I got an virtual Windows XP. Originally created on VMWare Server and had since then been on an USB-drive with an consultant who has been using it with VMWare Player. I got the USB-drive back, and now want to import the machine to our ESX 4.0 cluster.
I tried to use the VMWare Convert ("import machine") from vCenter Server, but it fails and the logs says
2009-10-20 09:49:32.000 'App' 3128 info DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Failed to open extents for descriptor file in normal mode
2009-10-20 09:49:32.000 'App' 3128 info DISKLIB-LINK : "
dator071\f$\VMware\VM01\XP Utveckling_2.vmdk" : failed to open (The specified feature isn't supported by this version).
2009-10-20 09:49:32.000 'App' 3148 error Opening
dator071\f$\VMware\VM01\XP Utveckling_2.vmdk failed with error24
2009-10-20 09:49:32.000 'App' 3128 info DISKLIB-CHAIN : "
dator071\f$\VMware\VM01\XP Utveckling_2.vmdk" : failed to open (The specified feature isn't supported by this version).
2009-10-20 09:49:32.000 'App' 3128 info DISKLIB-LIB : Failed to open '
dator071\f$\VMware\VM01\XP Utveckling_2.vmdk' with flags 0xe (The specified feature isn't supported by this version).
2009-10-20 09:49:32.141 'Locale' 3148 warning Default resource used for 'FileOpenError.summary' expected in module 'fault'.
Anyway. I tried to open the machine with VMWare Workstation instead to maybe convert it, and it says it's a "version 5.x"-machine. But if I try to use the "change/upgrade"-version wizard the "ESX compatible" checkbox is greyed out (doesn't matter what version I choose).
Is there anyway to make this machine ESX compatible so I can import it to ESX 4.0?
I would perfer to do an "offline" convertion, because this virtual machine got no network card.
The only hardware I see in VMWare workstation is 2 x CPU, 4 x Hard Drive (SCSI) and 1 GB of RAM.
Sorry for my spelling/grammar (I'm Swedish).
