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ankitfsl
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Migration from XEN to Vmware ESXi4.1

Hi All,

Right now i am having 4 Machines running on XEN Hypervisor.Now i want to migrate to VMware ESXi 4.1.For that i am using vmware Vcenter converter standalone 4.3.0.But some how its now working it took all the info & making the VM up in vcenter but stuck on converter.helper login prompt.

Can any one let me know the issue or any other mothod to Migrate XEN VM to Vmware.

Regards

Ankit

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maishsk
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It seems that your helper VM is waiting for an IP - which by default should be provided by DHCP.

If you want need to provide a static to your VM, then you will have to set that IP during the conversion process.

Here is a screenshot of where that should be done.

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