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jklcom99
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How to regenerate self-signed certificate?

Hi,

I'm trying to hot clone a machine that is running windows xp in ESXi .

I'm not sure if the it was a problem with the certificate.

The cloning process failed at task(7) with the following error

Task failed: P2VError UNKNOWN_METHOD_FAULT(sysimage.fault.PlatformError)

Please see attached log file for more detail.

My questions are:

1) How to regenerate certificate in ESXi 4.0?

2) What is causing the cloning process to fail?

Thank you

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AndreTheGiant
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1) How to regenerate certificate in ESXi 4.0?

2) What is causing the cloning process to fail?

The certificate is only a warning.

You must post the complete log message of the converter and give more info on what is the source (it's running on a Worstation or Server, which version ,...) and the converter version.

PS: have you tried a cold clone with the VM powered off?

The hot clone must be done by installating the conveter into the source machine (in your case the source VM).

Andre

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jklcom99
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I've tried to regen, there is no create_certificates in ESXi 4.0

I maybe using the terminology incorrectly when I said I was doing a hot clone.

I'm using vmware converter 3.0.3 build-89816 to convert a physical machine (Windows XP) to vm which will be hosted on the ESXi server.

The converter is installed on that physical machine.

I have attached the log file in my original post but not sure why the attached log file is not showing up

Here is part of the message:

...

Got an update from VmiImportTask::task Waiting for updates from VmiImportTask::task

(Re)Start waiting for property updates from VmiImportTask::task Got an update from VmiImportTask::task

Waiting for updates from VmiImportTask::task (Re)Start waiting for property updates from VmiImportTask::task

Got an update from VmiImportTask::task Waiting for updates from VmiImportTask::task

(Re)Start waiting for property updates from VmiImportTask::task Got an update from VmiImportTask::task

Waiting for updates from VmiImportTask::task (Re)Start waiting for property updates from VmiImportTask::task

Remote task VmiImportTask::task completed Waiting for updates from VmiImportTask::task

Got an update from VmiImportTask::task Cleaning up remote task VmiImportTask::task

Disposing task wrapper for task VmiImportTask::task

Task failed: P2VError UNKNOWN_METHOD_FAULT(sysimage.fault.PlatformError)

Transition from InProgress to Failure requested

Transition succeeded

Job 1 changing state from 1 to 2

Serializing job 1

Archiving job to C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\VMware\p2v30\jobs\00000001.xml

Raising event 2 for job 1

Raising event 4 for job 1

Raising event 6 for job 1

Shutting down VMDB service...

Unregistering callback...

...done

Thank you

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Dave_Mishchenko
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With ESXi 4.0 you'll want to run /sbin/generate-certificates.sh




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