I am running Converter on Windows 7 ans trying to make a virtual machine of the current installation to upgrade to Windows 10.
Whenever I start to use the converter I get this error message "Unable to complete Converter agent installation on Dell-9020. Another version of this product is already installed.
I have looked around the machine and the only one I can find is the current installation.
Anyone any ideas. Thanks
I am P2Ving some HP machines and have read the posts here on how to remove most of the HP components but I am stuck on how to get rid of the HP network Configuration Utility program which puts the HP Network icon in the system tray. There is a post from Guillermo Musumeci back in 2007 that said using this command:
snetcfg.exe -v -u cq_cpqteam
should do it but I can't find snetcfg.exe on this server.
There is also a post from Jasemccarty in 2007 that said this keymay be the key you have to remove:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Network\
{4D36E975-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\{FD0FF0D6-4876-4894-9274-258564E35C07}
But that key doesn't appear to be in the registry on this server. Anyone have any ideas on how to remove this last bit of HP centric software from a P2V'd VM?
Anyone know why HP makes it so blasted difficult to remove their drivers and other components?
thanks,
Dan
I'm starting the process of migrating a collection of VMs in a KVM environment to an existing vSphere cluster and am trying to use Converter (5.5) to do a live conversion/migration of an Ubuntu box, but it's failing due to create the virtual disk on one of hosts due to the SSL certificate, and I haven't found any other posts or articles specifically about this (seems like most SSL related items are about improving speed)
From the worker log, I can see that:
2014-08-07T09:35:13.947-07:00 [06620 warning 'Default'] [,0] SSL_IsVerifyEnabled: failed to read registry value. Falling back to default behavior: verification on. LastError = 0
2014-08-07T09:35:13.947-07:00 [06620 warning 'Default'] [,0] SSL: Unknown SSL Error
2014-08-07T09:35:13.947-07:00 [06620 warning 'Default'] [,0] SSL: connect failed
2014-08-07T09:35:13.947-07:00 [06620 warning 'Default'] [,0] [NFC ERROR] NfcNewAuthdConnectionEx: Failed to connect to peer. Error: The remote host certificate has these problems:
-->
--> * The host certificate chain is incomplete.
-->
--> * unable to get local issuer certificate
2014-08-07T09:35:13.947-07:00 [06620 info 'Default'] Sysimgbase_DiskLib_OpenWithPassPhrase failed with 'NBD_ERR_NETWORK_CONNECT' (error code:2338)
Is it possible to simply disable the certificate validation for this process? From the log, it sounds like there's a registry key that would control it, but I haven't found any information on it (or guessed it correctly). Or can I import that cert to the local Windows system running Converter to get around it (I haven't been successful with that approach yet either)
It's actually not clear to me which system is doing the validation. While the worker log states it connecting to the vSphere host, there is no such line indicating it's connecting to the host where the target VM is located, and it looks like that's the host with the certificate that is deemed invalid. Is the validation not happening on my local system that is running Converter? (the vCenter server settings shows that the "vCenter requires verified host SSL certificates" checkbox is unchecked already)
Thanks,
Scott
Can someone provide a download to converter 3.03 please? I need to convert a XP machine to VM and VMWare's site only has version 6 available to download and it doesn't support XP. I am unable to upgrade this pc from XP as it is running software at a mining plant that won't run higher than XP.
At a loss at this point. Brand new reformatted FAT32 external USB harddrive on an XPpro Laptop. I can succesfully R/W to this drive, create folders, etc so seems fine.
Download and run 4.0 Converter and persistantly receive the following after about 3 minutes:
Status: FAILED: Unable to create a VSS snapshot of the source volume(s). Error code:
2147754776 (0x80042318).
Simply trying to create a VM for this physical powered on machine to the USB drive which is empty
Trying to create a VM of this machine before returning it. Lots of work ahead if I can simply create this VM and run it on the new host.
Any help would be appreciated. Read the manuals and notes. Couldn't find this error code mentioned. Email to VMware - they sent me here.
Thanks
Hi,
may anyone have/had same issue.
i had 6.0 U3 latest vcenter and hosts.
and i converted some vm's from Hyper-V to Vmware Side.
i then upgraded vcenter to 6.7 U3.
since then i'am not able to convert anymore.
--> (converter.fault.CloneFault) {
--> faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null,
--> description = "converter.fault.SSLVerificationFault",
--> msg = ""
--> }
i tried
- Re/installed Agent on Client Side
- Re/installed Converter on Server
i don't understand why that SSLVerificationFault happens. i also tried to convert directly to esxi 6.0. getting kinda user/password error. but user and pass is right.
only working way in moment is to convert through UNC path and then to import to vCenter.
any thoughts what that could be and how to solve it? as Converter seems long time not maintained.
thx
Max
Hi
I am trying to install VMware-converter-4.0.0 onto Fedora 10.
When I try to install the server I get by running ./vmware-install.pl
I get the following output towards the end of the install
Generating SSL Server Certificate Unable to get the last modification timestamp of the destination file /etc/vmware-converter/ssl/rui.key. Execution aborted.
I cant find anything in the forum or from a google. Any help would be appreciated.
Hi,
I have VM (Exchange) along with attached Raw LUN. I am using ESXi 5.0U2
My question that is that can I convert this VM (Offline) The Raw Lun will be including in this conversion or not?
Regards,
Badr
vmware convertor standalone version: 6.0.0-build 2716716
Source Linux server information:
xxxx:~ # cat /etc/issue
Welcome to openSUSE 13.2 "Harlequin" - Kernel \r (\l).
xxxx:~ # uname -a
Linux xxxx 3.16.7-29-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Oct 23 00:46:04 UTC 2015 (6be6a97) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
xxxx:~ # uname -r
3.16.7-29-desktop
xxxx:~ # dmidecode -t system
# dmidecode 2.12
SMBIOS 2.5 present.
Handle 0x0030, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
Manufacturer: IBM
Product Name: System x3650 M3 -[7945RFR]-
Version: 00
Converting stopped at progress 97% and followed by error and check converter exported logs by attachment:
FAILED: An error occurred during the conversion: 'GrubInstaller::InstallGrub: /usr/lib/vmware-converter/installGrub.sh failed with return code: 127, and message: FATAL: kernel too old Error running vmware-updateGrub.sh through chroot into /mnt/p2v-src-root /usr/lib/vmware-converter/installGrub.sh: line 147: /mnt/p2v-src-root:
Is a directory '
Vmware converter release notes have following statements for converter 6.2
Some Linux distributions have unsupported combinations of Linux kernel and grub loader.
Workaround: None. Use supported distributions only.
at link VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 6.2.0.1 Release Notes
Disscuss :
1 From the error, is it saying that the kenrnel of converter helper is older than source linux system ?
1) check converter helper kernal version: boot a virtual machine from ISO file from compuer on which converter is installed into default location C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware vCenter Converter Standalone6.0\converter-helper-vm-x64.iso
2) we see that the kernel of converter helper is much older than source linux server. 2.6.38 < 3.16.7
2) can we fix the failed converted linux system by re-install grub with orignal Linux server kernel-version ?
I did following steps but it did not work.
A boot the failed server from a live CD.
B after related file system is mounted and chroot,reinstall the grub2
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
grub2-install /dev/sda
C reboot the vm and vm starts endless circling bettwen "Grub loading" and restarting.
3) the same problem accured and check this aiticle.
4) Same suggestion is posted in Vmware p2v conversion error .
Hello there,
I'm trying to run a live P2V using vmware converter standalone 6.0.0 running on the actually physical machine to be converted and after selecting the ESXi 5.5 destination I get "The destination does not support EFI firmware". The physical machine is running Windows 2008 R2 standard x64 and is a System x3550 M2. Ive searched the internet but cant seem to find anyone with the same issue.
Does anyone know if there is a workaround for this issue?
Many thanks
Trying to migrate 4 VMs from 2012 R2 Hyper-V Server to a mixed vSphere 6/6.5 cluster via VMware converter 6.1.1 . I have tried converting and choosing mutliple types of disk controllers and it doesn't seem to matter I get a BSOD on VM startup with an Inaccessible_Boot_Device.
Anyone have any other ideas?
Tried the steps in the following articles
These are all Gen1 Hyper V vms with IDE virtual disks.
I also tried this with no luck.
I'm having endless issues trying to convert a Physical Windows 2008 R2 Server. The failure always seems to be around not being able "to take Snapshop of source volume". The Event Viewer in the physical box throws a host of VSS errors (Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine CoCreateInstance) in the applciation event log.
Ive tried many differnent things from using Old Converters to the new vCenter 4 Converter. I even tried a VMware converter Boot CD which was successfull but the Converted VM would not boot moaning about device drivers and would not repair via any Microsoft Repair Tools.
Has anyone every got this right? I'm sure it has something to do with creating a snapshop of the disk in Windows Server 2008 but I cant find any solutions around correcting the issue.
Help!!!!
Hi
I tried to search , but i couldn't find any converter to convert .img to .vmx.
I have the image & it is not running on any environment & just want to convert it into vmware compatible , so that i can host it VM Esxi.
Thanks.
My company has just recently moved to VMware and I have successfully P2V my NT Server and all was well. This past weekend I P2V my Server 2000 domain controller and I thought all was well but come yesterday none of my users can connect to the NT Server. What's weird is only the domain admin account is able to connect. If anyone has any ideas what is causing this please help.....thanks.
Hi,
may anyone have/had same issue.
i had 6.0 U3 latest vcenter and hosts.
and i converted some vm's from Hyper-V to Vmware Side.
i then upgraded vcenter to 6.7 U3.
since then i'am not able to convert anymore.
--> (converter.fault.CloneFault) {
--> faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null,
--> description = "converter.fault.SSLVerificationFault",
--> msg = ""
--> }
i tried
- Re/installed Agent on Client Side
- Re/installed Converter on Server
i don't understand why that SSLVerificationFault happens. i also tried to convert directly to esxi 6.0. getting kinda user/password error. but user and pass is right.
only working way in moment is to convert through UNC path and then to import to vCenter.
any thoughts what that could be and how to solve it? as Converter seems long time not maintained.
thx
Max
As the subject notes, I'm trying to test out converting some physical systems to VMWare using Converter 5.5 Standalone. Running it on a Windows 7 system, and I'm attempting to convert a Linux system that's running CentOS6. The wizard goes through smooth, and the source information is pulls down all looks correct. The conversion starts, connects to the helper, and starts formatting the destination. Then, at 3%, the conversion fails with this error:
FAILED: A general system error occurred: connect (`192.168.8.232'): Network is unreachable connect (`192.168.8.232'): Network is unreachable connect (`192.168.8.232'):
Network is unreachable Network error. Host 192.168.8.232 key can't be retrieved. (return code 2)
192.168.8.232 in this case is the source system. It's up and running just fine, and I maintain a SSH connection the entire time, but for some reason this error keeps coming up and I'm not sure why.
The conversion prompts for the key initially when the process starts, so I'm not sure if the "key can't be retrieved" error is as result of the "network unrechable" error, or if the key error comes first before the network error. Either way, network connectivity is fine, and I'm stumped as to why it keeps failing at this point. Any thoughts?
I've got a sector by sector partition image taken with Drive Snapshot of a physical machine I want to convert with Converter Standalone (to do P2V conversion, automatically fix windows drivers, etc)
I've tried to create a empty VHD in win7,mounted, restore with drive snapshot to that temp drive, then unmounted and try to input that VHD to converter standalone buy it wasn't accepted.
I guess i need a vmc file, as with just a VHD file it seems it's impossible.
What would be the easiest way to convert to an image supported by converter standalone ?
I don't care what format is as it's a temporary format to feed it to converter to do the conversion and get a working and bootable virtual machine.
Preferably with free tools of course ( I don't want to by Norton Ghost for example )
Thanks.
Computer name does not change even after seleting customize guest and providing a new name when cloning/converting a virtual Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise Server.
I am in the process of trying to convert a machine to a VM using vCenter Converter and cannot get the conversion to work. It always fails at 1% or 2% with the error in the title of this post. The full error is: FAILED: An error occurred during the conversion: 'BlockLevelVolumeCloneMgr::CloneVolume: Detected a write error during the cloning of volume \WindowsBitmapDriverVolumeId=[98-87-BA-25-00-00-80-0C-00-00-00-00]. Error: 401 (type: 1, code: 25)'
I'm trying to convert the local machine to VMWare Workstation 11/12. The source machine is Windows 7 Pro x64. I've recently done two conversions just like this one from similar source hardware which both converted with no issues, so I have no idea what could be wrong here.
I've done some searching online and have tried many suggestions from similar cases but none have worked. Here's everything I've tried:
I can't find a solution that seems to work for me, so I'm hoping someone here may be able to help. I'm attaching the exported logs for reference. Any help is appreciated - thanks in advance!
Hello
I am trying to create a vm from a physical server fails at 1% from the VMware vCenter Converter Standalone client with the error:
FAILED: A general system error occurred: failed to poweron vm
The vmware-converter-server-1 log contains the following, (last 30 or so lines) below.
I have found a few topics regarding this error, but they did not work, such as assigning a static IP over using DHCP.
Environment:
VMware Server - ESXi 4.1
Physical machine - RHEL 5.5
VMware vCenter Converter Standalone client, version 5.0.0 Build-470252
Any/all help is greatly appreciated.
LOG:
2012-03-20T13:24:20.570-04:00 [02452 info 'Default'] Connecting to host usmar-bldvmsvr02 on port 443
2012-03-20T13:24:20.570-04:00 [02452 info 'Default'] localVersion is: vim.version.version7
2012-03-20T13:24:20.616-04:00 [02452 info 'Default'] Remote version is: vim.version.version6
2012-03-20T13:24:20.632-04:00 [02452 info 'Default'] Authenticating user root
2012-03-20T13:24:20.648-04:00 [02452 info 'Default'] Scheduled timer canceled, StopKeepAlive succeeds
2012-03-20T13:24:20.663-04:00 [02452 info 'Default'] ComputeResource for vim.ResourcePool:ha-root-pool is vim.ComputeResource:ha-compute-res
2012-03-20T13:24:20.710-04:00 [02452 info 'vmomi.soapStub[57]'] Resetting stub adapter for server TCP:usmar-bldvmsvr02:443 : Closed
2012-03-20T13:24:20.710-04:00 [02452 info 'Default'] Created new scheduler item with id = "12", firstTimeToRun = "2012-03-20 13:24:20.570", source = "", targetRPOInMinutes = "0". -- __thiscall Converter::Server::Scheduler::SchedulerItemImpl::SchedulerItemImpl(const class Converter::Server::Scheduler::SchedulerItemSpec &,const int &,const class boost::shared_ptr<class Converter::Server::Scheduler::SchedulerEnv> &,const class Vmacore::Ref<class Vmacore::Service::Logger> &,const class boost::optional<class Converter::VdbConnection &> &) ("d:/build/ob/bora-470252/bora/sysimage/ufad/server/scheduler/schedulerItemImpl.cpp:87")
2012-03-20T13:24:20.710-04:00 [02452 info 'Default'] scheduler item with id="12" created -- int __thiscall Converter::Server::Scheduler::PriorityQScheduler::AddSchedulerItem(const class boost::shared_ptr<class Converter::Server::Scheduler::SchedulerItemSpec> &,const class boost::optional<class Converter::VdbConnection &> &) ("d:/build/ob/bora-470252/bora/sysimage/ufad/server/scheduler/priorityQScheduler.cpp:49")
2012-03-20T13:24:20.710-04:00 [02464 info 'Default'] Scheduler scheduling item 12 to run at time = 2012-03-20 13:24:20.710. -- void __thiscall Converter::Server::Scheduler::SimpleScheduler::Run(void) ("d:/build/ob/bora-470252/bora/sysimage/ufad/server/scheduler/simpleScheduler.cpp:109")
2012-03-20T13:24:20.741-04:00 [02484 info 'Default'] Connecting to host usmar-bldvmsvr02 on port 443
2012-03-20T13:24:20.741-04:00 [02484 info 'Default'] localVersion is: vim.version.version7
2012-03-20T13:24:20.788-04:00 [02484 info 'Default'] Remote version is: vim.version.version6
2012-03-20T13:24:20.788-04:00 [02484 info 'Default'] Authenticating user root
2012-03-20T13:24:20.820-04:00 [02484 info 'Default'] ComputeResource for vim.HostSystem:ha-host is vim.ComputeResource:ha-compute-res
2012-03-20T13:24:20.820-04:00 [02484 info 'Default'] ResourcePool for vim.ComputeResource:ha-compute-res is vim.ResourcePool:ha-root-pool
2012-03-20T13:24:20.820-04:00 [02484 info 'Default'] ComputeResource for vim.ResourcePool:ha-root-pool is vim.ComputeResource:ha-compute-res
2012-03-20T13:24:20.835-04:00 [02484 info 'Default'] Datacenter for vim.ComputeResource:ha-compute-res is vim.Datacenter:ha-datacenter
2012-03-20T13:24:20.835-04:00 [02484 info 'Default'] Root VM folder for vim.Datacenter:ha-datacenter is vim.Folder:ha-folder-vm
2012-03-20T13:24:20.835-04:00 [02484 info 'Default'] Reusing existing VIM connection to usmar-bldvmsvr02
2012-03-20T13:24:20.866-04:00 [02484 info 'Default'] Scheduled timer canceled, StopKeepAlive succeeds
2012-03-20T13:24:20.866-04:00 [02484 info 'vmomi.soapStub[58]'] Resetting stub adapter for server TCP:usmar-bldvmsvr02:443 : Closed
2012-03-20T13:24:20.913-04:00 [00360 info 'Default'] [task,338] [task-12] -- BEGIN -- Convert
2012-03-20T13:24:20.929-04:00 [00360 error 'Default'] Found dangling SSL error: [0] error:00000001:lib(0):func(0):reason(1)
2012-03-20T13:24:20.945-04:00 [02484 info 'Default'] Started task "task-12" for job="job-12", item ="12" -- void __thiscall Converter::Server::Job::JobProcessorImpl::StartProcessingJobs(void) ("d:/build/ob/bora-470252/bora/sysimage/lib/converter/server/job/jobProcessorImpl.cpp:383")
2012-03-20T13:24:20.945-04:00 [00360 info 'Default'] [taskSpec,467] [task-12] [TaskMap] task-12:task-23
2012-03-20T13:24:20.991-04:00 [01044 info 'Default'] ConverterConnection: KeepAlive timer canceled, StopKeepAlive succeeded
2012-03-20T13:24:20.991-04:00 [01044 info 'vmomi.soapStub[55]'] Resetting stub adapter for server PIPE:\\.\pipe\vmware-converter-worker-soap : Closed
2012-03-20T13:24:28.429-04:00 [00360 error 'Default'] [task,350] [LRO] Unexpected Exception: vmodl.fault.SystemError
2012-03-20T13:24:28.429-04:00 [00360 info 'Default'] [task,379] [task-12] -- ERROR -- Convert: vmodl.fault.SystemError
--> (vmodl.fault.SystemError) {
--> dynamicType = <unset>,
--> faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null,
--> reason = "failed to poweron vm",
--> msg = "",
--> }
2012-03-20T13:24:28.429-04:00 [00360 info 'Default'] [diagnosticManager,267] Retrieved taskInfo for "converter.task.Task:task-12" mapping it to "converter.task.Task:task-12".
2012-03-20T13:24:28.429-04:00 [00360 info 'Default'] [diagnosticManager,307] The task with id = "task-12" was found to be a "recent" task.
2012-03-20T13:24:28.429-04:00 [00360 info 'Default'] [diagnosticManager,321] No existing log bundle found for task with id = "task-12". The task is still "recent" so a log bundle will now be generated for it.
2012-03-20T13:24:28.429-04:00 [00360 info 'Default'] [diagnosticManager,790] Retrieving task related diagnostics for server task with id = "task-12".
2012-03-20T13:24:28.429-04:00 [01036 info 'Default'] Run 0 of job "job-12" finished with an error. -- struct Converter::Server::Job::JobExecutor::SchedulerUpdateSpec __thiscall Converter::Server::Conversion::ConversionJobExecutorImpl::UpdateJob(class Converter::Server::Job::InternalJob &,bool,const class Converter::Server::Scheduler::SchedulerItemStatistics &,const class Converter::Task::TaskInfo &) ("d:/build/ob/bora-470252/bora/sysimage/lib/converter/server/conversion/conversionJobExecutorImpl.cpp:405")
2012-03-20T13:24:28.444-04:00 [01036 info 'Default'] Suspended 1 scheduler items for job (job-12) -- void __thiscall Converter::Server::Job::JobProcessorImpl::SuspendJobAux(const class Converter::Server::Job::InternalJob &,class Converter::VdbConnection &) ("d:/build/ob/bora-470252/bora/sysimage/lib/converter/server/job/jobProcessorImpl.cpp:828")
2012-03-20T13:24:28.601-04:00 [00360 info 'Default'] ConverterConnection: KeepAlive timer canceled, StopKeepAlive succeeded
2012-03-20T13:24:28.601-04:00 [00360 info 'vmomi.soapStub[59]'] Resetting stub adapter for server PIPE:\\.\pipe\vmware-converter-worker-soap : Closed
2012-03-20T13:24:28.601-04:00 [00360 warning 'vmomi.soapStub[59]'] Terminating invocation: server=PIPE:\\.\pipe\vmware-converter-worker-soap, moref=vmodl.query.PropertyCollector.Filter:session[5264bd60-de17-d6f4-e798-cb998a3233ed]52f3406e-964c-dea1-c23e-6f30439c2a81, method=destroy
2012-03-20T13:25:17.849-04:00 [01708 info 'Default'] [diagnosticManager,343] Generating Converter.Server log bundle with no task logs.
2012-03-20T13:25:17.849-04:00 [01708 info 'Default'] [diagnosticManager,370] Generating Converter.Server log bundle.