Hi,
With both old school P2V and the new converter tool, we have to uninstall about 10 HP agents/tools from "Add/Remove Programs", manually uninstall the HP Network Configuration Utility, and delete two registry keys that "Add/Remove Programs" does not remove after the conversion is completed.
Does anyone have any sweet scripts or tools to do all this automatically?
Thanks
SlickBag
It took me 12 hours to convert a workstation vm (200G) to an ESX vm. Finished 100% with no error. However, when I power it on my ESX host, it says "error loading operation system". The Guest OS is Ubuntu Linux (32-bit). 1vCPU, 1024MB Memory. It was a vm originally on a workstation. Anything I am missing? Please help.
New thread from my post in http://communities.vmware.com/message/1341524#1341524.
I'm stuck with the issue of failed cloning of the /boot partition at 3%.
Source machine is a RHEL 3 box.
The DNS suffixes and servers are configured correctly in the converter task. I confirmed with tcpdump that the helper VM really does establish an SSH connection to the source machine. I also tried using only IP addresses in the task.
There is no firewall blocking communications between the converter server, the helper VM, source machine, vCenter or the ESX Host.
Note that I cloaked some specific information with stuff like or in those logs:
+All Users vmware-converter-server-2.log+
RecordOp ADD: event[35], task-1
HTTP Response: Complete (processed 6072 bytes)
Caught an exception while waiting on the agent task to complete. Gathering agent logs before propogating the exception further. Exception message: converter.fault.CloneFault
All Users vmware-converter-agent-3.log
Volume-based cloning --> updates, state: 1, percentage: 2, xfer rate (Bps): <unknown>
ConvertTask updates, state: 1, percentage: 3, xfer rate (Bps): <unknown>
HTTP Response: Complete (processed 1131 bytes)
updating on event (converter.event.UnixP2VVolumeCloningEvent) {
createdTime = "2009-08-19T13:14:32.617527Z",
RecordOp ADD: event[8], task-1
User agent is 'VMware-client/4.0.0'
HTTP Response: Client: NeedsContentLength: false UnderstandsChunking: true CanKeepAlive: true (PresetContentLength -1)
Converter Task GetEvent(taskID=task-1)
HTTP Response: Complete (processed 976 bytes)
User agent is 'VMware-client/4.0.0'
HTTP Response: Client: NeedsContentLength: false UnderstandsChunking: true CanKeepAlive: true (PresetContentLength -1)
updating on event (converter.event.UnixP2VVolumeCloneFailedEvent) {
createdTime = "2009-08-19T13:14:37.654289Z",
reason = (converter.fault.CloneFault) {
faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null,
description = "'/usr/lib/vmware-converter/copyFileSystem.sh --sshClient /usr/lib/vmware-converter/ssh --user --host --port 22 --sourceMountPoint /boot --targetMountPoint /mnt/p2v-src-root/boot --sshConfigFile /usr/lib/vmware-converter/ssh.conf --sourceTarOption --sparse --useSudo' failed. Return code: 2; message:
/usr/lib/vmware-converter/ssh -z -F /usr/lib/vmware-converter/ssh.conf @[IP_ADDRESS] -p 22 "sudo tar --one-file-system --sparse -C /boot -cf - ." | tar --numeric-owner -C /mnt/p2v-src-root/boot -y -xf -
Warning: Permanently added '[IP_ADDRESS]' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
RecordOp ADD: event[9], task-1
Converter Task GetEvent(taskID=task-1)
HTTP Response: Complete (processed 1853 bytes)
updating on taskInfo (converter.task.TaskInfo) {
task = 'converter.task.Task:task-1',
error = (converter.fault.CloneFault) {
faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null,
description = "'/usr/lib/vmware-converter/copyFileSystem.sh --sshClient /usr/lib/vmware-converter/ssh --user --host --port 22 --sourceMountPoint /boot --targetMountPoint /mnt/p2v-src-root/boot --sshConfigFile /usr/lib/vmware-converter/ssh.conf --sourceTarOption --sparse --useSudo' failed. Return code: 2; message:
/usr/lib/vmware-converter/ssh -z -F /usr/lib/vmware-converter/ssh.conf @[IP_ADDRESS] -p 22 "sudo tar --one-file-system --sparse -C /boot -cf - ." | tar --numeric-owner -C /mnt/p2v-src-root/boot -y -xf -
Warning: Permanently added '[IP_ADDRESS]' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
estimatedTimeRemaining = <unset>,
queueTime = "2009-08-19T13:12:35.448724Z",
startTime = "2009-08-19T13:12:35.448724Z",
completeTime = "2009-08-19T13:14:37.656567Z",
logBundleInfo = (converter.DiagnosticManager.TaskLogBundleInfo) null,
User agent is 'VMware-client/4.0.0'
HTTP Response: Client: NeedsContentLength: false UnderstandsChunking: true CanKeepAlive: true (PresetContentLength -1)
Volume-based cloning --> updates, state: 4, percentage: 2, xfer rate (Bps): <unknown>
converter-gui-5.log
"2009-08-19T13:12:37.700078Z",
userName = "[VC_USERNAME]",
fullMessage = "Partitioning the target disks.",
},
(converter.event.UnixP2VDiskFormattingEvent) {
dynamicType = <unset>,
key = 32,
chainId = 23,
type = "info",
createdTime = "2009-08-19T13:12:49.825234Z",
userName = "[VC_USERNAME]",
fullMessage = "Formatting the target partitions.",
},
(converter.event.UnixP2VVolumeCloningEvent) {
dynamicType = <unset>,
key = 33,
chainId = 23,
type = "info",
createdTime = "2009-08-19T13:14:34.826578Z",
userName = "[VC_USERNAME]",
fullMessage = "Starting to clone the volume mounted on '/boot' from '[IP_ADDRESS]'.",
hostName = "[IP_ADDRESS]",
sourceMountPoint = "/boot",
},
(converter.event.UnixP2VVolumeCloneFailedEvent) {
dynamicType = <unset>,
key = 34,
chainId = 23,
type = "error",
createdTime = "2009-08-19T13:14:39.748516Z",
userName = "[VC_USERNAME]",
fullMessage = "Failed to clone the volume mounted on '/boot' from '[IP_ADDRESS]'.",
hostName = "[IP_ADDRESS]",
sourceMountPoint = "/boot",
reason = (converter.fault.CloneFault) {
dynamicType = <unset>,
faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null,
description = "'/usr/lib/vmware-converter/copyFileSystem.sh --sshClient /usr/lib/vmware-converter/ssh --user --host --port 22 --sourceMountPoint /boot --targetMountPoint /mnt/p2v-src-root/boot --sshConfigFile /usr/lib/vmware-converter/ssh.conf --sourceTarOption --sparse --useSudo' failed. Return code: 2; message:
/usr/lib/vmware-converter/ssh -z -F /usr/lib/vmware-converter/ssh.conf @[IP_ADDRESS] -p 22 "sudo tar --one-file-system --sparse -C /boot -cf - ." | tar --numeric-owner -C /mnt/p2v-src-root/boot -y -xf -
Warning: Permanently added '[IP_ADDRESS]' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
xmalloc: zero size
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
",
msg = "An error occurred during the conversion.",
},
},
(converter.event.VmRemovedEvent) {
dynamicType = <unset>,
key = 35,
chainId = 23,
type = "info",
createdTime = "2009-08-19T13:15:04.092577Z",
userName = "[VC_USERNAME]",
fullMessage = "Removed the virtual machine '[VM_NAME]'.",
vmName = "[VM_NAME]",
As I see it, it boils down to this line:
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Any help on this?
@vmweathers
What exact commands am I supposed to run from another Linux machine to imitate the helper VM? I not entirely sure on what I'm supposed to run from the logs.
The issue in http://communities.vmware.com/message/1228109#1228109 seems not to be related.
What kind of sshd configuration issue do you have in mind?
or boot loader configuration file. Error: Windows VM Converter Standalone 6 trying to p2v powered on remote linux machine.
Here is my grub.conf.
#
# GRUB configuration file
#
# General configuration
background ffffff
color black/cyan black/light-gray
default 0
foreground 000000
hiddenmenu
splashimage (hd0,3)/boot/grub/3comSplash.xpm.gz
timeout 10
# Serial configuration
serial --unit=0 --speed=9600 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1
terminal serial
# OS Installation 'A'
title VCX Linux
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz ro root=LABEL=/A quiet console=ttyS0,9600n8
initrd /boot/initrd.img
Is there anything that I can edit to make this work?
Thanks!
Using Converter Standalone 6 client and attempting to convert a CentOS 6.5 physical box, the process goes to 97% and then gives this error: "Partition number must be set for the boot volume". The result was a virtual machine with disks that appeared to be of correct size, but would not boot. The target destination was vCenter 5.5 U2. In the converter worker log, I see a number of interesting items regarding disks, but am not sure what they might mean. What can I look for to troubleshoot this specific issue? Thanks.
HI, I'm just starting out P2Ving our servers and have noticed that after the process there are a lot of entries for Generic Volume Shadow Copy - listed in Device manager once hidden devices are shown as per the below:
set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1
The devices are not listed on the original (physical) server - even with show hidden devices. I have tried uninstalling these on test P2V's and the server seems to work fine, I'm wondering if removing these is going to cause an isseu further down the line though?
Many Thanks
Matt
Hi,
I'm trying to P2V a Windows Server 2003 SBS.
However i'm having some issues.
When i tried to convert the machine, it cloned the hard drives without any problems but when i started to reconfigure the machine it error'd at 98%
The machine popped up in my vSphere client and i tried to boot it. it caused a BSOD on startup.
After some reading i tried to reconfigure the machine from the vCenter converter but again i got an error.
I have seen some discussions in the community which seems to describe the same problem,
however none of them have a solution.
Kind Regards
Robin
I am trying to convert the Linux based VM that is hosed on hyper-V 2012 host machine, using VMware converter standalone utility, option "Power on" but it failed at 1 % and prompt error message that is attached with this post for reference.
Please help out...
Hello all,
We have a large SQL server that we would like to virtualize into our datacenter. I attempted to do this over this weekend, but found that it was going to take 4.5 days to complete. I was trying to do this over a 100MB MPLS connection. We're looking at about 3TB of data to migrate. Before I started the conversion, I stopped all of the SQL services. This of course takes our databases down. We cannot be down for 4 days however. I pretty much have 2 days to get this done.
My question is: Can I leave my databases (Sharepoint) up and running while I do the conversion and then schedule the synchronization of changes when I want to move over to the virtual server?
It was my understanding that this would not update the database changes. Is that the case?
Thanks,
T
Can some one explain me the background process of V2V. how the files are copied from one Datacenter to other datacenter. which port group it will use?
Greetings,
I am somewhat of a VMware novice, but currently have two (soon to be three) ESXi hosts under my belt. They are all at separate locations.
I was not involved in the existing server in any way prior to this, but now it is mine. I was "thrown to the wolves" after the fact.
This will be the first "production" P2V conversion I am attempting. Though it will be the only VM on the host at this time, I do anticipate further VMs on this host in the future.
Given my restrictions, I would like to know the easiest way to do this conversion. The last two hosts I did were new installs (Server 2012 Essentials and Std), not conversions. Though, just for learning purposes, I DID do standalone P2V conversions of both of the existing physical servers, but never put them into production. I can't remember if I actually spun them up or not. It was a while ago. I think I did. They were both SBS 2003 physical servers. For a variety of reasons I do not have the luxury of a new install with this new system.
New host: HP ML350p Gen 8. 64 GB RAM, 1+ TB usable RAID 5 internal storage. 2 Xeon 6 core CPUs. ESXi 5.5.0 Upd 2. The latest HP firmware updates.
Existing physical server: Dell something. 1 Xeon 3060, 4 GB RAM, 300 GB non redundant internal storage (one 300 gb volume). Windows SBS 2011 Std. Running Exchange Server (2010) and SQL for SBS monitoring & SharePoint.
The existing physical server is the only server on the network, is (obviously) a domain controller, and the network is "flat". One subnet, no routing.
As mentioned above I have run the converter on a couple of other machines, They were both single servers, on single subnets but neither of them were running Exchange, SQL or Sharepoint.
The various forums and and information I could find on the net has for the most part, been conflicting and sometimes confusing as well.
I did find a couple of posts that mentioned stopping both Exchange and SQL before the conversion. This seems to make sense for obvious reasons. What else do I need to know of/should be aware of/watch out for etc.
Thanks for any insight you may be able to provide.
I'm trying to move a Linux VM from Hyper-V to VMware. The VM is powered off and when I run the converter tool and select source type: powered off, Hyper-V server and put in the server credentials of the Linux box it fails to contact the host. I have no problem with Windows Servers in the Hyper-V environment, is there something I need to do differently with Linux?
Error log
error vmware-converter-worker[03468] [Originator@6876 sub=Ufa.HTTPService] Failed to read request; stream: <io_obj p:0x01e8282c, h:-1, <pipe '\\.\pipe\vmware-converter-worker-soap'>, <pipe '\\.\pipe\vmware-converter-worker-soap'>>, error: class Vmacore::TimeoutException(Operation timed out)
warning vmware-converter-worker[03460] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Failed to connect socket; <io_obj p:0x01460f58, h:2152, <TCP '0.0.0.0:0'>, <TCP '<IP Address>:9089'>>, e: system:10060(A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond)
error vmware-converter-worker[03460] [Originator@6876 sub=HttpConnectionPool-000000] [ConnectComplete] Connect failed to <cs p:01c27100, TCP:<IP Address>:9089>; cnx: (null), error: class Vmacore::SystemException(A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond)
I'm trying to convert a running linux vm to a vmware workstation vm.
I found out that i need a ESX Host. I installed a ESX Server.
While trying to connect to the ESX Host (from the VMware Converter) at the Step Target System (VMware Infrastructure-Server) I get an "SSL Exception: Unexpected EOF" error.
I tried already disableing SSL for the converter worker process.
Is there another way to convert a running linux vm to a vmware workstation vm?
If not, how can i fix the SSL error?
Regards
Christof
Hello,
I have been tasked with moving a number of preexisting Virtual Machines from their existing physical hardware to a new server which is running Vsphere 5. I have succesfully converted one VM already which was running Server 2003 standard and it has moved and is operational in its new home. I have a second system with similar specifications (Also a VM) and I am having nothing but problems.
It has been my experience the whole time that I would run into communication issues but I was always able to get past them. When starting the conversion wizard (I am using vcenter converter 5) I will have to try to communicate with the system to converted at least 3 times before it will actually allow me to proceed. If the converter agent isn't installed on the source machine it does manage to get that done but will give me an error the first time about communicating with the server but if I keep hitting next it will proceed and I can fill out the rest of the details in the wizard.
My problem is this: Once I hit finish at the end it will submit the task and then start but fail quickly with the following: FAILED: Unable to establish a secure communication channel between the vCenter Converter server and the remote machine at x.x.x.x on port 5555. Verify that the remote machine is running, the firewall is turned off, and the vCenter Converter agent service is running and listening on port 5555. Error details: 'SSL Exception: The SSL handshake timed out local: x.x.x.x:xxxx peer: x.x.x.x:
5555.'
I have removed the ipaddresses above. The two systems are on the same subnet and I confirmed that the firewall is down, and something is listening on port 5555. Note: As I mentioned before I successfully converted a VM hosted on the same server as the one I am talking about above.
I've been fighting with this all day so any help would be very welcome! I thank you in advance and hope to hear back from someone soon.
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).
This should be considered also request for adding features.
I had an old PC with AMD CPU, VIA KT333 chipset and with Windows 2000 Professional dual/triple booting Windows 98 and kubuntu. I tried to convert Windows 2000:
1. Installed VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 4.0.1 on my new PC with kubuntu. It detected that my old PC with Windows 2000 started has no agent installed by trying to connect to TCP port 9089 and then asked to deploy agent. After waiting about 1-2 minutes deployment failed. I checked with Wireshark - no one IP packet was sent to the remote PC. Bug #1: Linux version of VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 4.0.1 doesn't try to install agent on the remote machine.
2. Downloaded VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 4.0.1 for Windows and manually installed agent. After starting the service, agent listened only on 127.0.0.1 (localhost). I had to manually edit a Other fix #1: D:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware vCenter Converter Standalone\converter-agent.xml file and to change Config/plugins/ufa_agent/enableRemoteAccess to true.
3. I connected to the agent but conversion failed after 2 hours at reconfiguration stage. There was a warning that I have no sysprep tools. I downloaded them and copied them where needed but after 2 hours the conversion failed again.
4. I installed VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 4.0.1 server and client on the old PC and converted local machine. Conversion again failed. Then I found that I have to look for agent logs about the reason - Other fix # 2: had to increase manually the maximum registry size with 20 MB.
5. After another 2 hours conversion was finally successful! But the virtual Windows failed to start - it gave "Inaccessible boot device". I tried to "Configure machine" with the button, but received "unable to locate system volume". I converted both C: (boot partition) and D: (system partition) successfully but anyway the converter cannot find D: (???). Also I found http://communities.vmware.com/thread/219778 where I found "If this was a dual boot setup, then I don't think it's supported.", written by VMware vExpert 2009.
6. I found following KB article in MS site, strangely written only in Dutch: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/271965/nl Thanks to google it is readable in English here: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=nl&u=http://support.microsoft.com/kb/271965/nl&ei=owv0TICaEYnHswav4-SeCw&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCUQ7gEwAQ&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dkb%2B271965%26hl%3Den%26prmd%3Div
There is a very simple solution to the problem - Bug #2 (most important): had to import following in the registry before conversion:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
"ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}"
"Service"="atapi"
"ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}"
"Service"="atapi"
"ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}"
"Service"="atapi"
"ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}"
"Service"="atapi"
"ClassGUID"="{4D36E967-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}"
"Service"="disk"
"ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}"
"Service"="pciide"
"ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}"
"Service"="pciide"
"ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}"
"Service"="pciide"
"ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}"
"Service"="pciide"
"ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}"
"Service"="pciide"
"ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}"
"Service"="pciide"
"ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}"
"Service"="pciide"
"ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}"
"Service"="pciide"
"ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}"
"Service"="pciide"
"ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}"
"Service"="pciide"
"ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}"
"Service"="pciide"
"ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}"
"Service"="pciide"
"ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}"
"Service"="pciide"
"ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}"
"Service"="pciide"
"Service"="pciide"
"ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}"
"ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}"
"Service"="intelide"
"ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}"
"Service"="intelide"
"ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}"
"Service"="intelide"
"ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}"
"Service"="intelide"
"ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}"
"Service"="intelide"
"ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}"
"Service"="intelide"
"ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}"
"Service"="intelide"
;Add driver for Atapi (requires atapi.sys in drivers directory)
"ErrorControl"=dword:00000001
"Group"="SCSI miniport"
"Start"=dword:00000000
"Tag"=dword:00000019
"Type"=dword:00000001
"DisplayName"="Standard IDE/ESDI Hard Disk Controller"
"ImagePath"=hex(2):53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,44,00,\ 52,00,49,00,56,00,45,00,52,00,53,00,5c,00,61,00,74,00,61,00,70,00,69,00,2e,\
00,73,00,79,00,73,00,00,00
;Add driver for intelide (requires intelide.sys in drivers directory)
"ErrorControl"=dword:00000001
"Group"="System Bus Extender"
"Start"=dword:00000000
"Tag"=dword:00000004
"Type"=dword:00000001
"ImagePath"=hex(2):53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,44,00,\ 52,00,49,00,56,00,45,00,52,00,53,00,5c,00,69,00,6e,00,74,00,65,00,6c,00,69,\
00,64,00,65,00,2e,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,00,00
;Add driver for pciide (requires pciide.sys and pciidex.sys in drivers directory)
"ErrorControl"=dword:00000001
"Group"="System Bus Extender"
"Start"=dword:00000000
"Tag"=dword:00000003
"Type"=dword:00000001
"ImagePath"=hex(2):53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,44,00,\ 52,00,49,00,56,00,45,00,52,00,53,00,5c,00,70,00,63,00,69,00,69,00,64,00,65,\
00,2e,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,00,00
Also had to extract following 4 files from %System Root%\Driver Cache\i386\driver.cab to %System Root%\system32\drivers:
Atapi.sys, Intelide.sys, Pciide.sys and Pciidex.sys.
After this and another 2 hours of conversion everything works perfectly on the virtual machine!!!
Hello friends,
I'm using converter 4.0 for to cold clone a windows 7, but this message is displayed.
How I can to solve ?
Please!! i think that i try all !!!
Attach my log files
Thanks in advance,
Christian W
Good morning,
My boss is bringing me up to speed on virtualization of our systems and we are migrating servers from vMware 4.1 to a new 5.5 server. He has been converting them by installing the vCenter converter software on the 4.1 vm and selecting "physical machine" (even though its a vm) to send it to our 5.5 server. I on the other hand wished to install the vCenter software on my local PC and convert the 4.1 vm using the VMWare infrastructure option to send it to our 5.5 server. Are there any benefits or declines to either way versus another?
Specifically I'm curious of if infrastructure mode is slower than "physical machine" as the 4.1 server must upload to the 5.5 server through my machine, or if those two servers are transmitting between themselves and my local machine just setup the job and is able to monitor its progress.
Thanks,
Colin
Hi,
I have several VM's on 2 locations, one datacenter that is managed by us on our site and several VM's hosted on external hosting company datacenter.
Our own platform runs for now version 4.3 and the remote location run 5.1
I need to import few VM's from the remote location to our own location and trying to do that using Converter 5.1 hot-cloning.
The converter is installed on dedicated VM with external NIC that is reachable from the remote location and internal NIC that is connected to the vcenter and the ESXi hosts.
The converter is able to connect to the remote VM and get all settings done, but when I'm trying to run it, it fails at 1% with the error "Platform specific error 2338"
I checked the logs and so far was able to find out only those errors:
warning 'Default'] Disk number 1 has been skipped because of errors while reading partition table
warning 'Default'] Disk number 1 has been skipped because of errors while reading dynamic disks header or LDM database is corrupted
warning 'Default'] [MoveActiveDiskIfNeeded] GetFirstBootDisk failed, mntapi error: 176
warning 'Default'] Partition:Invalid sector magic number
warning 'Default'] [PopulateCapabilities] Volume-based cloning was disabled due to: <no volumes are recognized>
Any idea what can be the problem here and how it can be resolved?
I saw that those errors are mentioned with Converter 4.3, but I'm using Converter 5.1
The source VM is Windows 7SP1
Attaching the log for more information.
Any help will be highly appreciated.
I am trying to convert a Windows 2000 SP4 (SCSI attached 12GB c:\ drive, 1024MB memory) running on Microsoft Virtual Server over to VMware(Version 3.5.0 Build 123630) using VMware converter 3.0.3-89816. The conversion process completes successfully, but when I try to start the server in VMware I receive a page fault in non paged area win32k.sys BSOD. Any ideas? Thanks.