I need to virtualize an old Windows XP physical machine (fully aware about the "risks" involved); I cannot find the stand-alone Converter that would allow me to do so (5.5.3 - or, I guess, earlier).
The direct link mentioned below is broken:
Re: anyone else having issues downloading converter 5.5 or 6.0?
Any way to get ahold of such ancient binaries?
Thank you.
Hi, can help me ?
I'm get error message "Error: An error occurred during reconfiguration." at 98% of convert physical machine (Windows 7)
Some discussion threats suggest a source machine file system error fixed running "chksdk c: /f", but error raise again, same with "chksdk c: /r"
The log files generated are attached
Thanks in advanced...
Hi,
trying to create a virtual machine of current computer. At 33% or thereabouts I get the following message
"FAILED: An error occurred during the conversion: 'File-level volume clone error failed with sourcevolume id \WindowsBitmapDriverVolumeId=[0E-83-13-00-00-00-10-00-00-00-00-00] and target volume id >03(31000000010000000000. Error code:395'"
I cannot find any information on error 395. Im doing the same thing I have done before, so im not sure where I am going wrong. I wen through log file but I do not understand enough of what is going wrong to work it out. Has anyone had this issue before and did you solve it?
Cheers,
Matt
Hello,
I'm trying to p2v a redhat in a HP BL460c with the new converter 4 standalone.
I give an error "Unable to connect to the Converter helper server on the target virtual machine". And the Status on the "task progress" tab is "FAILED. Failed to communicate with the remote host, either due to network errors or because the host is not responding".
I'll found this error in documentation & forums, but I have no luck, maybe someone can help me with this issue. I attach the log files.
Thanks a lot.
There have been many complaints about transfer rate degradation in Converter 5.0.
Converter uses NFC (a proprietary VMware protocol) for cloning to managed destination. Security has been enhanced in Converter 5.0 by encrypting the data transfer. Unfortunately this has caused a more severe performance degradation than expected.
Switching off SSL encryption is a way to work around this issue. Here is how it is done:
I.e. it should look like:
... <nfc> <readTimeoutMs>120000</readTimeoutMs> <useSsl>false</useSsl> ...
During installation of VMWare vCenter converter Standalone 6.2.0 in Windows 7 ultimate OS, attached errors are observed and software is not installed successfully.
Tried repair and reinstall but still no success.
Hardware is Siemens IPC677D
Hello,
For beginning, I'm sorry for my poor english.
I need to convert a physical server to a virtual machine. But I can't because I have always this error : 'Unable to query the live source machine."
I had already convert two physical servers in a same LAN with the same VMWare convertor with success.
I have check all step on VMware Knowledge Base,
1. I can sign in with root on the physical machine.
2. I can connect the physical machine from Windows 10 which content VMWare convertor with putty.
3. I checked '.bashrc' on '/root' folder and there isn't line beginning by echo command.
4. Root user can sign in and passwd file is ok.
5. 'tmp' folder isn't a partition but I can create folder and file on this folder and right is :
ls -lisa /tmp/
1177346 4 drwxrwxrwt 23 root root 4096 Jul 21 20:38 .
I run VMware convertun such as administrator. You can't find log of my VMware convertor in attachment.
You can find more information about physical server :
Kernel : 'Linux jenkins 3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64'
lsb_release -a
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 7.11 (wheezy)
Release: 7.11
Codename: wheezy
For your information, I can see that on auth.log on physical server :
Jul 21 20:38:48 jenkins sshd[23491]: Accepted password for root from 10.1.10.55 port 49869 ssh2
Jul 21 20:38:48 jenkins sshd[23491]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
10.1.10.55 is my windows 10.
So I think my problem is on physical server.
Thank you.
We have 2 old servers running Oracle Enterprise server, a very old version that is (Enterprise Linux Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (October Update 8)).
Do you reckon there's any chance I can P2V these 2 servers?
Hi,
There seems to be 2 methods by which to turn a physical PC into a VM:
1) Using the vCentre Conversion Tool
2) Getting a disk image of the PC and creating a new VM using that disk image
My question is are there any pros / cons of using either method or do they both produce the same result?
In my case, it's easier for the client to give me a disk image of the PC but I would personally rather use the conversion tool if possible as it's for the purpose intended.
Thanks in advance.
Hi,
Just installed VMware vCenter Converter Standslone Server on a Windows 2008 Enterprise Server with no specific roles activated.
Upon startup I receive the message copied in title here.
I've pasted the logs there :
i am running vmware fusion (10.0.1) on a Mac (Mojave 10.14.6)
need to reduce the virtual disk from 240 GB to 140 GB on a Windows 10 x64 installation within the VM. i have logged into windows and reduced the C partition from the original 240 GB to 140 GB.
however, when i try to reduce the VMDK via the settings menu, it tells me that 240 MB is the minimum amount allowed.
other threads mention using VCenter Converter Standalone to reduce the size of the VMDK, but this appears to be a Windows-only application.
i am very much a noob at this, is there a way to reduce the drive for a mac-based VM?
thank you so much for any help you can provide.
bill
NOTE: this VMDK is NOT pre-allocated.
Hello
I'm curious if there are plans to make the previous versions available for download anymore? A few days ago when I go to the Download Product link for Converter Standalone there were 3 available options. Now, as of this past Friday, if you select anything other than 6.2 the page says the Binaries are missing.
This is a problem given the fact that I can't seem to get 6.2 to even install properly. There are other posts in this Forum with the same issue attempting to install 6.2. I've seen mention that using version 6.0 works with no problems. But of course, 6.0 is now missing from download link.
Ugggh
Hi,
may anyone have/had same issue.
i had 6.0 U3 latest vcenter and hosts.
and i converted some vm's from Hyper-V to Vmware Side.
i then upgraded vcenter to 6.7 U3.
since then i'am not able to convert anymore.
--> (converter.fault.CloneFault) {
--> faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null,
--> description = "converter.fault.SSLVerificationFault",
--> msg = ""
--> }
i tried
- Re/installed Agent on Client Side
- Re/installed Converter on Server
i don't understand why that SSLVerificationFault happens. i also tried to convert directly to esxi 6.0. getting kinda user/password error. but user and pass is right.
only working way in moment is to convert through UNC path and then to import to vCenter.
any thoughts what that could be and how to solve it? as Converter seems long time not maintained.
thx
Max
Hi,
With vCenter Converter 6.2.0 on my Windows 10 computer , I tried to convert Windows server 2016 from a physical box to a VM on EXSi 6.7 with the source machine's local administrator account.
I always got error message
and "GetTokenInformation failed: 1312" on converter log even after disable both UAC and firewall on the 2016.
Also, I am confused I chosen 3 HDs (C, E and F) and Windows restored partitions to concert.
and the source has 2 HDs:
But, on the Summary picture above I only can see Number of disks: 2
I am not sure that is no issue.
I need to use VMware Converter to shrink VMs (hosted by VMware ESXi 6.5 hosts) with thin vmdk disks.
Disks are overallocated, so that a thin vmdk disk whose size is 300 GB hosts a Windows partition whose size is 100 GB.
I need to reduce the size of the vmdk disk to the same as the guest partition.
I was told that VMware Converter is the best solution to solve the problem and I made some tests with version 6.2.
I got contraddictory results as:
Is there a way to preserve the VM configuration?
Should I use a different version of VMware Converter?
Should I use any other solution to get the same result?
Is there any way to schedule the conversion via command line?
Regards
marius
I'm using vCenter Converter standalone on a Windows 2008 server SP2.
In windows services panel, I found all the services of vCenter converter (Agent, Server and Worker) are not started.
When I was trying to start them manually, I got an error message saying "Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion".
I've already added an entry [ServicesPipeTimeout] in my registry [HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control], and I set its value to 3000000000.
However, after I restarted the computer, these services still can't start. The error message was the same as before.
Anyone can help ?
This post I wrote with the help of the translator. Please excuse English.
I am trying to migrate a server of approximately 3.5 TB of disk in USE, this is a database computer with SQL. I'm taking it to VMware 5.5.0 with the Standalone Converter version 6.1.1.
The problem is that I am already 3 attempts of migration and in all the same error seems to me, in the names of the files leave as additional data the% in which they fail.
Seek help with some colleagues but they only found me an error where the connection is interrupted but does not indicate the specific reason.
Attached records of the tasks you run.
I will be waiting for your support.
Thank you.
Hello,
I am trying to do a P2V conversion of a Windows 7 system running vConverter version 6.2.
I would prefer to store the file created by vConverter on a NAS but it rejects it saying it cannot find the file - extension is .vmc.
However, other applications can write to the NAS.
The NAS is mounted to the Z: drive. The program did create a directory but stops there.
Any advice would be welcome.
When the source server has multiple swap volumes on LVM, VMWare Converter 6.2 migrates them all but uses in /etc/fstab only the last volume's name, causing only one of the swap volumes to be used for swapping and the following kind of errors at boot:
systemd-fstab-generator[1460]: Failed to create swap unit file /run/systemd/generator/dev-vg_rhel7-lv_swap2.swap, as it already exists. Duplicate entry in /etc/fstab?
When the source server had following entries:
/dev/vg_rhel7/lv_swap swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/vg_rhel7/lv_swap2 swap swap defaults 0 0
... then the Converter generated following entries to /etc/fstab in the resulting server:
/dev/vg_rhel7/lv_swap2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/vg_rhel7/lv_swap2 swap swap defaults 0 0
Since the swap volumes themselves are correctly migrated the only change required is to fix the volume names in /etc/fstab for the swap entries.
I'm having issues with uninstalling the VMware Converter Standalone agent keeps generating the following error: Could Not Stop Service When I check services, i'm unable to locate the VMWare Converter Standalone Agent service which i'm assuming requires the service to run before uninstallation. I have several times of creating the service but to no avail I keep getting the same error. I followed the following thread in order to create the service: communities.vmware.com/thread/605585 K