after convert Windows 7 64 bit into VMware, I get a bluescreen. I try to install vmscsi onto the source Computer before convert. It is not possible. Do you have an vmscsi for 64 bit?

Kind Regards

E.Prietl

I am trying to P2V several servers running Server 2008 R2. They all fail at about 1 minute with the error:

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

I have tried using VMware-converter-all-5.0.1-875114 and also VMware-converter-en-5.1.0-1023810. I have verified the Microsoft Software Shadow Copy Provider and Volume Shadow Copy services are enabled and running.

The evens logs show the following:

Cannot find anymore diff area candidates for volume \\?\Volume{de61058e-ec3e-11df-8b61-806e6f6e6963}\ [0]
   0x8000ffff, Catastrophic failure 
   Operation: Automatically choosing a diff-area volume Processing EndPrepareSnapshots Context: Volume Name: \\?\Volume{de61058e-ec3e-11df-8b61-806e6f6e6963}\ Execution Context: System Provider
   2D20436F64653A20535052414C4C4F4330303030313137342D2043616C6C3A20535052414C4C4F4330303030303739302D205049443A202030303030343432382D205449443A202030303030313533322D20434D443A2020433A5C57696E646F77735C53797374656D33325C737663686F73742E657865202D6B2073777072762D20557365723A204E616D653A204E5420415554484F524954595C53595354454D2C205349443A532D312D352D313820

{b5946137-7b9f-4925-af80-51abd60b20d5}
   EndPrepareSnapshots({548287c0-1abd-47b7-8d28-4be21b0ed700})
   0x80042302, A Volume Shadow Copy Service component encountered an unexpected error. Check the Application event log for more information. 
   Operation: Executing Asynchronous Operation Context: Current State: DoSnapshotSet
   2D20436F64653A20434F52534E50534330303030313632342D2043616C6C3A20434F52534E50534330303030313630352D205049443A202030303030313434342D205449443A202030303030343236342D20434D443A2020433A5C57696E646F77735C73797374656D33325C76737376632E6578652020202D20557365723A204E616D653A204E5420415554484F524954595C53595354454D2C205349443A532D312D352D313820

Cannot find anymore diff area candidates for volume \\?\Volume{de61058e-ec3e-11df-8b61-806e6f6e6963}\ [0]
   0x8000ffff, Catastrophic failure 
   Operation: Automatically choosing a diff-area volume Processing EndPrepareSnapshots Context: Volume Name: \\?\Volume{de61058e-ec3e-11df-8b61-806e6f6e6963}\ Volume Name: \\?\Volume{de61058f-ec3e-11df-8b61-806e6f6e6963}\ Execution Context: System Provider
   2D20436F64653A20535052414C4C4F4330303030313137342D2043616C6C3A20535052414C4C4F4330303030303739302D205049443A202030303030343432382D205449443A202030303030313533322D20434D443A2020433A5C57696E646F77735C53797374656D33325C737663686F73742E657865202D6B2073777072762D20557365723A204E616D653A204E5420415554484F524954595C53595354454D2C205349443A532D312D352D313820

{b5946137-7b9f-4925-af80-51abd60b20d5}
   EndPrepareSnapshots({529e729a-77c0-4b87-8f30-a35e4ad66b43})
   0x80042302, A Volume Shadow Copy Service component encountered an unexpected error. Check the Application event log for more information. 
   Operation: Executing Asynchronous Operation Context: Current State: DoSnapshotSet
   2D20436F64653A20434F52534E50534330303030313632342D2043616C6C3A20434F52534E50534330303030313630352D205049443A202030303030313434342D205449443A202030303030323332342D20434D443A2020433A5C57696E646F77735C73797374656D33325C76737376632E6578652020202D20557365723A204E616D653A204E5420415554484F524954595C53595354454D2C205349443A532D312D352D313820

The diagnostic logs are attached from one of the servers.
Any suggestions on how to fix this??

So here I am again.

Running a V2V conversion on a Windows 2K8 box.  I get the "Unable to obtain hardware information for the selected machine." error when I try the conversion.  So I try running the "vmware-vdiskmanager with the -R option and it replies "No errors were found on the virtual disk,...".  I try the conversion again and the same error.  The error comes back almost instantaneously.

Attached is the generated log files.  I looked but I would like another opinion because I can't seem to fix it.

This is using Converter 5.1.

Hello,

I'm trying to convert a physical machine which runs RedHat EL 5.1 with Converter Standalone 5.1 installed on Windows 7.

The process start by taking the fingerprint of the source system and this step fails. I see in '/var/log/secure' that SSH connections are succesful (root connection is allowed, both source machine and converter are on the same LAN and IP addresses are authorized anywhere).

During the attempt, I can see that the temporary folder is created under /tmp/.

I tried with Convert 5.0.1 & 4.1, but same failure.

Anyone has an idea of the root cause?

I'm trying to convert a physical Windows Server 2003 SP2 Web Edition with the converter  (v 5.1) and every time it fails with the error " FAILED: An error occurred during the conversion: 'Platform-specific error 2338'

Some of the errors in the log appear to point to a disk problem but I defragmented the disk and then ran a chkdsk and the disk looks good.

I appreciate any help.

Aloha, I have found that I can sometimes do conversion of the same computer or image file several time with different results and they all seem to be with DNS. Now I have no idea of how the conversion can start then fail later due to DNS. I would think that since the start of the conversion VMWare would have the IP address then would use the IP address to continue the conversion. this would eliminate the DNS failures and failed conversions. I am finding that if I replace the computer name with the IP address the conversion completes much sooner than with the use of the computer name. Wouldn't it be a good idea that the software do that on it's own? It would help a lot since I see many, many user issues online with the same problem of the conversion terminating because it cannot find the host. I think it would be a good idea to only use DNS once to get the IP address then continue with the IP address. What am i missing here?

I have eight physical hosts to migrate, five are running CentOS 4.5+ and seem to be manageable.  The other three are running RHEL 3.0 (no Update level).

I tried the RHEL ones first with converter version 5.1.  I got an issue as pasted below from the log:

--> msg = "An error occurred during the conversion: 'GrubInstaller::InstallGrub: /usr/lib/vmware-converter/installGrub.sh failed with return code: 139, and message:

--> /mnt/p2v-src-root/sys does not exist. Not mounting

--> /usr/lib/vmware-converter/installGrub.sh: line 132:  1997 Segmentation fault      chroot "$argRootPath" /$updateGrubName "$argGrubVersion" "$argBootDisk" "$argInstallPart" /$deviceMapName

--> umount: can't umount /mnt/p2v-src-root/sys: No such file or directory

--> Error running vmware-updateGrub.sh through chroot into /mnt/p2v-src-root

--> /usr/lib/vmware-converter/installGrub.sh: line 143: /mnt/p2v-src-root: Is a directory

I started debugging Grub issues, but could only find 1 vs 2 types of problems, for Ubuntu.  This server says it's running GNU GRUB 0.93.

So I starting think of overall compatibility:

VMware Compatibility Guide: Guest/Host Search

The matrix seems to say only the last update level (Update 9) of RHEL 3.x is supported by ESXi 5.x (I have 5.1U1).

So now I have three courses of action:

1. Since I can't find the exact return code 139 for my problem above in Google, should I keep trying to make it work as-is?  What was the big difference in RHEL 3 Update 9 that allows ESXi 5 to support it (but not Update 8 or earlier)?  Was it just formal support, but it will probably still 'work'?  Either way - do I have a shot if I keep debugging this Grub error?

2. Or - should I be looking to upgrade my host to RHEL 3 Update 9?  (I am not sure if this is even possible, or how difficult it will be - thus my next question)

3. Or - should I be looking at doing some sort of a net dd operation, and then manually updating the devices to the ones ESXi provides virtually to try to get these to bootstrap virtually?

CAVEAT: One thing I will mention is this - I am 3,000 miles from the servers, and the staff doesn't seem able to do much beyond powering on/off.  I would think of having DRACs installed, but that would also cost a lot (their hourly rate is high), and I don't want them tearing apart these legacy machines just for that.  In summary, I would like to get these virtualized without powering down at all.  I believe minor RHEL upgrades can be done without powering down, but I have no idea on this old version.  Net dd should be fine.  I just can't be relying on rebooting the physical machines and doing terminal work unless I decide I have to fly to the site to finish this.

EDIT: I would also like to add this - for my Centos machines, the one that I got to work only did so because I downgraded to Converter version 5.0.1, and converted the LVM to basic during conversion (based on other threads here).  Perhaps I should be trying version 4.x of the Converter for these ancient RHEL 3.x machines?

Hi all,

I'm kinda stuck atm.

We are using 2 ESXi servers. I'd like to convert the servers of 1 ESXi to another.

I'm using Converter Standalone 5.1.

The source server is running ESXi 4.0, the destination is running ESXi 5.1.

Now when i'm trying to convert an offline machine, the host that is running

the standalone converter software crashes and reboots. I've tested this on several machines with different OS's, they all crash.

Out of the 4 VM's running on the source server, i succeeded in converting 2 machines to the new server.

The other 2 are giving me these issue's.

Could you give me any pointers of how to trouble shoot this? cause it's not giving me any errors

to work with.

Thanks in advance.

I seem to be having an issue (hot-clone) converting a RedHat ES 3 box to our VM environment using the Standalone Converter.

I consistently get to 99% conversion at which point I get: Error: Failed to reconfigure the target virtual machine.

Reading into the logs I have noticed there appears to be an issue with GRUB?

From the logs:

2009-07-20 10:31:48.404 'task-1' 2956422032 info GrubInstaller::InstallGrub: /dev/sda maps to (hd0) in the target VM

2009-07-20 10:31:48.405 'task-1' 2956422032 verbose LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/

vmware-converter

2009-07-20 10:31:48.405 'task-1' 2956422032 verbose PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin

2009-07-20 10:31:48.405 'task-1' 2956422032 verbose Invoking /usr/lib/vmware-converter/installGrub.sh with the following arguments:

2009-07-20 10:31:48.405 'task-1' 2956422032 verbose args[0]: /mnt/p2v-src-root

2009-07-20 10:31:48.405 'task-1' 2956422032 verbose args[1]: /usr/lib/vmware-converter/updateGrub.sh

2009-07-20 10:31:48.405 'task-1' 2956422032 verbose args[2]: /tmp/device.map

2009-07-20 10:31:48.405 'task-1' 2956422032 verbose args[3]: (hd0)

2009-07-20 10:31:48.405 'task-1' 2956422032 verbose args[4]: (hd0,0)

2009-07-20 10:31:50.416 'task-1' 2956422032 verbose Command return code: 0; result string:

GRUB  version 0.93  (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)

[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported.  For the first word, TAB

lists possible command completions.  Anywhere else TAB lists the possible

completions of a device/filename.]

grub> root (hd0,0)

Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83

grub> setup (hd0)

Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no

Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... no

Error 15: File not found

grub>

2009-07-20 10:31:50.417 'task-1' 2956422032 error GrubInstaller::InstallGrub: /usr/lib/vmware-converter/installGrub.sh failed with return code: 0, and message:

GRUB  version 0.93  (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)

[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported.  For the first word, TAB

lists possible command completions.  Anywhere else TAB lists the possible

completions of a device/filename.]

grub> root (hd0,0)

Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83

grub> setup (hd0)

Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no

Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... no

Error 15: File not found

Reconfig failed with error GrubInstaller::InstallGrub: /usr/lib/vmware-converter/installGrub.sh failed with return code: 0, and message:

Has anyone encountered this issue?

I am trying to convert my laptop to a virtual machine so i can run it on another computer. At about  98% it fails.

Error: An error occurred during reconfiguration.

Status: FAILED: Unable to create '\\.\vstor2-mntapi10-shared-7AA2989B00005006000000000A000000\$Reconfig$'.

I have no idea where have I write my previous post, so I'm creating one more.

I have unknown internal error during conversion - when it tries to start.

Windows 2003 SBS x32 conversion to vCenter Server 5.0.0

In attached file full log of process.

Please help.

Regards,

Bartosz

Hi,

I'm running Converter Standalone version 5.1.0 and am attempting to P2V a physical Centos 5.3 server to my vSphere 5.1 environment. When the conversion job kicks-off, the helper VM is created, it powers on and boots up ok, the job log says "Connected to the Converter helper server on the destination virtual machine" and then the helper VM powers off and deletes and the job fails with the message "Failed at 1%. A general system error has occurred: Network error. Host <hostname of source machine> key can't be retrieved (return code 2)".

I am able to SSH to the server and login as root without a problem. When Converter initially connects to the machine when I'm setting up the job, it retrieves all it's details OK and shows me all its configuration information OK etc. I'm thinking that the "key can't be retrieved" in the failure message is the clue, but I don't know what "key can't be retrieved" means.

HELP!

Regards,

George.

I hope this is acceptable - I posted this under ESXi 5 since it gets more traffic and it's a general question, but I haven't gotten feedback there yet.

Overall my conversions seem viable leaving VS Tools in place.  I think in reality, anything VS Tools added is replaced by the basic Converter operation anyway!

This is my original thread on it:

Any reason why Virtual Iron tools needs to be disabled?

Hope someone has some feedback...

I have a couple of Server 08 R2 machines where the P to V conversion fails.  I did some digging and the problem appears to be related to the 100mb System Reserved Partition that has 0% free space available.  Conversion fails with the below error.

The VSS snapshots cannot be stored because there is not enough space on the source volumes or because the source machine does not have any NTFS volumes. Error code:
2147754783 (0x8004231F).

Has anyone had this issue and came up with a solution or work around?

Thanks in advance

I have a Dell server running 2003 Server- Standard SP2 and Exchange 2003

Trying to do a P>V conversion using a laptop w/ vmConverter going to ESXi Host v ESXi 5.1.

Laptop and destination host both have plenty of horsepower.  I have successfully converted a few other
servers- both widows and Linux. This one is being a problem child.

This is testing before final leap into full virtualization.
I am getting fails on conversion attempts.

Ideas anybody?  TIA

Error code:

FAILED:An error occurred during the conversion: ’BlockLevelVolumeCloneMg::CloneVolume:Detected a write error during the cloning of the volume
\WindowsBitmapDriverVolumeId=[42.35-8A-61-00-E2-13-A8-61-00-00-00]. Error:78369 (type: 1, code:4898)’

Dear team,

Installed VMware-converter-all-5.0.1-875114 on one server , but when i try to connect another converter server from this server i m getting attached  error, hence ndeed your asisstance to resolve the same.

regards

Mr VMware

Hello,

I downloaded vm from local data storage, but always get the error:

Expected put message. Got: ERROR

I have a local data store o esx server (i have a esxi 5.2 + essential kit). No shares, no other connection to local datastore. I try to download it from the web browser data storage, but I have the same error.

It is possible download vm from the local datastore?

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.

Hi everyone, I'm looking for a bit of advice

Currently using VMware Workstation 9 and things are going great, I've P2V'd a couple of local machines on the network using the VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Client (5.1) and had no issues at all.

What I am currently looking to do now however is proving somewhat challenging.

I have a web/database server which is in a datacenter that I wish to P2V. The server is running Windows 2008 Server R2 edition and I can connect to the server using Remote Desktop. I have access to the firewall on the server (it only has the default / built in Windows firewall) and I have access to the firewall in the office here.

The server is limited on disk space, it has two physical drives as:

C: 30GB (2.7GB free space)

D: 16GB (5.1GB free space)

The lack of local disk space is naturally preventing me from running the P2V and storing the img locally, then downloading via FTP or similar.

Therefore, I'm wondering what my options are...

Would it be feasible to try and run the P2V from the office (bandwidth is 30Mb downstream, 3Mb upstream)?  If so, what prerequisites would be required in terms of firewall ports or maybe even VPN connections?

Any other suggestions on how best to P2V this machine would be welcomed

Now I install Converter Standalone Client 5 on windows 7 Sp1 64bit

But when opening see message :

config file error: not well-formed (invalid token) (Line 4)

and this a log event for error:

Faulting application name: converter.exe, version: 8.1.0.15346, time stamp: 0x51642626 Faulting module name: MSVCR90.dll, version: 9.0.30729.6161, time stamp: 0x4dace5b9 Exception code: 0x40000015 Fault offset: 0x0005beae Faulting process id: 0x598 Faulting application start time: 0x01ce78c1be883441 Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware vCenter Converter Standalone\converter.exe Faulting module path: C:\Windows\WinSxS\x86_microsoft.vc90.crt_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_9.0.30729.6161_none_50934f2ebcb7eb57\MSVCR90.dll Report Id: 16eb6cdd-e4b5-11e2-ab85-005056c00008