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Good Afternoon, I have tried accomplishing this task with the vCenter Converter Standalone itself as well as the "Virtualize a Physical Machine" wizard through Workstation Pro itself.  I have also tried to create the VM from the Workstation host as well as creating the VM from the physical machine to be converted.  I get a different type of error with each way I've tried to do this. For starters, I am trying to virtualize a newer Latitude 9250 with TPM and UEFI (if that matters).  I am doing this (I hope) to prevent having to walk around with multiple machines all the time. In trying to create the VM from the standalone converter on the host, I continually get a failure at 1% of creation of the VM with an error that it was "cannot format volume."  Regardless of what disk controller that I use or how I choose to clone the volumes, that's error that is produced. If I try to use Workstation Pro's wizard, I ended up with a "converter.fault.CredentialsConflictFault" referencing the inability to create a share to write the VM to.  I am using the administrator account for this process.  I also setup a dedicated, administrator account for this process.  That didn't work either.  I also manually created a share for writing the VM files.  That also failed with the same error. Other than the error message windows that appear during these processes, I have been unable to find any sort of information that helps to determine what the actual problem is, or how to solve it.  Does anyone know of a way to debug this process?  I would really like to get this done, but I have no idea what direction to go next.  I have been trying this for days. Thank you in advance for your assistance.  Also... I tried to use Starwind V2V to convert the machine as well, writing to an ESXi box I have in my office, but I received a message from THAT software stating that my license was incorrect for that operation.

Hello Everyone, I have an issue that I have never encountered before, and I am stuck on how to address it. I have a Windows 10 Pro virtual machine running on a Windows 10 Pro host via Workstation Pro 16.  A couple of days ago, an automatic check disk ran and now I have a situation in which 1 vmdk is showing 0 bytes, and another vmdk is completely missing! original.vmdk - good original-000001.vmdk - 0 bytes original-000002.vmdk - good original-000003.vmdk - missing original-000004.vmdk - good I have checked for back-ups, but unfortunately, a certificate was updated on the server side, and my back-up jobs weren't working.  That is obviously another issue... When I first found the problem, the VM would not boot.  I rolled back to a valid snapshot, and now the VM boots.  My problem at this point is that Workstation throws an error anytime I attempt to delete an old snapshot or create a new snapshot.  Since I am certain my vmdks that are either 0 bytes or missing are toast, I am not concerned with spending time trying to recover them.  I tried the "vmware-vdiskmanager.exe -R "Path\to\file.vmdk" trick, and it accomplished nothing. I am wondering if anyone knows how to take a VM that is operating, and effectively clean-up the dependencies on these previous snapshots/files.  I would happy if I could simply start creating snapshots from my current state and move forward.   Thank you for your time and assistance!

Hello.  I was running Workstation Pro 15.0.2 on a Windows 7 64-bit host with a Windows 7 64-bit guest, and I worked with VMware support to get a Logitech USB headset working properly on the guest. After upgrading to 15.0.3, I could no longer log into the guest.  I repeatedly got "RPC Service Unavailable" error after entering the password.  I rolled back to a previously working snapshot, and I was able to login again.  The problem is, I cannot get any kind of reliable audio out of the guest now.  The headset is completely useless, but in addition to that, the basic audio from the sound card is choppy and "cut-off" many times.  Normal tones for incoming mail and other notifications are truncated. It's off topic, but the VM seems to have general lag since the update (and resulting roll-back to a snapshot), too. Is anyone else experiencing similar issues, or is it just me?

Good Morning Everyone, I hope this is a simple question for anyone already running VMware Workstation Pro... Does Workstaiton provide any sort of indicator, in a collapsed view, to alert you to some kind of activity on a given guest?  For example, let's say that I am running 4 VMs on a machine, and I am currently working on the HOST desktop for some reason.  Then, I receive an e-mail or an instant message on one of the VMs.  Would there be any kind of an audio and/or visual indicator to show me that the message came in on guest "x"? I am evaluating moving from a multi-machine desk/work space to a virtual machine environment.  I am just trying to determine if I would be able to be notified of that kind of activity, or if I will have to 1) hop through each VM until I find the activity, or 2) have to set up custom audio notifications for each event and "machine" for each VM. Thank you for your time and assistance.