VMware Vcenter converter

[frankneps]

Hello,

I installed the software Vcenter converter in German on a Windows 7 Pro (64 bit) computer with 8 GB RAM and plenty of disk space.

I'd like to convert an existing Linux server (Ubuntu server 12.04, nearly production environment) into a virtual machine. I'd like to "play" with that VM using VMWare player on a different Windows machine in a test environment.

However, in the German version of the converter, the following error message appears:  "Die Berechtigung zur Durchführung des Vorgangs wurde verweigert". Which means roughly translated: "the permission to perform that was rejected."

I specified the Linux machine with the IP address, gave the root user and the respective password. I can access that machine via putty with root and that password via port 22, I checked that several times.

What could be the problem???

Thank you in advance and best regards,

Frank

[admin]

What version of Converter are you using?

Have a look on this KB. VMware KB: Troubleshooting checklist for VMware Converter

Look under Linux troubleshooting. If this fails, start checking the log files. The location for log files are also mentioned in this KB.

\Ibrar

[rcporto · Accepted solution]

Try opening VMware Converter using the option "Run as administrator" 🙂

[frankneps]

Hello,

thank you very much, I could have come to this thought myself, sorry 🙂

Hope my next question is not that short-sighted 🙂

Can I convert a physical linux system to a virtual machine image file without having VMware ESX running? I'd like to

- generate a virtual disk image file on a Windows machine (destination)

- source machine is Linux (Ubuntu 12.04 server)

- on the destination system there's no ESX server (just VMWare Player)

I'd like to transfer the file image to a different machine to a test environment. I thought I could create the disk image file on a Windows machine here and then transfer that file(s) to the test environment. But I get an error message when I specify the destination. It says:   "fault: NoHostConnection.Summary" As destination I specified the local (Windows) computer, where the disk image should be temporarily stored. The user that I specified has administrative rights. I specified the destination as "localhost" and as the IP address, but both do not work.

The version of the converter is 5.5.1  (freshly downloaded)

I think my main question is: does the destination machine have to be an ESX server or can I just do the cloning, later transfer the file to a virtual environment and use the cloned physical computer later in the virtual environment?

Thank you very much, best regards,

Frank

[frankneps]

I think I found the answer in the documentation:

"Converter Standalone supports conversion of Linux sources only to managed destinations."

And VMWare Player does not seem to be a "managed destination".