P2V Convert Failed at 95% A general system error occurred: Reconfiguration failed

[drewmister]

Trying to convert HP dv2000 WinXP Home Laptop.

Here are some of the errors in the logs. Any help would be much appreciated. My searching has yielded little.

One warning in the Log Highlights was: Failed while updating drive letters for the target volume layout.

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error Failed to retrieve media type for
?\Volume{380506fc-2ddd-11db-b221-806d6172696f}\: Incorrect function (1)

User agent is 'VMware-client/4.0.0'

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Partition:Invalid sector magic number.

Disk number 1 has been skipped because of errors while reading partition table

Partition:Invalid sector magic number.

Disk number 1 has been skipped because of errors while reading dynamic disks header or LDM database is corrupted

Partition:Invalid sector magic number.

Partition:Invalid sector magic number.

Partition:Invalid sector magic number.

Partition:Invalid sector magic number.

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error creating directory using CreateDirectoryEx: Cannot create a file when that file already exists (183)

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Error 3 (error loading hive: The system cannot find the path specified (3)) loading temporary hive
.\vstor2-mntapi10-374D384D007E00000000000001000000
WINDOWS\system32\config\SYSTEM under key name mntApi286208973830050397.

Unable to load registry hive
.\vstor2-mntapi10-374D384D007E00000000000001000000
WINDOWS\system32\config\SYSTEM, error 0x3.

Failed to open registry hive, MNTAPI_ERROR = 50

Cannot open the system registry hive. Skipping preserving drive letter mapping

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Error 3 (error loading hive: The system cannot find the path specified (3)) loading temporary hive
.\vstor2-mntapi10-374D384D007E00000000000003000000
Boot\BCD under key name mntApi300615223830050397.

Unable to load registry hive
.\vstor2-mntapi10-374D384D007E00000000000003000000
Boot\BCD, error 0x3.

Error reading boot.ini file
.\vstor2-mntapi10-374D384D007E00000000000003000000
boot.ini

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timeout=30

default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

ReconfigurationTransaction: cached guest system volume

Error 3 (error loading hive: The system cannot find the path specified (3)) loading temporary hive
.\vstor2-mntapi10-374D384D007E00000000000003000000\WINDOWS\system32\config\SOFTWARE under key name mntApi301193348830050397.

Unable to load registry hive
.\vstor2-mntapi10-374D384D007E00000000000003000000\WINDOWS\system32\config\SOFTWARE, error 0x3.

Error 50 when opening software hive

Unable to read OS info from system disk: 50

LocalPathToGuestSystemFolder:
.\vstor2-mntapi10-374D384D007E00000000000003000000\

LocalUndoFolder:
.\vstor2-mntapi10-374D384D007E00000000000003000000\$Reconfig$

Error 3 (error loading hive: The system cannot find the path specified (3)) loading temporary hive
.\vstor2-mntapi10-374D384D007E00000000000003000000
system32\config\SYSTEM under key name mntApi301224598830050397.

Unable to load registry hive
.\vstor2-mntapi10-374D384D007E00000000000003000000
system32\config\SYSTEM, error 0x3.

Can't access guest SYSTEM registry, error 50

Writing the undo log ...

Cleaning up temp directory C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\vmware-temp\vmware-SYSTEM\sysReconfig ...

TaskImpl has failed with MethodFault::Exception: vmodl.fault.SystemError

RecordOp ADD: event[9], task-1

ConvertTask updates, state: 4, percentage: 95, xfer rate (Bps): 1615946

Converter Task GetEvent(taskID=task-1)

RecordOp ASSIGN: info, task-1

Task failed:

Converter Task SetError(taskID=task-1)

Completing task task-1 with state=3

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Error 1 setting SFN

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[drewmister]

Anyone got ideas? What can I try?

[lnairn]

Hi, what version of converter are you using?

Had you tried the converter standalone?

you can try to do reconfigure with the converted VM

are you hot converting or cold converting?

[drewmister]

I am using the latest version of the Stand Alone converter.

I am doing a hot conversion.

I haven't tried to reconfigure after the conversion. I will try that and report back.

[drewmister]

I just realized that I already deleted the VM that I created so I won't be able to attempt reconfiguration. I can run another conversion but it will take 5+ hours.

I'd like to be able to do something different on my next attempt since it takes so long.

Do any of the errors I have provided indicate something I can fix?

[lnairn]

In the moment you are converting the machine are you changing the size of the disk's?

try not to change anything in the disk size in the moment of converting, or you can try (if you have some partition's) to convert only the first partition (the partition that have de OS), and then copy the data of the other partition's manually.

[drewmister]

Thanks Inairin. I'll give it another try. I am doubtful however.

Anyone else see something to work on?

[continuum · Accepted solution]

try Converter 3.0.3 - that seems to be a little bit more reliable




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[drewmister]

OK, I tried again with the latest version. I wrote the VM to the local machine and only converted the primary partition. Still had the same issue.

I then tried to reconfig. That did not work either. The converter said the file did not support configuration.

I'll try continuum's suggest of using an older version. What can it hurt?

Where can I get version 3.0.3?

Will I have any issues with the VM it produces running on Win7?

[continuum]

don't delete the result too early - even if it does not work after Converter is done with it - you can fix 7B bluescreens on XP-VMs quite easily with DriverInjectionGUI used from a PE-CD

Will I have any issues with the VM it produces running on Win7?

No




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[continuum]

finding the download link on the VMware site itself may be to time-consuming ....

so google may help - see this one for example

http://de.brothersoft.com/VMware-Converter-download-136453.html




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[drewmister]

Thanks for the suggestion continuum.

I used version 3.0.3 and it worked.

I am still having a problem, but I don't know that it is an issue with VMware so I won't make much of it here.

I am actually using VirtualBox to run the VM. The P2V vm I just created runs in VirtualBox but it is running REALLY!!!! slow. I don't see error it just acts as if it is on really slow hardware. Maybe it is just some settings but I have been playing around with it and nothing seems to help.

I'm headed off to the VirtualBox forums to see what I can find.

[drewmister]

I moved the VM to VMPlayer and it work much better.