It tells me "Your profile is incomplete. We need more information from you before you can download. Update your profile and try again."

What specific information do I need to put in the profile?

I've been trying to install VMware Converter on Windows Server 2008 R2 64Bit OS. I keep getting the following error during installation.

"Error 1935: An error occurred during the installation of assembly component. {9DA4DC8A-9731-3F0E-8BD5-FC17CA6848AD}.

HRESULT: 0x80070BC9."

Has anyone seen this error before? know how to fix? I've found some stuff online but I am not sure it is safe to try the things I've found.

has anyone else had difficulties with dynamic partitions on win 2003 server

these are used when software raid is implemented

we are using the latest vmware converter download and targetting esx enterprise edition

source server is hp proliant

I am attempting to use Vmware converter

to resize virtual machine hard drives.  The goal is to both increase

the size of the virtual hard disk, and the partition in the guest

operating system. 

I am choosing the “convert machine”

option, and toward the end of the process in the “Data to Copy”

section, clicking edit.

In the “Data copy type” field,

there are two options in the drop down list:

1. “Copy all disks and maintain layout”

2. “select volumes to copy”

For some virtual machines, when I

choose “select volumes to copy” I can then specify the “target

size” and make it larger than the source size – no problem

But for other virtual machines, the

“select volumes to copy” option does not appear in the dropdown,

and as a result I cannot tell it to resize the disk in the “target

size field.

It seems not to be working on the Linux

machines in particular.  So far the Windows machines I've tried

seemed OK.  Can Linux VM disks not be resized and this only works on

Windows?  Is there something else that could be the problem?

Thanks for your ideas

I have a Windows dual-boot system with the C: primary partition booting XP and the E: logical disk in the extended partition booting Vista.  I've used VistaBootPRO v3.3 to install the bootloader on both partitions.  I was able to run the converter and create a VM for the C: XP partition.  But when I try to conver the E: Vista partition (which is what I really want to do), it says that E: (the only drive I select) is not a System/Active partition (it only shows as a System).  I set VBP to make E: the default boot partition and booted that way and still have the problem.  What do I need to do to be able to convert this partition?  Thanks!

Dear everyone

     my physical computer is install windows server 20003 sp2 standard edition,now i want to conver it to VM on vmware vsphere .when started conver ,it has a issue below

my vcenter converter standalone version is 6.1.1

physical computer's agent is manual installed (can not push install from vcenter converter standalone server)

i also restart the source computer after install agent

now i have no ideal for this issue

so can anyone help me to resolve this issue,?thanks a lot.

We are new to VMWare Converter and we get an Enterprise Version.

We would like to convert some physical servers to VM in the near future.  In this way, we start looking into VMware Converter.

We would like to know is it a good idea to install VMWare Converter on the VC Server ?  From the web, we understand that there are 2 components of Converter - Agent & Manager.  Should we install both of them in the VC Server or just install the Manager component ?

Moreover, since the C drive of the VC Server is almost full, can we install VMWare Converter on the D drive ?  This is a fellow has told us that we have to get it installed on the system drive.

Thanks

hello,

Is there a proofed way to move a vm from a specif path to another path in virtual infrastructure?

I am using vSphere 4.1

the vm files are located under:

          /vmfs/volume/mydatastore/old-folderName/VM

and I want to move them under this new folder structure:

          /vmfs/volume/mydatastore/new-folderName/node1/VM

I want to keep the vm name the same in the inventory.

Tanks

has anyone else had difficulties with dynamic partitions on win 2003 server

these are used when software raid is implemented

we are using the latest vmware converter download and targetting esx enterprise edition

source server is hp proliant

FAILED: Unable to create a VSS snapshot of the source volume(s). Error code:
2147754767 (0x8004230F).

ruuning win2k8 std (not R2) x64 SP2

i put the log in attachement

i pass the last 3 days trying to find out !!! 

thanks

We are new to VMWare Converter and we get an Enterprise Version.

We would like to convert some physical servers to VM in the near future.  In this way, we start looking into VMware Converter.

We would like to know is it a good idea to install VMWare Converter on the VC Server ?  From the web, we understand that there are 2 components of Converter - Agent & Manager.  Should we install both of them in the VC Server or just install the Manager component ?

Moreover, since the C drive of the VC Server is almost full, can we install VMWare Converter on the D drive ?  This is a fellow has told us that we have to get it installed on the system drive.

Thanks

Hello,

I'm getting this error when trying to convert a physical Ubuntu linux machine. (Picture attached).

We've tried everything on this post - VMware Knowledge Base  and all potential ideas from google!

I would appreciate if someone could look at the logs and tell us what we need to change in order to make this work.

Regards

Hi

I have attempted to convert a Windows SBS 2008 SP2 machine, but it failed around 96% with the following error. Logs attached (ConverterDiagnostics_Convert.zip)

Here is a summary of that conversion task.

I then read some suggestions online to try and just re-do the reconfiguration process again, and that failed as well with a similar error. Logs attached (ConverterDiagnostics_Configure.zip)

The destination location for the VM image is a 2TB USB HDD and the server is only 1.4TB in size.

Can anyone assist with trying to narrow down the issue for me. I tried to check the logs, but there are many errors around the time of the failure, so not sure what is the root cause.

Thanks

Hi, I'm getting the following error when trying to do a p2v conversion. Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you!

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 Command:
chroot "/mnt/p2v-src-root" /vmware-updateGrub.sh "GRUB2" "(hd0)" "(hd0,1)" /vmware-device.map "grub2-install" '

There have been many complaints about transfer rate degradation in Converter 5.0.

Converter uses NFC (a proprietary VMware protocol) for cloning to managed destination. Security has been enhanced in Converter 5.0 by encrypting the data transfer. Unfortunately this has caused a more severe performance degradation than expected.
Switching off SSL encryption is a way to work around this issue. Here is how it is done:

1. Open the converter-worker.xml configuration file. It is located in "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\VMware\VMware vCenter Converter Standalone" folder for Windows Vista or newer or in "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\VMware\VMware vCenter Converter Standalone" for older Windows versions.
2. Set the key Config/nfc/useSsl to false and save the configuration file.
3. Restart "VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Worker" service.

I.e. it should look like:

    ...    <nfc>       <readTimeoutMs>120000</readTimeoutMs>       <useSsl>false</useSsl>    ...

Hello,

I am running an Ubuntu server on LINODE

I managed to download and .img file of it.

How do I convert it to a Virtual Machine that can be used in VMWARE Fusion 8?

Can I use the Converter Standalone?

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

https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2002106

https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1005208

These are all Gen1 Hyper V vms with IDE virtual disks.

I also tried this with no luck.

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1450429-inaccessible-boot-device-error-while-booting-windows-2012-r2

Hi,

It seems that the converter drops proper SELinux-capabilities from /usr/bin/ping during conversion. Because of this, normal user's will not anymore have rights to use ping since it opens a RAW socket and that is guarded by SELinux (when enforced). The issue can be fixed manually either by giving back the proper capabilities to /usr/bin/ping or by reinstalling iputils. Anyhow it would be nice if Converter preserved SELinux-capabilities properly during conversion.

Regards,

-Tom

Blue screen 0x0000007B boot error with 64-bit Windows 2003 virtual machine converted from physical machine.

I am running VMWare Converter Starter Edition version 3.0.0 build-39557 installed on a Dell PowerEdge 2950 (a couple of months old) running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 R2 (version 5.2.3790, SP1 with all the latest updates). The server has SCSI RAID drives (2 separate arrays for a physical C: and D: drive).

The physical machine is a new clean installation of 64-bit Windows Server 2003 with no other software installed except for VMWare Server and Converter.

I am attempting to create a virtual machine from this machine to run in VMWare Server (version 1.0.1 build-29996) on the same physical machine. The conversion appears to succeed, but when I attempt to start the new virtual machine, it begins to boot, displays the Windows 2003 startup screen briefly, and then fails with a blue screen with the following error:

STOP: 0x0000007B (0xFFFFFADFD520F3C0, 0xFFFFFFFFC0000034, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000)

I understand the "0x0000007B" means that it can't access the boot device for some reason. I have searched these forums and the knowledge base, but haven't found a solution to this problem.

I have been able to successfully convert and boot a 32-bit Windows Server 2003 physical machine as a virtual machine running in this same VMWare Server. I don't have any other 64-bit machines to test this with.

I am logged in directly to the console of the physical machine with the administrator account. I enabled virtualization in the BIOS. I have tried various combinations when building the virtual machine (customizing or not, fixed or variable disk sizes, importing both C: and D: drives or importing only the C: drive, etc). I have the SYSPREP files from the x64 installation disks locally on the server, and I have run SETUPMGR in this folder to create a SYSPREP.INF file. All of these various attempts have failed with the same boot error.

Is it possible to build a 64-bit virtual machine using VMWare Converter Starter Edition? Any suggestions on how to resolve this issue?

OS:

Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS \n \l

Version:

Linux server.domain.com 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5xen #1 SMP Wed Jan 20 08:06:04 EST 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

This is an old Xen 64-bit host.

On advice on this forum I copied 'vmware-sysinfo-lin64.tar.gz' to the target machine and tried running this manually. I get the same:

2012-02-21T11:01:09.711+02:00 [02840 info 'Default'] Impersonating user eugene.vandermerwe in session 52c9e19f-db87-2394-5c67-20b223925a15

2012-02-21T11:02:19.995+02:00 [02108 error 'HttpConnectionPool'] [ConnectComplete] Connect error No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.

2012-02-21T11:02:19.995+02:00 [00936 info 'vmomi.soapStub[0]'] Resetting stub adapter for server TCP:196.x.x.x:9089 : Closed

2012-02-21T11:02:55.449+02:00 [02584 info 'Default'] Could not find the session object cache, will create a new one

2012-02-21T11:02:55.449+02:00 [02584 info 'Default'] Obtaining query results for host 196.x.x.x

2012-02-21T11:02:56.119+02:00 [02584 error 'Default'] [Converter Agent SysinfoQuery] while trying to execute "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware vCenter Converter Standalone\plink.exe -noprompt -stdin -P 22 -thumbprint <emptyThumbprint> root@196.x.x.x uname -m" received error code (249) with result: ce:39:83:50:8e:86:51:57:8f:10:44:b7:9d:46:53:d9

-->

2012-02-21T11:02:56.119+02:00 [02584 error 'Default'] [Converter Agent SysinfoQuery] ssh connection to host 196.x.x.x failed because the host thumbprint was different: client: <emptyThumbprint>, host: ce:39:83:50:8e:86:51:57:8f:10:44:b7:9d:46:53:d9

2012-02-21T11:02:56.119+02:00 [02584 error 'Default'] Sysinfo Query failed with error [Converter Agent SysinfoQuery] ssh connection to host 196.x.x.x failed because the host thumbprint was different: client: <emptyThumbprint>, host: ce:39:83:50:8e:86:51:57:8f:10:44:b7:9d:46:53:d9

2012-02-21T11:02:56.119+02:00 [02584 info 'Default'] Scheduled timer canceled, StopKeepAlive succeeds

2012-02-21T11:02:56.173+02:00 [02584 info 'Default'] Obtaining query results for host 196.x.x.x

2012-02-21T11:02:59.917+02:00 [02584 error 'Default'] [Converter Agent SysinfoQuery] while trying to execute "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware vCenter Converter Standalone\plink.exe -noprompt -stdin -P 22 -thumbprint ce:39:83:50:8e:86:51:57:8f:10:44:b7:9d:46:53:d9 root@196.x.x.x cd /tmp/.vmware-sysinfo-rewcjegznpcmclwh/; ./vmware-sysinfo-lin64.sh" received error code (127) with result: ./vmware-sysinfo-lin64.sh: 21: ./vmware-sysinfo-lin64: not found

-->

2012-02-21T11:02:59.917+02:00 [02584 error 'Default'] [Converter Agent SysinfoQuery] received an error code (127) from the ssh client that will be handled later

2012-02-21T11:02:59.917+02:00 [02584 error 'Default'] [Converter Agent SysinfoQuery] execution of vmware-sysinfo failed; return code: 127; result: ./vmware-sysinfo-lin64.sh: 21: ./vmware-sysinfo-lin64: not found

-->

2012-02-21T11:02:59.917+02:00 [02584 error 'Default'] [Converter Agent SysinfoQuery] Query(): Caught exception, cleaning up before bailing out ([Converter Agent SysinfoQuery] execution of vmware-sysinfo failed; return code: 127; result: ./vmware-sysinfo-lin64.sh: 21: ./vmware-sysinfo-lin64: not found

--> )

2012-02-21T11:03:00.588+02:00 [02584 error 'Default'] [Converter Agent SysinfoQuery] while trying to execute "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware vCenter Converter Standalone\plink.exe -noprompt -stdin -P 22 -thumbprint ce:39:83:50:8e:86:51:57:8f:10:44:b7:9d:46:53:d9 root@196.x.x.x cat /tmp/.vmware-sysinfo-rewcjegznpcmclwh/vmware-sysinfo.log" received error code (1) with result: cat: /tmp/.vmware-sysinfo-rewcjegznpcmclwh/vmware-sysinfo.log: No such file or directory

-->

2012-02-21T11:03:00.588+02:00 [02584 error 'Default'] [Converter Agent SysinfoQuery] received an error code (1) from the ssh client that will be handled later

2012-02-21T11:03:00.588+02:00 [02584 error 'Default'] Converter Agent SysinfoQuery failed to grab log file; return code: 1; result: cat: /tmp/.vmware-sysinfo-rewcjegznpcmclwh/vmware-sysinfo.log: No such file or directory

-->

2012-02-21T11:03:01.165+02:00 [02584 error 'Default'] Sysinfo Query failed with error [Converter Agent SysinfoQuery] execution of vmware-sysinfo failed; return code: 127; result: ./vmware-sysinfo-lin64.sh: 21: ./vmware-sysinfo-lin64: not found

-->

2012-02-21T11:03:01.165+02:00 [02584 info 'Default'] Scheduled timer canceled, StopKeepAlive succeeds

2012-02-21T11:03:40.453+02:00 [02840 info 'Default'] [Converter.Worker.DiagnosticManagerImpl] Generating LogBundle.

Here is the log for interesting different error when I connect to private IP:

2012-02-21T11:03:40.453+02:00 [02840 info 'Default'] [Converter.Worker.DiagnosticManagerImpl] Generating LogBundle.

2012-02-21T11:03:40.516+02:00 [02840 info 'Default'] [Converter.Worker.DiagnosticManagerImpl] Created log bundle "source-hhmxannr.zip" with size "29933" and CRC "-582922959"

2012-02-21T11:03:40.531+02:00 [02840 info 'Default'] [Converter.Worker.DiagnosticManagerImpl] Creating agent connection for log retrieval.

2012-02-21T11:03:40.531+02:00 [02840 info 'Default'] [Converter.Worker.DiagnosticManagerImpl] Generating Agent diagnostic bundle for source = (converter.ComputerSpec) {

-->    dynamicType = <unset>,

-->    location = (converter.ComputerSpec.LiveComputerLocation) {

-->       dynamicType = <unset>,

-->       hostname = "196.x.x.x",

-->       port = <unset>,

-->       username = "root",

-->       password = (not shown),

-->       osType = "linuxOs",

-->       verifyPeer = true,

-->       sslThumbprint = "ce:39:83:50:8e:86:51:57:8f:10:44:b7:9d:46:53:d9",

-->    },

--> }

2012-02-21T11:03:40.531+02:00 [02108 info 'Default'] [Converter.Agent.DiagnosticManagerImpl] Generating LogBundle.

2012-02-21T11:03:40.578+02:00 [02108 info 'Default'] [Converter.Agent.DiagnosticManagerImpl] Created log bundle "source-jgvzgnzi.zip" with size "2148" and CRC "345209976"

2012-02-21T11:03:40.578+02:00 [02108 info 'Default'] [Converter.Agent.DiagnosticManagerImpl] Adjusted log bundle "source-jgvzgnzi.zip" with size "2148" and CRC "345209976"

2012-02-21T11:03:40.578+02:00 [02840 info 'Default'] [Converter.Worker.DiagnosticManagerImpl] Retrieving agent task log bundle to "C:\Windows\TEMP\vmware-temp\vmware-SYSTEM\agent-source-diagnostics-xigkyqav.zip".

2012-02-21T11:03:40.578+02:00 [02108 info 'Default'] [Converter.Agent.DiagnosticManagerImpl] Retrieving log bundle with key "source-jgvzgnzi.zip" at offset = "0" and max size = "2148".

2012-02-21T11:03:40.594+02:00 [02840 info 'Default'] [Converter.Worker.DiagnosticManagerImpl] Bundle successfully retrieved to "C:\Windows\TEMP\vmware-temp\vmware-SYSTEM\agent-source-diagnostics-xigkyqav.zip".

2012-02-21T11:03:40.609+02:00 [02840 warning 'Default'] [Converter.Worker.DiagnosticManagerImpl] Unable to remove temporary bundle directory "C:\Windows\TEMP\vmware-temp\vmware-SYSTEM".

2012-02-21T11:03:40.609+02:00 [02840 info 'Default'] [Converter.Worker.DiagnosticManagerImpl] Adjusted log bundle "source-hhmxannr.zip" with size "32156" and CRC "749092046"

2012-02-21T11:03:40.625+02:00 [02108 info 'Default'] [Converter.Worker.DiagnosticManagerImpl] Retrieving log bundle with key "source-hhmxannr.zip" at offset = "0" and max size = "32156".

2012-02-21T11:03:40.656+02:00 [02840 info 'Default'] [Converter.Worker.DiagnosticManagerImpl] Deleting log bundle with key "source-hhmxannr.zip"

2012-02-21T11:05:11.766+02:00 [00936 info 'Default'] Obtaining query results for host 192.168.20.61

2012-02-21T11:05:16.909+02:00 [00936 error 'Default'] [Converter Agent SysinfoQuery] while trying to execute "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware vCenter Converter Standalone\plink.exe -noprompt -stdin -P 22 -thumbprint ce:39:83:50:8e:86:51:57:8f:10:44:b7:9d:46:53:d9 root@192.168.20.61 uname -m" received error code (1) with result: FATAL ERROR: Server unexpectedly closed network connection

-->

2012-02-21T11:05:16.909+02:00 [00936 error 'Default'] [Converter Agent SysinfoQuery] received an error code (1) from the ssh client that will be handled later

2012-02-21T11:05:16.909+02:00 [00936 error 'Default'] [Converter Agent SysinfoQuery] could not determine if the source system was 32 or 64 bit; return code: 1; result: FATAL ERROR: Server unexpectedly closed network connection

-->

2012-02-21T11:05:16.909+02:00 [00936 error 'Default'] Sysinfo Query failed with error [Converter Agent SysinfoQuery] could not determine if the source system was 32 or 64 bit; return code: 1; result: FATAL ERROR: Server unexpectedly closed network connection

-->

2012-02-21T11:05:16.909+02:00 [00936 info 'Default'] Scheduled timer canceled, StopKeepAlive succeeds

2012-02-21T11:05:21.198+02:00 [00936 info 'Default'] [Converter.Worker.DiagnosticManagerImpl] Generating LogBundle.