Hi
I'm getting an error using vCenter Converter Standalone 5.1.0. I'm trying to convert a local machine to an image on an external hard drive. The local machine is Windows 7.
The error I'm getting is Unable to obtain hardware information for the selected machine.
These are the steps I'm following
select source type: Powered-on machine
specify the powered-on machine: This local machine
thanks for any help
I have a server that the hardware died which has mirrored SATA hard drives in them. I would like to convert the data on this hard drive to a virtual machine and put it in my vCenter, but I am unable to boot the server. What is the easiest way to do this? I can mount and read the data in Windows on another machine. Right now I'm trying to back the data up to an acronis image and then use converter to import it. I think there is an easier way though. I also have a Symantec Backup Exec backup of the server but I don't have the ESX agent for Symantec.
Thanks,
Dave
I have a Windows Server 2003 Standard SP2 box which is failing to convert using vCenter Converter Standalone 4.3. After submitting the task in the wizard GUI, I immediately get “A general system error occurred: unknown internal error”. A virtual machine is created and then deleted moments later.
I initially tried it with one of the 2 physical disks set to be resized (not the system volume), and the number of processors reduced from 4 to 1. I get the same result without attempting to change any of these options.
The physical machine has previously been a domain controller, but is now just a member server. Converter was installed under the local admin account and is being run as such too.
The destination is either one of 2 ESXi 4.1 hosts managed by vCenter Server 4.1. The destination datastore is a VMFS volume with 4 MB block size, on an iSCSI SAN. The result is the same on both hosts. Previous conversions have worked fine.
I really have no idea what I’m looking for in the logs. Here’s what seems to stand out:
From converter-gui-3.log:
[2011-01-30 09:05:35.444 03392 error 'wizardController'] Unable to submit job: vmodl.fault.SystemError
[2011-01-30 09:05:35.444 03348 error 'ConversionState'] Submit job failed: A general system error occurred: unknown internal error
From vmware-converter-server-1.log:
[#5] [2011-01-30 09:04:22.607 03116 error 'App'] Found dangling SSL error: [0] error:00000001:lib(0):func(0):reason(1)
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Hey all,
I am trying to convert some Linux machines to VM's and I'm running into the issue "Unable to obtain hardware information..." everytime I try with one of the machines. Can anyone help with this?
Attached are the log files.
Thanks!
Hi,
I get the following error:
FAILED: The VSS snapshots cannot be stored because there is not enough space on the source volumes or because the source machine does not have any NTFS volumes. Error code: 2147754783 (0x8004231F).
I have windows 7 Pro with SSD.
Used space: 16 GB
Free space: 39.7GB
any idea how to solve this issue?
Thanks!!
Dotan.
So here I am again.
Running a V2V conversion on a Windows 2K8 box. I get the "Unable to obtain hardware information for the selected machine." error when I try the conversion. So I try running the "vmware-vdiskmanager with the -R option and it replies "No errors were found on the virtual disk,...". I try the conversion again and the same error. The error comes back almost instantaneously.
Attached is the generated log files. I looked but I would like another opinion because I can't seem to fix it.
This is using Converter 5.1.
Hello
I would like to find the way to get the Cold VMware Converter boot iso.
I don't find any good information about it even if you can read this here
"Is there a hardware compatibility list for VMware vCenter Converter, similar to the one for P2V Assistant?There is no hardware compatibility list for VMware vCenter Converter. VMware vCenter Converter supports and recognizes most server hardware types. VMware vCenter Converter provides for two cloning mechanisms: Hot cloning (live migrations) and cold cloning (cloning using a BootCD).With hot cloning, VMware vCenter Converter communicates directly with the guest operating system running on the source physical machine and as such has no direct hardware level dependencies.With cold cloning, the VMware vCenter Converter BootCD provides a Windows PE boot environment that provides support for the latest hardware and is thus able to recognize most physical server systems. For instances where the VMware vCenter Converter BootCD does not recognize the source physical hardware, VMware provides a utility that helps administrators download the necessary storage and network adapter drivers from the vendor’s website and inject the downloaded drivers into the BootCD distribution. This can be used to create a new Converter BootCD image that will help recognize the system hardware."
Thank you for your answers...
Hello everyone
Can someone help me with the issue P2V a win2k3 64 bit machine into vmware?
I am using esxi 4.1 Update 1 with vmware converter standalone 4.3, it always stopped at Drive D, while no problem on Drive C:
I tried chkdsk on drive D, but seems doesnot help.
more information on the system:
OS: windows 2003 R2 64 bit
HDD : C: 400GB, D: 1.7TB
database: MS SQL 2005 installed by SAP
one concern is the system cannot be shut down during conversion.
many thanks in advance for your help. Thank you.
Johnny
Hi,
I would like to convert a hyper-v server to ESXi. The hyper-v system is running 4 windows 2008 x64 VMs. I have now installed VMware Converter on the host system and powered down the VMs, however I cannot select the images to be converted to the ESXi server. Can someone tell me how I would be able to complete this task.
Thanks!
I have built some VMs on a ESXi 4.1 system as this had a better connection for ISOs etc, with a mind to then convert these VMs once setup and move them to my other ESXi server which is 5.1.
The inital converstion from 4.1 to a Infrastruction, .vmx file went fine, however on the 2nd leg to convert the backup image files from the VMware workstation as a source image up to my 5.1 server I get the error on the final Summary page.
It starts to Submit the job, and I see activity in the logs on the ESXi vSphere client but then it throws the internal error on the Converter.
Logs are attached.
Any ideas?
Hi All,
When I use Vcentrer conversion standalone to convert windows 7 PC I am getting the following error.
"Unable to find the system volume, reconfiguration is not possible"
I am using Windows 7 64 bit PC with PGP encryption.
Please help me to resolve this error.
Cheers
kumar R
I testing PTV of windows 2003 physical (Dell PE) Server using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone to ESXi 4.1.
please find the below complete error message.
FAILED: Unable to establish a secure communication channel between the vCenter Converter server and the remote machine at 172.16.4.10 on port 9089. Verify that the remote machine is running, the firewall is turned off, and the vCenter Converter agent service is running and listening on port 9089. Error details: 'SSL Exception:BIO Error'
Regards
I am trying to convert a physical Server 2008 R2. I have previously converted two other physical 2008 r2 servers but the one I am trying now keeps failing with error: FAILED: Unable to create a VSS snapshot of the source volume(s). Error code:2147754766 (0x8004230E). The two successful conversions I had to install ShadowProtect by StorageCraft for them to work. I have done the same thing on the server that is failing but it did not resolve the issue. I have verified that my MS volume shadow copy is set to manual and is started as well as the VSS service. I also ran vssadmin list writers and that runs successfully as well. I am running VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 4.30. I have the logs if anyone would like to look at them. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Hi there,
I'm trying to convert a windows 2000 server sp4 box using VM Converter 3 enterprise direct to ESX, and am encountering a BSOD when I try and boot the resultant VM.
Error message is:
STOP: 0x0000001E (0xC0000005, 0x8045D9BF, 0x0000000, 0x001A0018)
\** Address 8045D9BF base at 80400000, Datestamp 45069e6e - ntoskrnl.exe
I've tried the fix for windows sp4 rollup and scsiport.sys to no avail, and besides, this error address is different. Is there anything anyone can suggest to try?
Regards,
Mike Cretan
I am trying to import a 3rd party image backup (BESR *.sv2i file) with the vCenter Converter plugin.
I dutifully browse to and find the proper *.sv2i file and allow vCenter to determine its UNC path from the NAS where the files are stored.
Upon entering the absolutely correct id/password credentials, I receive the above error message.
Trying different credentials also throws errors.
Why does this happen and what do I do about it??
It does not matter wherefrom I use the vCenter client and the converter plugin.
Thank you, Tom
Hi Guys,
recently I have setup two ESX 4.1 on two IBM 3650m3 servers. I also have setup a cluster HA with two esx, without DRS (purchased essential plus licence). Until now all is working fine, but something goes wrong when I try to use Vmware Converter plugin at VCenter or Converter Standalone on VM to convert.
My scenario:
ClusterHA with:
- esx1
- esx2
- vcenter 4.1 (on win200864bit VM into the cluster) with vcenter converter plugin 4.2
- vcenter converter standalone converter 4.3.0 (on windows machines)
Also I have an older vmware server 2.0 with 15 VMs to migrate into the new ESX4.1 farm.
No issues I encountered when migrating old VMs with V2V conversion from converter plugin (only linux operating systems), always with "powered on" procedure.
Now, it's time to convert only 2 windows xp 32bit vm:
A) V2V powered machine conversion with plugin from vcenter doesn't work and during deploy agent (or view source details) show me an error : Unable to contact specified host.
I'm sure that isn't a network problem, all required ports are open and tested.
B) I tried also to install vcenter converter standalone on windows machine. In this case, all works fine until Summary Review conversione parameters. If click finish to start conversion, in vcenter I can see create and then delete vm tasks, but in converter standalone I get a "A general system error occurred: unknown internal error"
C) Another way to convert this VMs is shutdown vm, from vcenter source type virtual machine, select vmx file located in a network path, view source detail --> Unable to obtain hardware information for selected machine.
Logs for case A)
Converter::Client::Gui::Common::DiagnosticDataProvider::DownloadSourceDiagnosticFile - Using last known source computer spec:
(converter.ComputerSpec) {
dynamicType = ,
},
}
Logs for case B)
Unable to submit job: vmodl.fault.SystemError
Submit job failed: A general system error occurred: unknown internal error
Next/Finish failed: A general system error occurred: unknown internal error
Logs for case C)
Converter::Client::Gui::Common::DiagnosticDataProvider::SetLastKnownSource - Setting last known source:
(converter.ComputerSpec) {
dynamicType = ,
configFilePath = "
10.192.0.11\vm1\Virtual Machine_1\Virtual Machine.vmx",
password = ,
networkUsername = "test",
networkPassword = (not shown),
type = "vmwareVM",
},
}
Cannot query source HW info: vmodl.fault.SystemError
Can someone help me?
Thanks
I'm trying to convert a physical Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit server to an image I can play in VMware Player. I'm using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone v5. I can connect to the remote Ubuntu server and pull back all the details when selecting the source machine.
But when I then move on to the Destination System screen it asks me for a server name for VMware Infrastructure Server details. I don't have any VMware servers installed, all I have is VMware Player on my PC. So how do I create an image that can be played on my PC in VMware Player?
converter 5.0 will crash when vcenter is upgraded to 5.1. Does anybody know any temp work around or fix? thanks
Hello Folks,
I recently installed VMWare Converter Standalone version 4. I've tried several times to convert RedHat Linux (version 4) physical box to VM but did not get any luck. The conversion keeps failing when it tries to clone /var directory. Note that I can convert Linux machine with Suse Enterprise version 10 without any issue. Do you guy have any ideas about this?
Toan
I am trying to convert a Windows 2000 SP4 (SCSI attached 12GB c:\ drive, 1024MB memory) running on Microsoft Virtual Server over to VMware(Version 3.5.0 Build 123630) using VMware converter 3.0.3-89816. The conversion process completes successfully, but when I try to start the server in VMware I receive a page fault in non paged area win32k.sys BSOD. Any ideas? Thanks.