Hi Guys,

I am trying to convert VMs from Hyper V to ESXI and i am running into this error "A General System Error Occur: Invalid Fault"

I am running vmware esxi server 5.5.0 build 1623387 and vmware vsphere converter 5.5.1 build 1682692. I am trying to convert a windows 2008 server r2 machine.

I have been doing some reading on the internet and have not been able to find a solution but have found a lot of people having these issues

My logs are attached

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.

I think this is by default, but not sure, as everything I try when doing P2V & V2V (using VMware converter V5.5.1) results in a new virtual server in my VMware 5.1 infrastructure, in vCenter, but less any networking configurations.

My source servers are all statically IP assigned but the resulting virtual machine is set to DHCP no matter what options I choose. And when I view hidden devices on the target machine using Device Manger, it shows the original NIC- but hidden from the OS. Can someone confirm this is the case?

Thanks.

Source virtual farm: Version 4.1

Source physical machines: HP Proliant

Hi everybody,

I have a physical Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition OEM. The virtual key has been already used for another VM which is running with Virtual Box inside the S2008.

I want to virtualise it and run it in a new physical server with ESXi.

I understood that I need to buy a new Windows server 2008 License for it, because it will ask me to reactivate.

Next: I want to keep the old physical server as backup. I will install ESXi on it. The W2008 VM will run on it only when the new primary server will fail.

Which kind of license do I have to buy for the new server? If it is OEM, I will need to reactivate the VM when I will move it to the old server, right? and again, when the primary server will be available, I will need another activation with the same key.

I can not access to the Volume License because I need to buy minimum 5 licenses.

I wait some suggestions. Thank you

i have a esxi server on a PC and a physical oracle linux 5 on another one.

i tried to convert physical oracle to a virtual through a third PC by a vmware conveter 5.5 but on 99% it failed with log blow.

FAILED: An error occurred during the conversion: 'InitrdNativePatcher failed to generate initrd image: /usr/lib/vmware-converter/initrdGenRhel.sh failed with return code: 1, and message: * /mnt/p2v-src-root/dev has 3 files Creating initramfs Modulefile is /etc/modprobe.conf Looking for deps of module sd_mod: scsi_mod Looking for deps of module scsi_mod Looking for deps of module sd_mod: scsi_mod Looking for deps of module ehci-hcd Looking for deps of module ohci-hcd Looking for deps of module uhci-hcd Looking for deps of module ext3: jbd Looking for deps of module jbd Looking for driver for device sdb1 Looking for deps of module mptbase Looking for deps of module mptscsih: scsi_mod mptbase Looking for deps of module mptsas: scsi_mod scsi_transport_sas mptbase mptscsih Looking for deps of module scsi_transport_sas: scsi_mod Looking for deps of module mptspi: scsi_mod scsi_transport_spi mptbase mptscsih Looking for deps of module scsi_transport_spi: scsi_mod Looking for deps of module shpchp Looking for deps of module ahci: scsi_mod libata Looking for deps of module libata: scsi_mod Looking for deps of module ide-disk Looking for deps of module dm-mod Looking for deps of module dm-mirror: dm-mod dm-log Looking for deps of module dm-log: dm-mod Looking for deps of module dm-zero: dm-mod Looking for deps of module dm-snapshot: dm-mod Looking for deps of module dm-mem-cache Looking for deps of module dm-region_hash: dm-mod dm-log Looking for deps of module dm-message Looking for deps of module dm-raid45: dm-message dm-mod dm-mem-cache dm-log dm-region_hash Using modules: /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/scsi/sd_mod.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/usb/host/ohci-hcd.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/usb/host/uhci-hcd.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/fs/jbd/jbd.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/fs/ext3/ext3.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/message/fusion/mptscsih.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_sas.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/message/fusion/mptsas.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_spi.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/message/fusion/mptspi.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/pci/hotplug/shpchp.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/ata/libata.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/ata/ahci.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/md/dm-mod.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/md/dm-log.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/md/dm-mirror.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/md/dm-zero.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/md/dm-snapshot.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/md/dm-mem-cache.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/md/dm-region_hash.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/md/dm-message.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/md/dm-raid45.ko /sbin/nash -> /tmp/initrd.iz2976/bin/nash /sbin/insmod.static -> /tmp/initrd.iz2976/bin/insmod /etc/udev/rules.d/05-udev-early.rules -> /tmp/initrd.iz2976/etc/udev/rules.d/05-udev-early.rules /sbin/firmware_helper.static -> /tmp/initrd.iz2976/sbin/firmware_helper /sbin/udevd.static -> /tmp/initrd.iz2976/sbin/udevd copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/scsi_mod.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/scsi/sd_mod.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/sd_mod.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/ehci-hcd.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/usb/host/ohci-hcd.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/ohci-hcd.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/usb/host/uhci-hcd.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/uhci-hcd.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/fs/jbd/jbd.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/jbd.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/fs/ext3/ext3.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/ext3.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/mptbase.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/message/fusion/mptscsih.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/mptscsih.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_sas.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/scsi_transport_sas.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/message/fusion/mptsas.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/mptsas.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_spi.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/scsi_transport_spi.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/message/fusion/mptspi.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/mptspi.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/pci/hotplug/shpchp.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/shpchp.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/ata/libata.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/libata.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/ata/ahci.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/ahci.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/md/dm-mod.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/dm-mod.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/md/dm-log.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/dm-log.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/md/dm-mirror.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/dm-mirror.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/md/dm-zero.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/dm-zero.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/md/dm-snapshot.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/dm-snapshot.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/md/dm-mem-cache.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/dm-mem-cache.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/md/dm-region_hash.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/dm-region_hash.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/md/dm-message.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/dm-message.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/md/dm-raid45.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/dm-raid45.ko' [elf64-x86-64] /sbin/lvm.static -> /tmp/initrd.iz2976/bin/lvm /sbin/dmraid.static -> /tmp/initrd.iz2976/bin/dmraid /sbin/kpartx.static -> /tmp/initrd.iz2976/bin/kpartx Adding module scsi_mod Adding module sd_mod Adding module ehci-hcd Adding module ohci-hcd Adding module uhci-hcd Adding module jbd Adding module ext3 Adding module mptbase Adding module mptscsih Adding module scsi_transport_sas Adding module mptsas Adding module scsi_transport_spi Adding module mptspi Adding module shpchp Adding module libata Adding module ahci Adding module dm-mod Adding module dm-log Adding module dm-mirror Adding module dm-zero Adding module dm-snapshot Adding module dm-mem-cache Adding module dm-region_hash Adding module dm-message Adding module dm-raid45 cpio: write error: No space left on device * user script returning code 1 * unmounting /mnt/p2v-src-root/dev /mnt/p2v-src-root/proc and /mnt/p2v-src-root/sys ERROR:

failed running mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-371.el5.img 2.6.18-371.el5 with chroot /mnt/p2v-src-root '

any solution for this problem? can i edit my virtual machine on esxi to solve the problem or should I reconvert it?

Hello hopefully somebody can answer this.

Our virtual machine is running vmware server ESX 3i 3.5.0  It has 2 hard drives, datastore1 and datastore2.   All our virtual servers are stored in datastore2.   Our hard drive containing datastore2 crashed and it had to be replaced.    We have virtual appliance backups of our virtual servers in datastore2.  

To fix the issue we replaced the crashed hard disk, and then restored using the virtual appliance backups, once restored we noticed that the Windows 2008 is requiring license activation.

My question is why does windows need activation when we restored the virtual server to the same hardware? The only thing that changed was the  hard disk.

Thanks for any help on this question.

Converter 5.5.3, ESXI 6.0, P2V.  "An error occurred during the conversion: 'converter.fault.FileIOFault'"

The Job failed at 35%.  When I looked up the error it says that a HD error occurred and that I need to do a defrag.  Before I do this I want to check and make sure that 5.5.3 converter is compatible with ESXi 6.  I can't seem to find anything on this.

This is my environment:

Physical Box: IBM, Intel Dual 8c processors, 16 GB Ram, Raid 10

Virtual environment: (host)Dell r620, Intel Dual 8c processors, 64 GB Ram.  (san) Equallogic 6100, Raid 10

Thanks all, I just dont want to waste my time doing a defrag if the converter is not compatible.

Does anyone know how I can install or run VMWare Converter Standalone on WinPE?

This is the Windows preboot execution environment provided with Windows Deployment Services on Server 2008 R2. It is a severely hobbled version of Windows 7 or 2008 R2 with most system services stripped out, and has a forced 24-hour reboot to annoy people trying to use it as an unlicensed Windows desktop OS.

Due to WinPE being so severely hobbled, can't use MSI installers on WinPE because it lacks the necessary support. If I try to launch the VMWare Converter installer after booting into WinPE, it simply says "the required subsystem is not available" and quits.

Hi

I'm trying to convert a fusion VM running 32bit linux to run on my ESXi 6 server ... the conversion seems to go ok but the converted VM doesn't boot - i'm getting a call stack dump on the OS boot screen, which I can't figure out as I can't scroll up on that to see what blew up.

I did notice however, when I was in the conversion wizard, a warning: 'the destination guest os cannot be reconfigured' which I suspect may have something to do with it.

Any ideas where to go from here?

TIA

Hello All,

I use Esxi 6 as my destination and Converter 6.1

I have 3 Debian servers, 2 remote and 1 on same LAN. All the 3 servers are installed the same way, the only differences are on the domains hosted on them.

One of the remote server can be converted with no problems, the other 2 can't be converted as I get the Unable to query live source machine.

I've checked all the guidelines: ssh access, correct root user and password with shell access and also private key, /tmp writable, etc..

Diagnostics log gives me also this error for the connection that failed: Cannot query source HW info: converter.fault.SysinfoQueryFault

Any ideas on how to solve this?

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?

Hi,

I have tried to contact vmWare by email, but no answer on any of my emails.
I need download link for old version of the software 5.0.x or 4.3, but on the download section can only download 5.5 version, which doesnt work with Windows XP.
Any idea where to download it?

Thanx in advance.

Hi

I am trying to convert a Dell PE2400 running WINNT 4.0 SP6.

The server has two hardware raids set up:

1* RAID1 with 2* 9GB drives - Two partitons C & D on this RAID

1* RAID 5 with  3* 9GB drives - One Partiton E on this

I get the useful message "Unable to determine Guest Operating system" when trying the conversion.

I have tried the following methods with no luck so far.

1) Install VMware Converter 3.01 onto physical server, reboot server, stop any uncessary services (many) and try P2V to ESX server - Stops with error "Unable to determine Guest Operating system"

2) Boot off Cold Clone CD. Connect to ESX server, Start P2V, conversion crashes out at 2% with "Error: Unknown error returned by VMware converter agent". The vm is created on the ESX server, it just crashes out, then deletes the vm after wards

3) Use Shadow Protect to take images of each drive and try opening the images using the VMware converter. Again I get a "Unable to determine Guest Operating system" message.

4) Tried restoring the Shadow Protect images onto a vitual disk thatwas partitioned correctly. This gave me a Inaccessible boot device message which I eected as the VMware SCSI driver isnt loaded into the OS. But I had to try.

I have tried a number of different suggestions from the forums, like adjusting the impersonate levels. Check Boot.ini etc, but none have worked.

I have the logs from the various attempts also.

I am tempted to install the vmware scsi driver on the server, reboot and take a Shadow protect image again and see if that works. Used to with Ghost.

Any suggestions welcomed.

Cheers

David

Hi,

I'm trying to perfrom a p2v conversion but it keeps failing with the same error:

The server is an IBM System x3400 M3 Server, with a LSI Logic SAS1064ET controller. The main booting partition is on RAID-1 (hardware) with a data partition on another single disk.

To me I guess there is some disk problem, could the RAID-1 array be causing problems? Do I need to revert to a single disk?

Thanks,

Richard

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 = "",

--> }

Hi,

We have converted a physical Fujitsu Siemens Server with Windows 2003 Server SP2/R2 to a Vmware ESX 3.02 virtual machine with vmware converter and gotten several bluescreens when the administrators logs out from the server. Any ideas on how to solve this is appreciated!

Kind Regards

Olof

Hello,

I'm trying to convert s Windows 2008 32 bit VM from VServer to ESXi 5.1. It always errors with the above message. I have tried using VmWare Converter 5.1, 5.01 and 4.3.  Using 4.3 I get a further (I get a "A general system error occurred: Invalid fault" when I click the finish button.)  I did get the converter 5.1 to work with s 2003 32-bit OS I had.

Some things I tried:

- Changed VM type from 2008 to 2003

- Powered the machine up and then shutdown cleanly

- Made sure there was nothing weird with in the configuration that could hang the conversion up like NIC configurations, etc.

I really have no idea what to do at this point.  I have tried every solution and workaround I have found through Google and nothing seems to work. Not really sure where to go from here.  Anyone out there have anything that has worked for them?

Thanks,

Adam

I'm trying to convert a remote linux server, and have run into a problem. I launch VMware vCenter Converter Standalone and can successfully connect to the remote machine (by IP address or hostname). However, the next thing it does is give the following error:

There is no '/boot' directory mounted on the source machine. It is required to create a bootable virtual machine. Please mount the '/boot' directory on the source machine.

However, /boot is mounted, as shown when I use SSH to connect to the source machine (using the same user/pass as provided to VMware Converter) and run mount -l:

/dev/md0 on /boot type ext3 (rw) []

Anybody run into this problem before? Any suggested solutions? The source machine is running Centos 4 (RHEL 4 clone).

Hello all,

I am usind vmWare vCenter Converter Standalone 5.0 to run a P2V on a server that is running Windows 2003.  I have ran two different P2V's this 2003 server with success over the past three week.  I am tryng to run another P2V on this server now.  On the deploying of the agent I receive the following error "Unable to complete vCenter Converter install.  Error code 1,603".

Any suggestions on how to resolve this issue?

Why would this error start now after running successfully, everything I was reading was saying to check port settings, none o those have changed.

Thanks for your help..

I'm using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone client, v5.0.0 build-470252, running on a Windows 7 64bit computer, trying to import a running Windows 2008 virtual machine (hosted by VMWare infrastructure) onto my local box.

On starting the converter, I "Connect to a local server"

Specifying the source system goes smoothly, though I ignore the certificate error.  The conversion wizard installs its agent and connects to it OK.

For the Destination System I specify:

Destination type: VMware Workstation or other VMware virtual machine
VMware product: VMware Workstation 8.0.x
Virtual machine details:
    Name: same as source system, as detected by the converter
    Location for the virtual machine: \\localmachine\sharedfoldername
    Username & password: my Windows 7 login credentials, with Full Control over \\localmachine\sharedfoldername, both the share and the underlying folder.

When the converter verifies the destination parameters, it reports: Unable to connect to the network share '\\localmachine\sharedfoldername'"

Investigative steps so far:
- Connecting to the share via Windows Explorer works fine; it is possible to write to the share

- I tried specifying the share as "\\localhost\sharedfoldername", but get "The specified network share 'localhost\sharedfoldername' does not exist."  This was a bit of a long shot I guess, but the form does work in Windows Explorer.

- Have tried with file and print sharing both on and off - seemed worth a try after looking at other posts on this forum

The Help states "If you are connected to a local Converter Standalone server, provide a network path or a local path to the destination directory."  I tried local path "C:\Virtual Machines\sharedfoldername", but got the message "Error: Destination specified as a (local) drive.  Please specify a UNC path such as: \\machine\sharename"

The help also states "You do not have to provide user credentials if the destination location is on the local storage of the machine where Converter Standalone server runs."  However the Next button is always disabled until credentials are provided.

Can anyone help please?