initial ramdisk (all automatically).
Well done VMWare.
Note: Discussion successfully moved from VMware ESXi 5 to VMware Converter Standalone
https://communities.vmware.com/message/2385283#2385283 could be your start point and similar issue: https://communities.vmware.com/message/2326157#2326157 HTH
Thanks will have a look and update the post.
This went better than i expected, i downloaded converter 5.5.1 and it went smoothly, no reconfiguration needed, it installs GRUB, patch the mount point entries in fstab and recreate the initial ramdisk (all automatically).
Well done VMWare.