Configure the VMware helper ip address.

This will resolve this type of issue. Convertor 6.1.1

Hi,

is it possible to convert a not official supported Linux distribution, or just the few mentioned in the manual (CentOS, RedHat, SLES, Ubuntu)?

In my case I really  need to convert a Open Suse Leap 42.1.

I wonder if there is any possibility to, because I read Leap is based on SLES.

Thanks,

Janine

Hello I'm having difficulty converting one of my VMs from a Hyper-V server.  I'm able to connect to the Hyper-V and see the Vm list.  When I select SVR4 and click next I get a notice saying "Verifying Task Parameters"  This goes on and on and on.  Last time I let it sit for almost an hour before I killed it.  Also, if I click "View Source Details"I get "Retrieving source machine information..." and also spins and spin but does nothing.  I'm not seeing anything crazy in the logs, but I may not be looking in the right place.

I have already converted a VM off of this Hyper-V host today but for some reason just this one is giving me troubles.  Any ideas??

-Jeff

Hyper-V 2008R2 on a headless host

SVR4 is a 2008R2 server AD, DNS, DHCP, File.  It has 5 drives connected to it with about 1.5 TB of used space.

  I tested exactly that same physical server and:

a) without synchronization converting time is around 27 minutes

b) with synchronization ( Run immediately after cloning) i take 60 minute and 6 minute for next job with synchronizastion.

If this is normal ?

Sebastian

I just installed a new Vmware ESXI 6.5 and using OVFTool to deploy an OVF created using ESXI 5.5 (VM Hardware version 8)

I used the following command

ovftool --acceptAllEulas --X:logFile=c:\temp\errorvm.log --X:logLevel=verbose -ds="datastore1" -n="VTESTHOST2" --diskMode=thick F:\VMWareBackup\Vserver1.ovf vi://root:password@10.1.2.222

I get an error Transfer Failed

Here is part of the log. Take note that this command will work on an ESXI 5.5 server. Thanks for any ideas

2017-08-24T15:25:46.648-07:00 verbose OVFTool[07960] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Parsing version 6.5...

2017-08-24T15:25:46.648-07:00 verbose OVFTool[07960] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Parsed product version1: 6.5 -> 6.5.0

2017-08-24T15:25:46.648-07:00 verbose OVFTool[07960] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Parsing version 5.0...

2017-08-24T15:25:46.648-07:00 verbose OVFTool[07960] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Parsed product version2: 5.0 -> 5.0.0

2017-08-24T15:25:49.357-07:00 verbose OVFTool[07960] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Parsing version 6.5...

2017-08-24T15:25:49.357-07:00 verbose OVFTool[07960] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Parsed product version1: 6.5 -> 6.5.0

2017-08-24T15:25:49.357-07:00 verbose OVFTool[07960] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Parsing version 4.1...

2017-08-24T15:25:49.357-07:00 verbose OVFTool[07960] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Parsed product version2: 4.1 -> 4.1.0

2017-08-24T15:25:52.500-07:00 verbose OVFTool[07960] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Mapped deviceId '/VTESTHOST2/VirtualLsiLogicSASController0:0' to URL 'https://10.1.2.222:443/ha-nfc/52ac4542-4e95-125b-3f55-f0ce23814366/disk-0.vmdk'

2017-08-24T15:25:52.500-07:00 verbose OVFTool[07960] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Mapped deviceId '/VTESTHOST2/nvram' to URL 'https://10.1.2.222:443/ha-nfc/52ac4542-4e95-125b-3f55-f0ce23814366/VTESTHOST2.nvram'

2017-08-24T15:25:52.500-07:00 verbose OVFTool[07960] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Parsing URL...

2017-08-24T15:25:52.500-07:00 verbose OVFTool[07960] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Constructing URL...

2017-08-24T15:25:52.501-07:00 verbose OVFTool[07960] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Initializing OVF rewriter...

2017-08-24T15:25:52.502-07:00 verbose OVFTool[07960] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Initializing OVF rewriter...

2017-08-24T15:25:52.502-07:00 verbose OVFTool[07960] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Using file size as progress measure

2017-08-24T15:25:52.502-07:00 verbose OVFTool[11940] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] OvfPackageSourceBase getting file source

2017-08-24T15:25:52.502-07:00 verbose OVFTool[11940] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Constructing URL...

2017-08-24T15:25:52.502-07:00 verbose OVFTool[11940] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Upload disk do no convert

2017-08-24T15:25:52.502-07:00 verbose OVFTool[11940] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] HttpWriterFactory web request : https://10.1.2.222:443/ha-nfc/52ac4542-4e95-125b-3f55-f0ce23814366/disk-0.vmdk

2017-08-24T15:25:52.502-07:00 verbose OVFTool[11940] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Constructing URL...

2017-08-24T15:25:52.502-07:00 verbose OVFTool[11940] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Initializing new curl session

2017-08-24T15:25:52.511-07:00 verbose OVFTool[11940] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Parsing URL...

2017-08-24T15:25:52.511-07:00 verbose OVFTool[11940] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Constructing URL...

2017-08-24T15:25:52.511-07:00 verbose OVFTool[11940] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] https://10.1.2.222:443/ha-nfc/52ac4542-4e95-125b-3f55-f0ce23814366/disk-0.vmdk is redirected to https://10.1.2.222/ha-nfc/52ac4542-4e95-125b-3f55-f0ce23814366/disk-0.vmdk

2017-08-24T15:25:52.511-07:00 verbose OVFTool[11940] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Changing HttpWriterFactory path to https://10.1.2.222/ha-nfc/52ac4542-4e95-125b-3f55-f0ce23814366

2017-08-24T15:26:31.753-07:00 verbose OVFTool[08312] [Originator@6876 sub=HttpConnectionPool-000001] [RemoveConnection] Connection removed; cnx: <SSL(<io_obj p:0x00000000037acee8, h:-1, <TCP '0.0.0.0:0'>, <TCP '10.1.1.195:443'>>)>; pooled: 0

2017-08-24T15:28:46.199-07:00 verbose OVFTool[08336] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Curl_perform error code 55 (Failed sending data to the peer)

2017-08-24T15:28:46.199-07:00 verbose OVFTool[11940] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] CURL error buffer: SSL_write() returned SYSCALL, errno = 10053

2017-08-24T15:28:46.199-07:00 verbose OVFTool[11940] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Connection error during upload

2017-08-24T15:28:46.199-07:00 verbose OVFTool[07960] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Connection error, sleep then retry (10 remaining)

2017-08-24T15:28:51.206-07:00 verbose OVFTool[07960] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Backtrace:

--> [backtrace begin] product: VMware Workstation, version: e.x.p, build: build-5965791, tag: OVFTool, cpu: x86_64, os: windows, buildType: release

--> backtrace[00] vmacore.dll[0x001C9A1A]

--> backtrace[01] vmacore.dll[0x0005ABFF]

--> backtrace[02] vmacore.dll[0x0005BD9E]

--> backtrace[03] vmacore.dll[0x0001A19B]

--> backtrace[04] ovftool.exe[0x0008E1C5]

--> backtrace[05] ovftool.exe[0x0008E742]

--> backtrace[06] ovftool.exe[0x003DB237]

--> backtrace[07] MSVCR90.dll[0x00074830]

--> backtrace[08] MSVCR90.dll[0x00043B3C]

--> backtrace[09] ntdll.dll[0x00092A63]

--> backtrace[10] ovftool.exe[0x0009CC7E]

--> backtrace[11] ovftool.exe[0x00050984]

--> backtrace[12] ovftool.exe[0x00050FAC]

--> backtrace[13] ovftool.exe[0x0005120A]

--> backtrace[14] ovftool.exe[0x00054C13]

--> backtrace[15] ovftool.exe[0x0004A853]

--> backtrace[16] vmacore.dll[0x0015B975]

--> backtrace[17] vmacore.dll[0x0015BCDA]

--> backtrace[18] vmacore.dll[0x001E46E6]

--> backtrace[19] MSVCR90.dll[0x00002FDF]

--> backtrace[20] MSVCR90.dll[0x00003080]

--> backtrace[21] KERNEL32.DLL[0x000013D2]

--> backtrace[22] ntdll.dll[0x000154E4]

--> [backtrace end]

2017-08-24T15:28:51.206-07:00 verbose OVFTool[07960] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [Vi4Target::Abort] started.

2017-08-24T15:28:53.210-07:00 verbose OVFTool[07960] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [Vi4Target::Abort] HttpNfcLease->Abort() is called.

2017-08-24T15:28:53.222-07:00 verbose OVFTool[07960] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [Vi4Target::WaitForEntityDestroyDone] Found the entity 'VTESTHOST2', wait for 5 seconds...

2017-08-24T15:28:58.233-07:00 verbose OVFTool[07960] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [Vi4Target::WaitForEntityDestroyDone] The entity 'VTESTHOST2' is gone or even not created yet.

2017-08-24T15:28:58.234-07:00 verbose OVFTool[07960] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Destruction of ViTarget

Good morning,  I installed a new vmware Esxi 6.5 (Build 4887370) with no vcenter.  First time use, I tried to deploy an OVF using the vsphere web client (IE Browser).  After a few minute wait, I encountered an error

Failed to deploy VM: postNFCData failed ,

The two task failed.

Install Vapp

I know that my OVF works as it works on Esxi 5.5 using thick client.  Is there something that I failed to install?

Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks

All,

In a test environment, I am using vCenter Converter Standalone v6.0 to generate a procedure to convert Windows 2003 Servers to VMs.  My goal is to minimize my customer’s downtime.

The User Guide list an option of “Stop Services Running on the Source Machine” before Converter Standalone synchronizes the data between the source and destination machine. While the services on the Source are synchronized with the Destination, this is an outage or downtime.  Is there a way I can find exact time synchronization started and ended? I am trying to estimate or measure this downtime. This will allow me to tell the customer “When we converted Windows 2003 Server XYZ in the lab, it was offline ABC minutes.”

T.J.

Having an odd problem, I have use the converter software before with no issues until now. Recently purchased a new PC with Windows 10 Home edition, ( Version 1703, Build 15063.540). Installed VMware-converter-en-6.1.1-3533064 with no issues, however when I try to launch it, I get the following error:

Config File Error:  Not Well-Formed (invalid token) (line 4)

I've tried installing and launching the software as well in Compatibility Mode for Windows 8, also same issue.

Does anyone have an insight on this?

I cannot find a way specifying the local machine to save the VM for my remote Linux machine. Is there a way? I don't have a ESXi server.

Thanks.

I had a newly imported XP vmdk (imported with dd)
When booting it inside a VM it bluescreened with a 7B - so everything was fine.
Then I used Converter 6.1 with the "configure machine" option.
Result was that the perfectly booting vmdk now hangs with a white cursor in the upper left of the screen.
Checking with a LiveCD showed that the boot partition still had the bootable flag.
So the conclusion is that the current Converter corrupts the boot.ini or the ntldr.
As a workaround I now boot from a custom made boot floppy - but that really should not be necessary.

Hi,

I'm having an issue converting a Windows 7 machine to a virtual machine running on VMWare ESXi 6.0. I'm using vCenter Converter 6.1.1.

The conversion stops at 98% with an "Internal error." I can see the VM has been created on the ESXi server, but when attempting to start the VM, it goes into a boot loop failing at the "Starting Windows" logo, so I'm thinking it has something to do the configuration after the conversion. This is what I see in the vmware-converter-server log around the time of the failure:

2017-08-23T13:04:55.318-05:00 info vmware-converter-server[04188] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Started task "task-4" for job="job-4", item ="3" -- void __thiscall Converter::Server::Job::JobProcessorImpl::StartProcessingJobs(void) ("d:/build/ob/bora-3533064/bora/sysimage/lib/converter/server/job/jobProcessorImpl.cpp:384")

2017-08-23T13:04:55.370-05:00 info vmware-converter-server[01944] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [task,338] [task-4] -- BEGIN -- Convert

2017-08-23T13:04:55.387-05:00 info vmware-converter-server[03984] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] ConverterConnection: KeepAlive timer canceled, StopKeepAlive succeeded

2017-08-23T13:04:55.391-05:00 info vmware-converter-server[01944] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [taskSpec,618] [task-4] [TaskMap] task-4:task-7

2017-08-23T13:24:50.751-05:00 error vmware-converter-server[03848] [Originator@6876 sub=Ufa.HTTPService] Failed to read request; stream: <io_obj p:0x040e75c4, h:-1, <pipe '\\.\pipe\vmware-converter-server-soap'>, <pipe '\\.\pipe\vmware-converter-server-soap'>>, error: class Vmacore::TimeoutException(Operation timed out)

2017-08-23T13:24:55.751-05:00 error vmware-converter-server[04000] [Originator@6876 sub=Ufa.HTTPService] Failed to read request; stream: <io_obj p:0x03f67894, h:-1, <pipe '\\.\pipe\vmware-converter-server-soap'>, <pipe '\\.\pipe\vmware-converter-server-soap'>>, error: class Vmacore::TimeoutException(Operation timed out)

2017-08-23T14:46:34.235-05:00 error vmware-converter-server[01944] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [task,350] [LRO] Unexpected Exception: vmodl.fault.SystemError

2017-08-23T14:46:34.284-05:00 info vmware-converter-server[01944] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [task,379] [task-4] -- ERROR -- Convert: vmodl.fault.SystemError

--> (vmodl.fault.SystemError) {

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

-->    reason = "InternalError",

-->    msg = ""

--> }

2017-08-23T14:46:34.284-05:00 info vmware-converter-server[01944] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [diagnosticManager,260] Retrieved taskInfo for "converter.task.Task:task-4" mapping it to "converter.task.Task:task-4".

2017-08-23T14:46:34.284-05:00 info vmware-converter-server[01944] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [diagnosticManager,300] The task with id = "task-4" was found to be a "recent" task.

2017-08-23T14:46:34.284-05:00 info vmware-converter-server[01944] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [diagnosticManager,314] No existing log bundle found for task with id = "task-4". The task is still "recent" so a log bundle will now be generated for it.

2017-08-23T14:46:34.295-05:00 info vmware-converter-server[01944] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [diagnosticManager,1092] Retrieving task related diagnostics for server task with id = "task-4".

2017-08-23T14:46:34.431-05:00 info vmware-converter-server[04184] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Run 0 of job "job-4" finished with an error. -- struct Converter::Server::Job::JobExecutor::SchedulerUpdateSpec __thiscall Converter::Server::Conversion::ConversionJobExecutorImpl::UpdateJob(class Converter::Server::Job::InternalJob &,bool,const class Converter::Server::Scheduler::SchedulerItemStatistics &,const class Converter::Task::TaskInfo &) ("d:/build/ob/bora-3533064/bora/sysimage/lib/converter/server/conversion/conversionJobExecutorImpl.cpp:405")

2017-08-23T14:46:34.523-05:00 info vmware-converter-server[04184] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Suspended 1 scheduler items for job (job-4) -- void __thiscall Converter::Server::Job::JobProcessorImpl::SuspendJobAux(const class Converter::Server::Job::InternalJob &,class Converter::VdbConnection &) ("d:/build/ob/bora-3533064/bora/sysimage/lib/converter/server/job/jobProcessorImpl.cpp:829")

I've attached that log as well as the ConverterDiag log. I'm thinking the "faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null, reason - "Internal error" " is somehow related the "Failed to read request" and "Vmacore::TimeoutException" error message, but I'm not 100% sure. I've been trying to research this issue, but cannot find anything in Google to resolve this issue.

I have tried using SCSI LSI Logic as well as SATA (which is what is in the machine) to no avail.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated! Thank you very much!

While generating a procedure for my department to convert physical Windows 2003 servers to VMs, I ran into an issue.  vConverter v6.0 converts the machine; however, I am prompted to enter a Product Key. The other conversions I did not prompt me for this.  Any idea why this happened?  Also, do you know how I can prevent this from happening?

Please note: I double checked the sysprep file on the vConverter server.  It is expanded and in the same location it was for the other conversions. 

T.J.

Hi All

I've imported a WinXP VM from a standalone ESXi3.5 host, into an ESXI4 host which is managed by vCenter.  I did this by right-clicking a host in vSphere client, and selecting 'import machine...'.

The import goes ahead with no errors.

On power-on of the imported VM, I get repeated 'Found New Hardware Wizard' notifications for a device "PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge". 

This occurs both before and after the VMTools have been upgraded. 

No hardware changes/customisation of the VM has been done. 

Is this a bug in the version of the hardware version/converter ? I've read about similar issues with Fusion but the suggested fixes there don't seem to work here.

Any advice appreciated. 

Ian

I'm having a difficult time converter my Win10-x64bit with this Converter 6.1.1. First of all I have tried all options I think with leaving out certain partitions. Now hope someone can guide me to which partitions I have to choose. Have attached Disk Management view.

I want to copy C (ssd) + F drive (HDD)...which other partitions do I need to add to make the conversion successful??

(FYI: G is just the vmdk destination for the Converter)

The 2nd attachment is one of the logs from error messages I have gotten.

What do I do wrong?
I have done several of these before and not had any problems but this one don't work for some reason. Any help would be much appreciated guys...

I keep getting a failed status at 97% when trying to convert my VM.

Logs attached.

I am in the process of trying to convert a machine to a VM using vCenter Converter and cannot get the conversion to work. It always fails at 1% or 2% with the error in the title of this post. The full error is: FAILED: An error occurred during the conversion: 'BlockLevelVolumeCloneMgr::CloneVolume: Detected a write error during the cloning of volume \WindowsBitmapDriverVolumeId=[98-87-BA-25-00-00-80-0C-00-00-00-00]. Error: 401 (type: 1, code: 25)'

I'm trying to convert the local machine to VMWare Workstation 11/12. The source machine is Windows 7 Pro x64. I've recently done two conversions just like this one from similar source hardware which both converted with no issues, so I have no idea what could be wrong here.

I've done some searching online and have tried many suggestions from similar cases but none have worked. Here's everything I've tried:

• Run vCenter Converter as a different (admin) user
• Disable SSL using the XML file in %programdata%
• Stop all SQL services before converting
• Change destination disk size to a custom value
• Ensure no other disks are being converted - the machine only has a single drive in it. That drive has two partitions - the system partition and the main data partition.
• Run chkdsk to make sure there are no issues with the source drive - none detected

I can't find a solution that seems to work for me, so I'm hoping someone here may be able to help. I'm attaching the exported logs for reference. Any help is appreciated - thanks in advance!

Hi guys !

I have a physical server running Windows Server 2008 ( join domain ).

I has using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone ( Vesion: 6.1.1 ), I want to convert a physical server this to virtual system ( have vCenter anh 2 hosts )

When i was run VMware vCenter Converter Standalone to 98% that display FAILED: Unable to reconfigure the destination virtual machine like this picture.

I was attached file the log of job converter Failed this.

So can you help me fix and know why FAILED this ?

Thanks.

Trying to migrate 4 VMs from 2012 R2 Hyper-V Server to a mixed vSphere 6/6.5 cluster via VMware converter 6.1.1 . I have tried converting and choosing mutliple types of disk controllers and it doesn't seem to matter I get a BSOD on VM startup with an Inaccessible_Boot_Device.

Anyone have any other ideas?

Tried the steps in the following articles

https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2002106

https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1005208

These are all Gen1 Hyper V vms with IDE virtual disks.

I also tried this with no luck.

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1450429-inaccessible-boot-device-error-while-booting-windows-2012-r2

I'm a new user of VCSC. I just installed VCSC in order to import a windows XP virtual PC image into vmware player. A screen capture of the error is attached.

The PC is a stand-alone laptop running windows 7 professional. I use it for for running some legacy applications. There is no domain controller. The account on the laptop did not have a password at the time that I installed VCSC. When I attempted to import the Windows XP Virtual PC image, the error appeared. I thought it may have been because there was no password on the account, so I added one. That made no difference. I did a repair on the VCSC installation to see if that would cause the credentials to be changed. That also made no difference.

The name of the laptop is LATITUDED830 and the account name is Daryl, corresponding to the credentials in the screen capture.

I'm stuck. I have no idea how to get past this error. I'd appreciate some help.

Hi,

We are running ESXi 6 Update 3.

There is a VM running Windows 2012R2 that consists of 2 HDD (2 Separate VMDK files).

We would like to shrink the D Drive (i.e. The second VMDK file) from 500GB to 100GB.

We would like to know what is the best way to shrink it ?  Would it be a V2V of that VM OR can we just V2V for a particular VMDK file ?

Thanks