Hi,

I'm having trouble with installation of VMware vCenter Converter Standalone on my Windows 7 Enterprise workstation. I tried installing different versions (6.1.1, 6.0.0, 5.5.3, 5.5.2) and every time I get the error "could not extract file ." (with no file name mentioned, as you can see in the attached file) after installation begins (I passed all the installation questions successfully).

Prviously I had v5.5.2 installed, I installed v5.5.3 succesfully without uninstalling previous version. As I wanted to install the latest version, I wanted to make it cleanly, so I uninstalled my current version (5.5.3), and now I can't install any version, even my v5.5.2 that was previsouly installed.

Did someone already had this problem and found a solution ? Or do you have any idea that could help me ?

I tried to run the installer as administrator, but it didn't change anything.

In case it could have side effects, I have these VMware products installed :

- VMware Player

- VMware vSphere Client 4.1

- VMware vSphere Client 5.1

- VMware vSphere Client 5.5

To test the installer, I installed v6.1.1 on windows 2003 and I had no problem.

Hi there,

I'm looking to migrate a physical machine to my ESXi cluster with vCenter Converter but actually I got this following error :

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

Is it possible to ignore this message ? Actually this server is in production and I don't have any space left on my hard drive to create another partition.

I would like to know if we can convert a physical machine to a VM without a dedicated /boot partition.

Note: I got a /boot folder but mounted on my /

If someone got any advice about this will be helpfull

Trying to P2V a Win 2008 R2 machine. Largest Physical disk is 2 TB. Yes dynamic disks. Not re-sizing, Failed at 96% after more than 2 days

Here's what I found in the worker log (attached)

2014-11-02T20:34:32.355-08:00 [09880 info 'task-1'] GetManagedDiskName: Get disklib file name as vpxa-nfcssl://[DataStore] [MachineName]_3-000002.vmdk@[HostName]:902!52 92 92 fc 65 6a fb b3-81 c1 cd f4 83 68 a8 29

2014-11-02T20:34:33.652-08:00 [09880 warning 'Default'] [,0] [NFC ERROR] NfcFssrvrProcessErrorMsg: received diskLib error 18 from server: NfcFssrvrOpen: Failed to open '[DataStore] [MachineName]-000002.vmdk': The parent virtual disk has been modified since the child was created. The content ID of the parent virtual disk does not match the corresponding parent

2014-11-02T20:34:33.652-08:00 [09880 info 'Default'] Sysimgbase_DiskLib_OpenWithPassPhrase failed with 'The parent virtual disk has been modified since the child was created. The content ID of the parent virtual disk does not match the corresponding parent content ID in the child' (error code:18)

2014-11-02T20:34:33.652-08:00 [09880 info 'Default'] Error 18 opening disk vpxa-nfcssl://[DataStore] [MachineName]-000002.vmdk@[HostName]:902!52 fb 2e 73 fc 7f cb 0a-aa d4 66 33 f4 4f 99 aa.

2014-11-02T20:34:33.652-08:00 [09880 warning 'Default'] ERROR 18 opening disk vpxa-nfcssl://[DataStore] [MachineName]-000002.vmdk@[HostName]:902!52 fb 2e 73 fc 7f cb 0a-aa d4 66 33 f4 4f 99 aa.

2014-11-02T20:34:33.652-08:00 [09880 error 'task-1'] [BaseDiskSetComputer::DoOpen] OpenDisks failed, mntapi error: 290

2014-11-02T20:34:33.652-08:00 [09880 error 'task-1'] [BaseDiskSetComputer::AnalyzeErrorAndThrow] Error occurred when opening disk set, MNTAPI_ERROR = 290 MNTAPI errorType = 2, errorCode = 18

2014-11-02T20:34:33.652-08:00 [09880 error 'task-1'] TaskImpl has failed with std::Exception: Platform-specific error 18

2014-11-02T20:34:33.652-08:00 [09880 info 'task-1'] TargetVmManagerImpl::DeleteVM

Please let me know if you've seen this before? Multiple searches turned up nothing

Hello friends, how are you?

I'm trying to convert a physical machine with Redhat 3 have the latest version of VMware vCenter Converter (5.5.3)

On the machine with Redhat I have the firewall disabled, the IP as the name resolves well and are within the same network as the host.

At one point, after partition and format the disk on the target server, I get the following error in the log:

FAILED: On a general system error occurred:

Network error. Host 192.168.0.142 key can not be retrieved. (return code 2)

Can someone help me?

Thanks a lot!

What's the best way to remove the team after the conversion?  You can't open the Broadcom utility because no adapters exist.  If you try to remove the BASP Virtual Adapter from the device manager it says "failed to uninstall the device.  The device may be required to boot up the computer"

Well. My first question here, has anybody done a migration from XenServer 5.6 to ESXi?

I can run the converter fine, and I'll get a VM on the other side I know this won't boot as the VM is using the xen-kernel. The target machine I've been testing with I've installed the default kernel and then run the converter process. I'm trying to boot other side with the distro's .iso ( in this case centos 5.3 ) and repairing the grub configuration, however this is where I'm stuck.

I'll get a number of errors, however I think this is due to the way the disks operate. In Xen, these are IDE devices and the migration process configures these using a SAS Logic controller and some "magic stuff" happens converting my /dev/xvda to a /sda device.

My last attempts have got this at a kernel panic - "stuck.setuproot moving /dev failed" and then init dies.

As most people have figured out. There's tons of doco moving off ESXi to Xen, but not the other way around!

Hello,

I have a physical Debian 7.0 Linux system which I am trying to P2V using Converter 5.5.3.  When I select my target ESXi server, I get told:

The destination does not support EFI firmware.

How do I confirm/deny this, and/or enable EFI support on my ESXi node?

Have a vcenter 192.168.62.10 (no admin permission to login)

Will convert a Physical Linux centos 192.168.62.20 to VMWare

We have 2 ESXi server 192.168.62.100 and 62.200

In case to convert it, we created a win2003 (192.168.62.30) VM, and installed Converter standalone 5.5 on it

Error: after we went through each step, able to connect to linux via root, setup vcenter ip as host, and pickup 62.100 as VM lost to locate the new VM;

setup helper network, assign a new IP 192.168.62.31 to it, it running into process, waiting for long time and failed

Question:

1. Is this converter only running on vcenter? I have to login vcenter to install the converter and running there?

2. if my way reasonable, how to make it work?

Thanks

Michael

I have the same problem with this link A general system error occurred: Server closed connection after 0 response bytes read

and can't get the convert-worker.log.

Is there any solution?

Thanks.

VMWare Converter Version : 4.0.1 build-161434

I'm in the process of moving a few virtual machines from Virtual Box to VMWare ESXi.  I was able to successfully convert 3 VMs out of 4 using the VMWare Converter Standalone.  VM is running Ubuntu 14.10.

The last VM, however, is giving me all kinds of issues.  Conversion starts fine and then fails anywhere between 25% and 70% with the following error:

FAILED: An error occurred during the conversion: '/usr/lib/vmware-converter/copyFileSystem.sh: line 125: 1917 Done echo <password> 1918 Done(141) | /usr/lib/vmware-converter/bin/ssh -z -F /usr/lib/vmware-converter/ssh.conf <user@ip.address> -p 22 "sudo tar --one-file-system --sparse -C '/' -cf - ." 1919 Killed | /bin/tar_1.28 --numeric-owner --delay-directory-restore -C '/mnt/p2v-src-root/' -y -xf - /usr/lib/vmware-converter/bin/ssh -z -F /usr/lib/vmware-converter/ssh.conf <user@ip.address> -p 22 "sudo tar --one-file-system --sparse -C '/' -cf - ." | /bin/tar_1.28 --numeric-owner --delay-directory-restore -C '/mnt/p2v-src-root/' -y -xf - (return code 137)' 

From Log Hightlights:

8/3/2016 5:35:51 PM Error: unable to clone the volume mounted on '/' from '<ip address>'

We have a set of images sent to us by a customer. Not sure of the software used to create the images.

The images were taken from various physical servers with various operating systems (Linux, Solaris, Windows).

We used StarWinds free converter to convert the images to vmdk files.

Using VMware Workstation, we are able to create a VM and add the converted vmdk as the system disk.

We then used VMware converter  to covert the VMs and move them over to ESXi Server 6.0.

We are able to boot a majority of the Linux VMs (RHEL 6).

However,  Solaris boots up and goes into a boot loop...

Is there a mod required to stop the looping?

Thanks

:

I need to perform the P2V conversion of a legacy Windows 98 client.

The client hosts legacy applications that must run on a Windows 98 box.

I attempted converting it using Converter 3.x but it looks to be unable to install the agent.

Should I install Converter on the Windows 98 box itself?

Should I use any other procedure, maybe based on a third party backup solution?

Suggestions, pointers and hints welcome...

marius

I am trying to convert a windows home server version 1 to use after migrating to windows server 2011.

I initially succeeded creating a VM, but I created it for Workstation 8x instead of Server2.

On my next 3 attempts each time the conversion fails at 95 or 97% with the error:

FAILED: An error occurred during the conversion: 'File-level volume clone error failed with sourcevolume id \WindowsBitmapDriverVolumieId=[DC-7xxxx] and target volume id <-07?).  Error code: 112'

Pardon my ignorance, but what information will help troubleshoot this error from the logs.  I exported a log but it produces a bunch of converter-gui-#.log.gz and vmware-converter-server-#.log.gz files.

thanks for the help.

Hi,

May sound like a really simple question, but I can't afford to get it wrong.

We have Windows 2003 R2 servers, which are file servers, with 100 users connected, who rely on these servers to be up during work hours. They are critical machines, and we can't really afford ANY downtime, a few seconds is fine as long as nobody notices, and that any open files that people are working on do not get lost.

Because the server has upto 1TB of data on it, we can't really estimate how long it will take to do the P2V. So we'd ideally like to start this in a morning, then perhaps do the switchover at the end of our working day, so as to not upset any of our users.

Can we do this? Can we do a P2V, and then re-run the process to find any changes that may of happened between it finishing the 1st run?

Basically, we can't really sit and watch it run all the way through, then make the switch when it's finished, because we have no way of knowing if it will finish outside working hours or not, and obviously we can't wait all night either!

We have at least 4 servers to do like this, any ideas really appreciated.

Many thanks, Alan

Hi all,

We are getting the following error when converting physical system of RHEL 6.2 to virtual system using Vmware vCenter standalone converter 5.1 :

Status : FAILED: An error occurred during the conversion: 'Failed to restore original lvm in initrd image: /usr/lib/vmware-converter/restoreLvmInInitrd.sh failed with return code: 1, and message: * /mnt/p2v-src-root/dev has 3 files * user script returning code 0 * unmounting /mnt/p2v-src-root/dev /mnt/p2v-src-root/proc and /mnt/p2v-src-root/sys * Files to copy: /lib64/libudev.so.0 /lib64/libdl.so.2 /lib64/libdevmapper-event.so.1.02 /lib64/libdevmapper.so.1.02 /lib64/libreadline.so.6 /lib64/libc.so.6 /lib64/libselinux.so.1 /lib64/libsepol.so.1 /lib64/libtinfo.so.5 * Unpacking initrd image /mnt/p2v-src-root//boot/initramfs-2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64.img cpio: write error: No space left on device ERROR:

Unable to unpack initrd image /mnt/p2v-src-root//boot/initramfs-2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64.img '

Also in the log highlight is showing "Error: Unable to reconfigure the destination virtual machine."

The source file systems are:

$ uname -a

Linux idestest 2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Nov 9 08:03:13 EST 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$

$ df

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on

/dev/sda7             10321208    522560   9274360   6% /

tmpfs                 16434556       300  16434256   1% /dev/shm

/dev/sda1               198337     59726    128371  32% /boot

/dev/sda3             15481840    598664  14096744   5% /opt

/dev/sda8             10321208    252696   9544224   3% /tmp

/dev/sda5             15481840   7667632   7027776  53% /usr

/dev/sda6             15481840    496016  14199392   4% /var

/dev/mapper/VG00-usr_sap

                     129015460  23310488  99151372  20% /usr/sap

/dev/mapper/VG00-oracle

                     433491744 346499652  64971996  85% /oracle

/dev/mapper/VG00-sapmnt

                      42317056   8990728  31176748  23% /sapmnt

$

Is there any solution for this type of error.  Please guide.

Regards

Ajoy Sonowal.

For 1 physical server that we are working to convert to a VM using the standalone converter, we receive unable to obtain hardware information for the selected machine.  If we try another physical system, there are no issues and we are able to proceed.  We have restarted the physical server that we are unable to obtain information from, but that has not helped.

Please see the attached logs.

Hi,

I am planning to move our DC running on 2008R2 on Physical to Virtual.

Gone through various articles and found out that it is not recommended.

To test it in created a dummy setup and tried to do P2V using 5.5 standalone.

Followed the article and started the DC in DSRM.

It started to convert using P2V and returned the error of VSS.

Found out from application logs that vss doesn't run in DSRM.

Please recommend steps to move DC to Virtual infrastructure.

Regards,

Sushil

I'm starting the process of migrating a collection of VMs in a KVM environment to an existing vSphere cluster and am trying to use Converter (5.5) to do a live conversion/migration of an Ubuntu box, but it's failing due to create the virtual disk on one of hosts due to the SSL certificate, and I haven't found any other posts or articles specifically about this (seems like most SSL related items are about improving speed)

From the worker log, I can see that:

• Converter is able to successfully create the target VM
• The attempt to create the virtual disk fails due to the SSL certificate not being valid (All systems in the cluster appear to be using VMware default certs).  From the worker log file:

2014-08-07T09:35:13.947-07:00 [06620 warning 'Default'] [,0] SSL_IsVerifyEnabled: failed to read registry value. Falling back to default behavior: verification on. LastError = 0

2014-08-07T09:35:13.947-07:00 [06620 warning 'Default'] [,0] SSL: Unknown SSL Error

2014-08-07T09:35:13.947-07:00 [06620 warning 'Default'] [,0] SSL: connect failed

2014-08-07T09:35:13.947-07:00 [06620 warning 'Default'] [,0] [NFC ERROR] NfcNewAuthdConnectionEx: Failed to connect to peer. Error: The remote host certificate has these problems:

-->

--> * The host certificate chain is incomplete.

-->

--> * unable to get local issuer certificate

2014-08-07T09:35:13.947-07:00 [06620 info 'Default'] Sysimgbase_DiskLib_OpenWithPassPhrase failed with 'NBD_ERR_NETWORK_CONNECT' (error code:2338)

• The target VM is deleted.

Is it possible to simply disable the certificate validation for this process?  From the log, it sounds like there's a registry key that would control it, but I haven't found any information on it (or guessed it correctly).  Or can I import that cert to the local Windows system running Converter to get around it (I haven't been successful with that approach yet either)

It's actually not clear to me which system is doing the validation.  While the worker log states it connecting to the vSphere host, there is no such line indicating it's connecting to the host where the target VM is located, and it looks like that's the host with the certificate that is deemed invalid.   Is the validation not happening on my local system that is running Converter? (the vCenter server settings shows that the "vCenter requires verified host SSL certificates" checkbox is unchecked already)

Thanks,

Scott

I'm stuck with the issue i am trying to convert Centos Physical machine to VM please see this errors.

FAILED: An error occurred during the conversion: '/usr/lib/vmware-converter/copyFileSystem.sh: line 114:

2241 Done echo "$PASSWORD" 2242 | $SSHCLIENT_CMD $USERNAME@$SRCHOST -p $SRCPORT "$TAR_CMD" 2243 Killed | $UNTAR_CMD /usr/lib/vmware-converter/bin/ssh -z -F /usr/lib/vmware-converter/ssh.conf root@192.168.0.17 -p 22 " tar --one--file-system --sparse -C /home -cf - ." | /bin/tar_1.28 --numeric-owner --delay-directory-restore -C /mnt/p2v-src-root/home -y -xf - (return code 137)'

Please help me for this.

Good afternoon, I have been trying to convert 2 servers for about a week now. They are running Redhat 5.5. I have been running into all sort of issues. In the beginning the servers would not query and i got passed that but now i have been stuck with this message since yesterday. I have looked at the Forums and I still have not moved anywhere. All I am trying to do is convert 2 old servers to my new esxi server.  Please help!! The converter gets to about 3 percent and then Fails.

FAILED: A general system error occurred: connect (`129.166.9.205'): Network is unreachable connect (`129.166.9.205'): Network is unreachable connect (`129.166.9.205'):
Network is unreachable Network error. Host 129.166.9.205 key can't be retrieved. (return code 2)

I will attach my log if that will help.