The snapshot is successful, I've mounted the vmdk with vdk and can browse the files.  Here are the last errors in the log

Reconfiguration failed

VmiReconfigTask::task: Image processing task has failed with MethodFault::Exception: sysimage.fault.ReconfigFault

Attached is the full log with 3 converts in it.  

I'm using the latest vmconverter from the website, I just downloaded it today.  

I'm running the program as localadmin not on the domain.  This is a 46gb partition on a 160gb drive.  I'm only selecting the windows 46gb partition.  When I try using the vmdk even though it failed, it starts to boot then gets stuck on agpcpq.sys before it BSODs.  I can't read the bsod, it goes by too fast.

Any ideas?

Hi,

I am just trying out Converter V4.0.0, and can't get it to work.

I have tried using it to copy an ESX3i VM, and it failed at 2% with the error

FAILED: A general system error occurred: SQL_CANTOPEN:

unable to open database file

I also tried to get it to copy a Workstation 6.5 VM to Server 2.1, and that failed at 1% with the same error.

I am not sure what database it is talking about, or why it can't open it.

FWIW, I have converter running on Vista, the workstation is on the same Vista PC and the Server is running on Windows 2003.

I have admin rights to all the machines.

I have looked in the log files, but there doesn't appear to be any more information than that error.

I have searched the knowledge bases, the fora and google, but can'e find any reference to that error.

Any ideas?

Cheers

Rob

Hello,

I've seen this problem posted before and haven't been able to use anyone elses solution to resolve this problem.  I'm attempting a P2V conversion of Windows Server 2003 Std Edition.  I'm importing the the machine via vSphere client to vCenter using vCenter Converter 4.2.1.  I've tried hot cloning this way several times and didn't get much further than 4% after letting the process run over 24 hours.  During this process it almost appears to hang and does so without error.  I've attached the logs for review as I've tried everything I can up to this point with no success.  I've done this process with other machines and had no problems.  I've tried the standalone converter 4.3 on the source machine with no luck either.  I'm not sure what else to look for...

Message was edited by: TerryOdom - Good call.  That's what I get for being in a hurry.  Let's try this again

Hi,

I have been trying to p2v our fileserver a few time over the last couple of weeks and it always fails during reconfiguration.

I have tried converter 4.01 and 5.0.

The errors i receive are below.

Error: An error occurred during reconfiguration.

Processing the reconfiguration datastore.

Updating drive letters for the destination volume layout.

Warning: Unable to update boot.ini on the destination machine's system volume.

Updating boot.ini on the destination machine's system volume

Updating the boot sectors on the destination machine

Completed cloning volume 'C:'.

Starting to clone volume 'C:'.

Completed cloning volume 'D:'.

Warning: Unable to read the block at offset '1,824,522,240' on volume 'D:'

I have also attached the diagnosic logs.

Any Idea's?

Thanks

Ben Myers

Hi

I'm trying to P2V a Windows 2003 Server into my vCenter 5.1 enviroment.

Using Converter Standalone version 5.1.0

All ports is open i firewalls, but still I get this error:

FAILED: An error occurred during the conversion:

'Platform-specific error 2338'

I attach a log file here, so if someone can help to figure out what is causing the error, I appreciate that:)

Hi ,  I have a physical server operating system is 2008 Server. Trying to do the P2V with latest Stand Alone converter. But every time its getting stuck on E drive. Without E drive i have tried to do the P2V and it is successfully completed with C D and F drive. Post when I tried to do the P2V only for E drive got failed with error "failed at 98% - Unable to find System Volume, reconfiguration is not possible. Error : An Error occurred during reconfiguration". Attached snap is for more information.

Kindly help me out from this problem. Thanks in advance.

Hi Cummunity,

it's the first time I need to ask for help with VMWare Products in the last 8 years.

I am migration from VMWorkstation 6.5.1 to ESXi 5.5. Workstation runs under Win XP SP3. There are two VM's to be converted. The first one is an XP SP3 Engine used for Kerio Mailserver (of course, it will me migrated to a newer OS - but as usual there are issues migration Kerio Connect from XP to CentOS - so we need to stay a bit longer with the running system).

The second VM is a MS Server 2008 driving a MS SQL Server.

The conversion of the XP VM was done without any issues. But with the MS Server VM conversion is failing again and again. It fails before entering to ESXi Host IP-Address.

(Please have a look into the attached log file)

Current situation:

VMWare Converter Standalone runs on a Windows 7 System, SP1, 12GB Ram. The MS Server VM have been copied to the local disk. The VM has two virtual disks (SCSI) in separated folders  and is running fine with the VMWorkstation (no log entries found, that there is already something worse).

After several failures I decided to copy everything into one folder and change the vmx conf file (for the second virtual disk I removed only the path, the first one did not have any path in the setup).

Coming from the converter log files, my first guess was that there is not enough space on C on the Windows 7 System left.

First question:

• Where can I change the temp path the converter is using or does the converter use the system temp path from the profile?

I moved some data from C to a another partion the get more free space (Freespace now 180GB).The VM has two virtual disks: Boot: 45GB persistent, and 24GB persistent.

Second questions:

• How may free disk space to I need for this converting action?

I started the Converter as Administrator but it fails again with the same error. I step deeper into the log files and found some more error messages e.g. for the GUI itself. For Instance:

"

2014-09-10T21:05:52.681+02:00 [01228 warning 'Locale'] Duplicate key 'hi_IN' in file 'D:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware vCenter Converter Standalone\locale\iso2win.vlcl', only first one is used

[...}

2014-09-10T21:37:22.943+02:00 [04412 warning 'Locale'] Resource module 'logic' not found for locale 'de', using from default locale...

2014-09-10T21:37:22.943+02:00 [04412 warning 'Locale'] Resource module 'logic' not found in default locale either. Using from English locale...

[...]

2014-09-10T21:37:39.652+02:00 [04412 error 'wizardController'] Cannot query source HW info: vmodl.fault.SystemError

2014-09-10T21:37:42.665+02:00 [02852 error 'wizardController'] Cannot query source HW info: vmodl.fault.SystemError

2014-09-10T21:49:44.064+02:00 [04860 error 'Default'] SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildFilter 3rd party type microsoftVirtualPCVM not found

2014-09-10T21:49:44.064+02:00 [04860 error 'Default'] SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildFilter 3rd party type parallelsVM not found

2014-09-10T21:49:44.064+02:00 [04860 error 'Default'] SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildFilter 3rd party type vmwareVCBBackup not found

2014-09-10T21:49:44.064+02:00 [04860 error 'Default'] SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildFilter 3rd party type livestateBackup not found

2014-09-10T21:49:44.064+02:00 [04860 error 'Default'] SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildFilter 3rd party type shadowProtectBackup not found

2014-09-10T21:49:44.064+02:00 [04860 error 'Default'] SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildFilter 3rd party type acronisBackup not found

2014-09-10T21:49:44.064+02:00 [04860 error 'Default'] SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildFilter 3rd party type vmwareVM not found

2014-09-10T21:49:44.064+02:00 [04860 error 'Default'] SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildThirdpartyHostedExtVector 3rd party type vmwareVM not found

[...]

2014-09-10T21:37:07.102+02:00 [01540 error 'Ufa.HTTPService'] Failed to read request; stream: <io_obj p:0x0135b604, h:-1, <pipe '\\.\pipe\vmware-converter-server-soap'>, <pipe '\\.\pipe\vmware-converter-server-soap'>>, error: class Vmacore::TimeoutException(Operation timed out)

2014-09-10T21:49:43.253+02:00 [00968 error 'Ufa.HTTPService'] Failed to read request; stream: <io_obj p:0x0139c39c, h:-1, <pipe '\\.\pipe\vmware-converter-server-soap'>, <pipe '\\.\pipe\vmware-converter-server-soap'>>, error: class Vmacore::TimeoutException(Operation timed out)

"

And from the worker log the conversion ends with this:

2014-09-10T21:37:22.936+02:00 [01416 info 'Default'] Sysimgbase_DiskLib_OpenWithPassPhrase failed with 'The specified virtual disk needs repair' (error code:14)

2014-09-10T21:37:22.936+02:00 [01416 info 'Default'] Error 14 opening disk D:\test\mssqlserver_c\Boot Windows Server 2008.vmdk.

2014-09-10T21:37:22.936+02:00 [01416 warning 'Default'] ERROR 14 opening disk D:\test\mssqlserver_c\Boot Windows Server 2008.vmdk.

2014-09-10T21:37:22.936+02:00 [01416 error 'Default'] [BaseDiskSetComputer::DoOpen] OpenDisks failed, mntapi error: 226

2014-09-10T21:37:22.936+02:00 [01416 error 'Default'] [BaseDiskSetComputer::AnalyzeErrorAndThrow] Error occurred when opening disk set, MNTAPI_ERROR = 226 MNTAPI errorType = 2, errorCode = 14

2014-09-10T21:37:22.936+02:00 [01416 info 'Default'] Scheduled timer canceled, StopKeepAlive succeeds

2014-09-10T21:37:22.936+02:00 [01416 error 'Default'] Unknown exception while invoking VMOMI method queryComputerInfo

2014-09-10T21:37:39.580+02:00 [01428 info 'Default'] Source path [D:\test\mssqlserver_c\Windows Server 2008.vmx] is mapped to [D:\test\mssqlserver_c\Windows Server 2008.vmx]

2014-09-10T21:37:39.580+02:00 [01428 info 'Default'] Source path [D:\test\mssqlserver_c\Windows Server 2008.vmx] is mapped to [D:\test\mssqlserver_c\Windows Server 2008.vmx]

2014-09-10T21:37:39.580+02:00 [01428 info 'Default'] Source path [D:\test\mssqlserver_c\Windows Server 2008.vmx] is mapped to [D:\test\mssqlserver_c\Windows Server 2008.vmx]

2014-09-10T21:37:39.580+02:00 [01428 info 'Default'] Creating vmx file parser

2014-09-10T21:37:39.580+02:00 [01428 info 'Default'] [BaseParserImpl::Parse] Config info is not cached

2014-09-10T21:37:39.580+02:00 [01428 info 'Default'] Parsing D:\test\mssqlserver_c\Windows Server 2008.vmx

2014-09-10T21:37:39.651+02:00 [01428 info 'Default'] Sysimgbase_DiskLib_OpenWithPassPhrase failed with 'The specified virtual disk needs repair' (error code:14)

2014-09-10T21:37:39.651+02:00 [01428 info 'Default'] Error 14 opening disk D:\test\mssqlserver_c\Boot Windows Server 2008.vmdk.

2014-09-10T21:37:39.651+02:00 [01428 warning 'Default'] ERROR 14 opening disk D:\test\mssqlserver_c\Boot Windows Server 2008.vmdk.

2014-09-10T21:37:39.651+02:00 [01428 error 'Default'] [BaseDiskSetComputer::DoOpen] OpenDisks failed, mntapi error: 226

2014-09-10T21:37:39.651+02:00 [01428 error 'Default'] [BaseDiskSetComputer::AnalyzeErrorAndThrow] Error occurred when opening disk set, MNTAPI_ERROR = 226 MNTAPI errorType = 2, errorCode = 14

2014-09-10T21:37:39.652+02:00 [01428 info 'Default'] Scheduled timer canceled, StopKeepAlive succeeds

2014-09-10T21:37:39.652+02:00 [01428 error 'Default'] Unknown exception while invoking VMOMI method queryComputerInfo

2014-09-10T21:37:42.595+02:00 [01428 info 'Default'] Source path [D:\test\mssqlserver_c\Windows Server 2008.vmx] is mapped to [D:\test\mssqlserver_c\Windows Server 2008.vmx]

2014-09-10T21:37:42.595+02:00 [01428 info 'Default'] Source path [D:\test\mssqlserver_c\Windows Server 2008.vmx] is mapped to [D:\test\mssqlserver_c\Windows Server 2008.vmx]

2014-09-10T21:37:42.595+02:00 [01428 info 'Default'] Source path [D:\test\mssqlserver_c\Windows Server 2008.vmx] is mapped to [D:\test\mssqlserver_c\Windows Server 2008.vmx]

2014-09-10T21:37:42.595+02:00 [01428 info 'Default'] Creating vmx file parser

2014-09-10T21:37:42.595+02:00 [01428 info 'Default'] [BaseParserImpl::Parse] Config info is not cached

2014-09-10T21:37:42.595+02:00 [01428 info 'Default'] Parsing D:\test\mssqlserver_c\Windows Server 2008.vmx

2014-09-10T21:37:42.664+02:00 [01428 info 'Default'] Sysimgbase_DiskLib_OpenWithPassPhrase failed with 'The specified virtual disk needs repair' (error code:14)

2014-09-10T21:37:42.664+02:00 [01428 info 'Default'] Error 14 opening disk D:\test\mssqlserver_c\Boot Windows Server 2008.vmdk.

2014-09-10T21:37:42.664+02:00 [01428 warning 'Default'] ERROR 14 opening disk D:\test\mssqlserver_c\Boot Windows Server 2008.vmdk.

2014-09-10T21:37:42.664+02:00 [01428 error 'Default'] [BaseDiskSetComputer::DoOpen] OpenDisks failed, mntapi error: 226

2014-09-10T21:37:42.664+02:00 [01428 error 'Default'] [BaseDiskSetComputer::AnalyzeErrorAndThrow] Error occurred when opening disk set, MNTAPI_ERROR = 226 MNTAPI errorType = 2, errorCode = 14

2014-09-10T21:37:42.664+02:00 [01428 info 'Default'] Scheduled timer canceled, StopKeepAlive succeeds

2014-09-10T21:37:42.664+02:00 [01428 error 'Default'] Unknown exception while invoking VMOMI method queryComputerInfo

2014-09-10T21:44:43.346+02:00 [01428 info 'Default'] Source path [D:\test\mssqlserver_c\Windows Server 2008.vmx] is mapped to [D:\test\mssqlserver_c\Windows Server 2008.vmx]

2014-09-10T21:44:43.346+02:00 [01428 info 'Default'] Source path [D:\test\mssqlserver_c\Windows Server 2008.vmx] is mapped to [D:\test\mssqlserver_c\Windows Server 2008.vmx]

2014-09-10T21:44:43.346+02:00 [01428 info 'Default'] Source path [D:\test\mssqlserver_c\Windows Server 2008.vmx] is mapped to [D:\test\mssqlserver_c\Windows Server 2008.vmx]

2014-09-10T21:44:43.346+02:00 [01428 info 'Default'] Creating vmx file parser

I am totally lost at the moment.

Hi All,

I am trying to convert a physical Linux machine to our ESX host, on the converter i can connect to the box, set the options including giving the helper VM a static IP as there is not DHCP on the network and i start the convert, when i look at the console on the ESX i can see the machine start to convert, it asks for a username and password to login to the helper which i do (i fixed the converter worker file to allow this) but once it logs in the conversion just sites there at 1% and does nothing else/ is there something i am missing?

Thanks.

Hello,

I've used the VMWare converter standalone on older PC's with out an issue.

When I tried to use this on a Lenovo Laptop running Windows 8.1 I get the following error when I select the destination.

The destination does not support EFI firmware.

I've selected destination type as VMWorkstation or other VMWare virtual machine.

I've selected the VMWare product as VMWare workstation 7.0.x

I'm not sure what I am doing incorrectly.

I've google for this but I don't seem to be getting any further forward with this one.

Can any one help?

Thank you.

Seamus

Hi,

my problem is to start a converted Windows 2008 r2 Foundation Server in ESXi 6.0

The process of making a VM from the running Windows System works without errors.

Starting the VM works without errors

But when i open a remote console, the console windows remains black. No error, no event information.

I can't find any hint in documentation of this behavior.

I'm using Vmware vCenter Converter Standalone Version: 6.0.0 build-2716716

Hello - during install of standalone converter on a Windows 7 Pro workstation I get the following error; install rolls back, does not complete. What is causing this?

VMware vCenter Converter 3.0.3 Build 89816 is listed in http://www.vmware.com/download/converter/

There is another version of Converter 4.0.2 u3 is listed in the download page under vCenter Server 2.5 update 3.

Are they the same besides the version number? I'm assuming that 4.0.2 is the latest Converter. Thanks.

Hi-

I have a Dell R710 Server running windows 2008 r2 standard. I tried running VCenter converter (P2V) but I received this error:

FAILED: Unable to create a VSS snapshot of the source volume(s). Error code:
2147754766 (0x8004230E). The readme suggests that this may have to do with a FAT partition.

My guess is that this has to do with a FAT 32 and OEM partition on the hard drive. Has anyone had any experience with this?

Disk 0

OEM Partition 39mb

OS FAT32 2GB
C NTFS 140 GB

By now I have been through several P2V and one V2V conversion using the VMWare converter 5.0, 5.1 and now 5.5 and all have suffered from very slow transfer rates. On 5.0 and 5.1 I have disabled SSL Encryption and while doing a local P2V from the physical machine or a P2V from a remote machine (all on a Gigabit LAN network) I have seen slow transfer rates of maybe 5 MB/s.

And now doing a V2V using 5.5, I am moving a VM from internal storage onto a SAN, I am seeing average of 2MB/sec transfer rates. This is with SSL enabled. And I am converting a 1.6TB VMDK (windows 2008) that has only 480GB used. For this particular V2V, I had to resize the volume and make it a thin from thick, so I realize a slower file level copy is taking place instead of a block level or volume level. But are these transfer rates "normal"?

Thanks for any and all feedback in advance.

2013-12-30T18:32:22.820+08:00 [03632 error 'Default'] [task,350] [LRO] Unexpected Exception: converter.fault.ManagedDiskOpenFault

2013-12-30T18:32:22.820+08:00 [03632 info 'Default'] [task,379] [task-5] -- ERROR -- Convert: converter.fault.ManagedDiskOpenFault

--> (converter.fault.ManagedDiskOpenFault) {

-->    dynamicType = <unset>,

-->    faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null,

-->    msg = "",

--> }

hello everyone,

I'm trying to convert a physical Windows 2008 R2 (SP1) to virtual, using Vmware vCenter Converter Standalone version 5.5 build 1362012, it fails at 1% (after around 40mins) with the following message

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

2147754758 (0x80042306).

The windows systems has some LUNS (4 x various GB size each) from the SAN, being GUID Partition Table (GPT).  I went through the wizard typically, selecting  "powered on machine", destination "vmware workstation or other vmware virtual machine" selected vmware player 6.0.x and the target location being a LUN with 500GB space.

Now for data to copy I selected 3 of the LUNS (on which some database is residing) and put "Min size" option (but I have tried maintaining the size for different runs) to save on space.

Looking through the logs, i see the following errors

vmware-converted-server-1.log

2014-01-16T19:42:37.371-07:00 [08696 info 'Default'] [serviceWin32,416] vmware-converter-server service started

2014-01-16T19:42:51.006-07:00 [08696 info 'Libs'] [ADS] Get user name failed: 1332

2014-01-16T19:42:51.006-07:00 [08696 info 'Libs'] [ADS] GetTokenInformation failed: 1312

2014-01-16T19:42:51.115-07:00 [08696 info 'Default'] [user,874] Successfully authenticated user Administrator from this local machine (using pipe)

2014-01-16T19:43:38.898-07:00 [10116 info 'Libs'] [ADS] Get user name failed: 1332

2014-01-16T19:43:38.898-07:00 [10116 info 'Libs'] [ADS] GetTokenInformation failed: 1312

2014-01-16T19:43:39.023-07:00 [10116 info 'Default'] [user,874] Successfully authenticated user Administrator from this local machine (using pipe)

2014-01-16T19:43:39.647-07:00 [07628 info 'ThreadPool'] Thread enlisted

2014-01-16T19:44:26.152-07:00 [08696 error 'Ufa.HTTPService'] Failed to read request; stream: <io_obj p:0x0141b84c, h:-1, <pipe '\\.\pipe\vmware-converter-server-soap'>, <pipe '\\.\pipe\vmware-converter-server-soap'>>, error: class Vmacore::TimeoutException(Operation timed out)

2014-01-16T19:47:32.

vmware-converte-worker-1.log

2014-01-16T19:47:34.323-07:00 [07248 warning 'Default'] Disk number 1 has been skipped because of errors while reading partition table

2014-01-16T19:47:34.323-07:00 [07248 warning 'Default'] Disk number 1 has been skipped because of errors while reading dynamic disks header or LDM database is corrupted

2014-01-16T19:47:34.323-07:00 [07248 warning 'Default'] [MoveActiveDiskIfNeeded] GetFirstBootDisk failed, mntapi error: 176

2014-01-16T19:47:34.323-07:00 [07248 warning 'Default'] Partition:Invalid sector magic number.

2014-01-16T19:47:34.323-07:00 [07248 warning 'Default'] Partition:Invalid sector magic number.

2014-01-16T19:47:34.323-07:00 [07248 warning 'Default'] [PopulateCapabilities] Volume-based cloning was disabled due to: <no volumes are recognized>

..

2014-01-16T19:47:34.323-07:00 [07248 warning 'Default'] Partition:ERROR: MBR sector must be present and valid to initialize GPT disk.

2014-01-16T19:47:34.354-07:00 [07248 info 'Default'] Disk signature found 80a2884a-05e9-4c1b-81-3d-35-1b-a3-6c-4b-bc, disk size in sectors 225981112, sector size 512

2014-01-16T19:47:34.354-07:00 [07248 info 'Default'] Partition found type Efi System / unique 4078aaff-430e-4825-bf-07-67-c6-ab-a1-87-3f

...

2014-01-16T19:47:37.365-07:00 [07596 info 'ThreadPool'] Thread delisted

2014-01-16T19:47:37.412-07:00 [10164 info 'ThreadPool'] Thread enlisted

2014-01-16T19:47:37.459-07:00 [07696 info 'Default'] MNTAPI: Mounted volume \\.\vstor2-mntapi20-shared-444D494F3A49443AFFAA78400E432548BF0767C6ABA1873F03000000\ FS:<>

2014-01-16T19:47:37.584-07:00 [07696 info 'Default'] Error 0 while call GetVolumeInformation for \\.\vstor2-mntapi20-shared-444D494F3A49443AFFAA78400E432548BF0767C6ABA1873F03000000\ FS:<>

2014-01-16T19:47:37.677-07:00 [07696 info 'Default'] Error 0 while call GetVolumeInformation for \\.\vstor2-mntapi20-shared-444D494F3A49443AFFAA78400E432548BF0767C6ABA1873F03000000\ FS:<>

2014-01-16T19:47:37.755-07:00 [07696 info 'Default'] Error 0 while call GetVolumeInformation for \\.\vstor2-mntapi20-shared-444D494F3A49443AFFAA78400E432548BF0767C6ABA1873F03000000\ FS:<>

2014-01-16T19:47:37.849-07:00 [07696 info 'Default'] Error 0 while call GetVolumeInformation for \\.\vstor2-mntapi20-shared-444D494F3A49443AFFAA78400E432548BF0767C6ABA1873F03000000\ FS:<>

2014-01-16T19:47:37.942-07:00 [07696 info 'Default'] Error 0 while call GetVolumeInformation for \\.\vstor2-mntapi20-shared-444D494F3A49443AFFAA78400E432548BF0767C6ABA1873F03000000\ FS:<>

2014-01-16T19:47:38.052-07:00 [07696 info 'Default'] Error 0 while call GetVolumeInformation for \\.\vstor2-mntapi20-shared-444D494F3A49443AFFAA78400E432548BF0767C6ABA1873F03000000\ FS:<>

2014-01-16T19:47:38.098-07:00 [10164 info 'ThreadPool'] Thread delisted

2014-01-16T19:47:38.098-07:00 [03736 info 'ThreadPool'] Thread enlisted

I wonder if the converter is not able to work on GPT partitions ?  (i think I've seen some community threads about this problem using v.5.1, but using 5.5 should be solved ?)

Any help is appreciated. Thanks

Hi there. Anyone else tried to convert a physical Ubuntu 14.04 installation? For me it fails at grub-version check it seems like.

I also tried it on 12.04 and it works fine. The differense is this:

12.04:

$ grub-install -v

grub-install (GRUB) 1.99-21ubuntu3.14

14.04:

$ grub-install -V

grub-install (GRUB) 2.02~beta2-9

In 14.04 I have to use capital V for version check. Is it possible to change this in the Converter? I'm using Converter version 5.5

The result seems to be that the converter installs the wrong version of grub, or not at all.

I'm trying to do a really simple conversion from Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 to ESXi machine version 8. It seems to copy okay, but on the first VM boot it does an NTFS disk check and finds a bunch of errors.

All major services are stopped (APC Powerchute, Windows Deployment Services, Backup Exec Agent) and the antivirus uninstalled. chkdsk has been run on the source hardware and found no problems.

And yet after the migration I see this on first boot:

Checking file system on C:

The type of the file system is NTFS.

One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. You may cancel the disk check, but it is strongly recommended that you continue.

Windows will now check the disk.                       

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...

The attribute of type 0x80 and instance tag 0x3 in file 0xe08c has allocated length of 0x1fec00000 instead of 0x1fecc0000.

Deleting corrupt attribute record (128, $J) from file record segment 57484.

Attribute record of type 0x80 and instance tag 0x3 is cross linked starting at 0x11a for possibly 0x1 clusters.

Some clusters occupied by attribute of type 0x80 and instance tag 0x3 in file 0xe120 is already in use.

Deleting corrupt attribute record (128, "") from file record segment 57632.

  199936 file records processed.

File verification completed.

  885 large file records processed.

  0 bad file records processed.

  0 EA records processed.

  104 reparse records processed.

CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...

  262480 index entries processed.

  Index verification completed.

  0 unindexed files scanned.

  0 unindexed files recovered.

CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...

  199936 file SDs/SIDs processed.

Cleaning up 8 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.

Cleaning up 8 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.

Cleaning up 8 unused security descriptors.

Security descriptor verification completed.

Inserting data attribute into file 57632.

  31274 data files processed.

CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...

Creating Usn Journal $J data stream

Usn Journal verification completed.

CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the volume bitmap.

Windows has made corrections to the file system.

  70936575 KB total disk space.

  50582732 KB in 152611 files.

    97136 KB in 31274 indexes.

        0 KB in bad sectors.

    269927 KB in use by the system.

    65536 KB occupied by the log file.

  19986780 KB available on disk.

      4096 bytes in each allocation unit.

  17734143 total allocation units on disk.

  4996695 allocation units available on disk.

Internal Info:

00 0d 03 00 59 ce 02 00 ac 1e 05 00 00 00 00 00  ....Y...........

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There is absolutely NO WAY that I am going to use this resulting conversion as our primary organization file server. Such corruption of the NTFS partition data is completely unacceptable. I have no way of knowing what "file record 57484 / 57632" are and if they are critical to the operation of the server.

Though I expect I already know what the problem is, and I cannot solve it by using VMWare Converter running on the Windows I'm trying to migrate.

Trying to copy a file system while it is in use is just inviting disaster because as you're copying data, something before or after wherever the copy is occurring may change so that the final copy result ends up being corrupted.

The only way to really prevent this mid-copy data corruption is to copy the partitions when they are not in use.

I have taken a couple of approaches to convert an existing Windows 98 physical machine to run in VMware (I am new to this, BTW).  I first tried converting the machine using the remote option but I got an error when it was attempting to install the agent.  Next I pulled the hard disk from the PC and put it in the same PC that I plan to run the VM on (WinXP Pro).  I used the local machine option and chose the hard disk containing the Windows 98 installation.  But the Wizard balked at not being able to find the OS and continuing led to eventual failure.  Not one to give up, I downloaded and installed Ghost 10 and successfully built an .sv2i image.  However, when I go to build the new vm from this standalone vm using this image I get an error when it tries to detect the operating system (Unable to determine guest operating system) and I cannot continue.

So, I thought Windows 98 was supported in a vm but am I wasting my time in trying to do this?

Thanks

Pete

Hi,

Is there any way to cold clone Windows 2008 R2 machine? As far as I know there is no vmware 5.1 boot cd for cold cloning. So I've tried to use latest cold clone cd (4.1.1 - 206170). Problem is that it is able to clone my machine BUT it is created as Other-32 bit machine on esxi server and when I'm trying to start this machine this operation simply ends with blue screen. I desperately need to do coldclone and not the hot clone and I need your help. Thanks.