gautam's Posts

Try changing the target VM's disk from buslogic to lsi logic.
The Converter license is intalled on a per user basis. If you want other users to be able to remote hot clone to ESX, ask them to add the Converter license while they are logged in.
The latest Converter version 3.0.2, has Vista P2V support
Glad to hear it. I'll follow up inernally to see if we can resolve this in future versions.
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Answers inline: - Hi Guys, I am very new user of VMware Converter 3.0.1, I am in process of learning how to use the command p2vtool. Got few questions, it would be great if some... See more...
Answers inline: - Hi Guys, I am very new user of VMware Converter 3.0.1, I am in process of learning how to use the command p2vtool. Got few questions, it would be great if someone answers them: First of all I would like to confess that I am not able to make sense out of the file P2VInput.xsd and the sample xml files located in the directory C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Converter\samples Try opening the XSD in Visual Studio or some other XML viewer. Q1. I could query local machine and remote machine using following code: . . . xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.vmware.com/v2/sysimage/p2v p2v.xsd"> <source> <liveSpec> <creds host="xyz" username="Admin" password="******" /> </liveSpec> </source> </p2v> Is it possible to query .sv2i, .vmc, .vmx or .spf file? If yes, how should I do that? Yes you can do that. Replace the liveSpec element with the hostedSpec element. Q2. With GUI Converter I can opt to Ignore page file and hibernation file but how to specify this in the .xml input file? You can specify this in the imporParams tag. There is an attribute clonePagefile which can be set to true/false . Q3. I could find out a way to resize a disk and specify newSize in the .xml input file. Using GUI there are options to select min size and maintain size which I don't know how to specify in the .xml input file. There is no minSize option, you will need to look at the ouptut of the query and decide what you want to resize the volumes to. Q4. With GUI Converter I can select from different "Disk Space Allocation" or Split into 2GB files, how to specify in the .xml input file? There is a diskType attribute to the importParams. It can have the following options: - <xs:simpleType name="DiskCreateType"> <xs:restriction base="xs:string"> <xs:enumeration value="MONOLITHIC_SPARSE" /> <xs:enumeration value="MONOLITHIC_FLAT" /> <xs:enumeration value="TWO_GB_SPARSE" /> <xs:enumeration value="TWO_GB_FLAT" /> <xs:enumeration value="VMFS" /> <xs:enumeration value="LINKED" /> </xs:restriction> </xs:simpleType> Q5. How should I specify no. of NICs, its type bridged/Host-only/NAT and connect at power on in the .xml input file? Add a nicMappings child tag to importParams,under this you can have multiple 'nicMapping' tags each with an attribute called network. Each nicMapping element corresponds to one NIC. For WS destinations set its value to be host-only, bridged, NAT and for ESX set it to be the network name. Q6. How should I specify to install VMware Tools in the .xml input file? The postProcessingParams element has a installTools attrib that can be set to true/false Q7. How should I Customize the identity of the virtual machine and specify the Location of sysprep files in the .xml input file? Location of the sysprep files is specified by the deployCabContent attribute under postProcessingParams->customization->identity->sysPrepText. I can't go through all the sysprep options here since they are too many. Its not that I simply dropped into this forum to get my answers quickly, I did go through the file P2VInput.xsd but could not understand much coz its a list of codes with no proper explanation on how to use a particular tag e.g. I don't know what the following means: Like I said before get a good XML viewer, reading the schema as a text file will drive you crazy. Let me know if you need more help. Gautam \- <xs:complexType name="LoginCredentials"> I could refer complexType as a tag - correct me if I am wrong. \- <xs:annotation> - don't know what's this. <xs:documentation>These login credentials are passed around by the VMImporter class and by VMCreator. They log into VC or into Hostd on an ESX box.</xs:documentation> I assume text within </xs:documentation> are comments. </xs:annotation> \- <xs:attribute name="host" type="xs:string" use="required"> Now, I can understand "host is an attribute of string type and is required but the question is how should I put it in the .xml input file? \- <xs:sequence> - now whats this sequence? <xs:element name="creds" type="LoginCredentials" /> - element name?? </xs:choice> ?? and there are many like this. This post may look kiddish to many people. Yes, I am a kid who is trying to understand this wonderful VMware product. Thanks a TON for all those who read this post. Thanks a BILLION for your replies. Yours, VMware Fan (KMK)
Were multiple disks created in the destination? Can you try flipping the disk boot order to boot from scsi0:! instead of scsi0:0?
Windows 98 is not supported by VMware Converter. The only way to convert it is using the BootCD (which has the RAM requirement you mentioned), and even after that there is significant manual reco... See more...
Windows 98 is not supported by VMware Converter. The only way to convert it is using the BootCD (which has the RAM requirement you mentioned), and even after that there is significant manual reconfiguration required to get it to boot.
Almost there! This log doesn't contain the messages for the conversion. Can you get the logs with messages having a time stamp that is around the time you did the conversion?
Thanks but the logs I'm looking for sre in c:\windows\temp\vmware-temp
Can you post the full converter logs (from C:\windows\Temp) for your attempt with 3.0.2?
Converter will try to preserve the RAM from the source. If you want to change it, after the conversion completes, just edit the VM settings and change the RAM size there.
Does the original machine have any diagnostic/utility partitions? Can you post what the default= line in boot.ini points to?
Not surprising Windows 98 is not a supported platform for hot cloning. You can do a cold clone but unless your Win 98 machine already has SCSI drivers etc. it is unlikely to boot.
Please provide the logs for the import and more information about what you are doing. Is it a local clone or a remote clone? What is the OS on the servers? Did you choose to select/resize volumes... See more...
Please provide the logs for the import and more information about what you are doing. Is it a local clone or a remote clone? What is the OS on the servers? Did you choose to select/resize volumes? If so, did you try the conversion after unchecking the diagnostic partition in the menu? Did you try with the latest Converter version (3.0.2)?
I don't know if you still need a solution to this, but connecting the VI client directly to the ESX box will allow you to remove the troublesome disk.
Basically Converter preserves the current state of the VM's disk. So all snapshots are collapsed to the current state and any branches are disregarded.
Did you do a custom install and only select the Converter Manager? To use all Converter functionality you need to install everything from the installer menu. Converter Manager only installs can o... See more...
Did you do a custom install and only select the Converter Manager? To use all Converter functionality you need to install everything from the installer menu. Converter Manager only installs can only do remote cloning.
Hi, this is the client log, were you trying to clone a remote machine? If so can you get the agent logs from that remote machine? It should be under C:\windows\temp\vmware-temp on the machine you... See more...
Hi, this is the client log, were you trying to clone a remote machine? If so can you get the agent logs from that remote machine? It should be under C:\windows\temp\vmware-temp on the machine you were trying to clone.
I recommend you start your research with the user manual: http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/converter_pubs.html Some extracts from there: - 1) Section: Virtual Machines and ... See more...
I recommend you start your research with the user manual: http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/converter_pubs.html Some extracts from there: - 1) Section: Virtual Machines and System Images That Can Be Imported "Note the following limitations: Virtual machines must be powered off before you import them. You cannot import suspended virtual machines." 2) Section: Cloning and System Reconfiguration of Physical Machines This section has information about local and remote hot cloning. I'm also confused by your question, do you ned the source o remain onlint or not? If you do then you are going about it the right way, install converter inside the VM and then clone "this machine" as if it were a physical machine and it should work...without requiring deep breaths