Hi All,
I receive the error above when trying to convert a laptop last night. Does anyone know what this means and how I can resolve it? I've also included the log file for reference.
Thanks.
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Help Required - "Error: An error occurred during reconfiguration."
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ERROR -- Convert: converter.fault.ReconfigurationNoSystemVolumeFault
hi
i convert from my computer window 7 to vmware. if i found problem same attach file. how to fix it?
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Help, me please - Unable to find the system volume, reconfiguration is not possible
Hi someone,
I convert from my window 7 to vmware. I found error "unable to find the system volume, reconfiguration is not possible" and same in attached file.
Please help me how to fix it?
Regards
Carlo
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Converting P2V & V2V results in a VMware virtual server with no networking setup?
I think this is by default, but not sure, as everything I try when doing P2V & V2V (using VMware converter V5.5.1) results in a new virtual server in my VMware 5.1 infrastructure, in vCenter, but less any networking configurations.
My source servers are all statically IP assigned but the resulting virtual machine is set to DHCP no matter what options I choose. And when I view hidden devices on the target machine using Device Manger, it shows the original NIC- but hidden from the OS. Can someone confirm this is the case?
Thanks.
Source virtual farm: Version 4.1
Source physical machines: HP Proliant
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P2V Windows XP strategy
A customer needs to virtualize smany XP 32bit boxes as they run applications not compatible with later client OS versions.
They made a test virtualizing some XP boxes to a vSphere 5 infrastructure but users complain about performances, mainly while navigating in Internet.
Increasing the RAM from 256MB to 4GB solved the issue only partially, as the bottle-nek looks to be CPU and maybe video.
Given they need to convert many XP bvoxes, what is the best strategy to P2V the XP boxes making users happy?
Is it advisable to make the converted VM run as guest in physical boxes via VMware workstation or VMware Player?
Is it advisable to implement a dedicate host (maybe an ESXi (free) host to be used only for XP VMs?
Is there any guide to copnfigure the XP VMs to maximize performances and user experience?
Is there any known error to avoid?
Regards
marius
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Unable to convert local machine: "Unable to obtain hardware information for the selected machine" - please help!
We are trying to virtualize a local machine running Windows 7 Professional. After a long time searching and trying everything we can think of we are at a loss.
The local machine is a physical machine running Windows 7 Professional. It is an Intel i5 from Dell with just one disk and one primary partition.
There are however three partions including SYSTEM and HP_RECOVERY (100MB NTFS SYSTEM, 915GB OS NTFS which is the primary boot disk, 16 GB NTFS HP_RECOVERY).
The user(s) are normally using a domain, if that is important.
We are using the VMWare vCenter Converter Standalone (we also tried it over the network, but now just local)
The source type is: "Powered-on machine"
The powered-on machine is: "This local machine"
The error message is: "Unable to obtain hardware information for the selected machine".
The VMWare-converter-server log warns about locals begin defined and results with an error: "Ufa.HTTPService"
The converter-gui log says: "Cannot query source HW info: vmodl.fault.systemError"
Please see the attached logs for more details.
Please give us some pointers because we are at a loss...
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CPU Core value mismatch
Dear team,
I have done sucessfull P2V for almost 10 physical servers in that i have found one discrepancy.
after P2V VMs are working fine and all VMs having 8vCPUs Problem is In device manager and task manager it show 8 vCPUs but in SYSTEM PROPERTIES it show 2 core.
Just want to know while doing p2v what i step i had done wrong and how to resolve this discrepancy... for more details please find the screenshot.
regards
Mr VMware
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Converter causes receiving ESXi Host to drop connections, initiate a core dump and reset network adapters.
Good Morning Everyone,
I'm stumped here and could use some guidance and reference points from everyone's expertise. I will try to describe the esxi environment and the issue experienced and we can duplicate it.
COLO Environment:
Cisco UCS Chassis with four blades (latest greatest system, just installed by another vendor)
ESXi 5.5.0 Build 1746974
Each Blade has four 10GB uplinks in to a Cisco Interconnect and out to a 10GB CORE switch
vNIC0 and 1 are in a vDS with all the defined usable port groups in an "Active/Active" state
vNIC2 and 3 are in a vSwitch for iSCSI boot for ESXi. in an Active/Active State
NETAPP storage connected to Fabric Interconnect via redundant 10GB uplinks.
vCenter is a VM located on ESXi1
Network Environment:
1GB MetroE from COLO to HQ office where all the existing servers to be migrated are located
Network traverses two separate subnets with ACLs from a 172. to a 192.
Ping responses between both sites are 1 to 2 ms.
The issue:
The latest VMware Converter Standalone 5.5.2 is installed on the vCenter Server.
1. Connect Converter to 2008 R2 Hyper-V Host and select the downed server to convert
2. After configuration modifications, initiate the conversion
3. Two minutes in, the converter fails on network
4. While troubleshooting, looking at the vCenter we initiated another conversion failure we noticed the ESXi host that was receiving the conversion drops the network adapters and reset them causing the vm's on that ESXi host to lose connectivity. The ESXi does a core dump and resets the adapters then everything reconnects. This happens in seconds but the issue is quite alarming. I've never seen this before and unless I'm google searching the wrong thing can't find anything about it.
Reduplicated the Issue:
We were able to reduplicate the issue outside of the UCS chassis by doing the following:
1. Took Dell PowerEdge R900 and installed the same version of ESXi on to the server
2. Plugged the network adapters (this time 1GB network adapters and same IP Subnet) in to the same switch of the Hyper-V server from above
3. Installed vmware converter on a different 2008 R2 windows system locally on the same switch as the ESXi host and Hyper-V host.
4. Initiated the same conversion
5. The same issue above happens the server blips, core dumps and resets the network adapters.
Any thoughts or ideas are graciously welcome. We are opening a ticket with Cisco and VMware but also wanted to throw it out in to the community.
Thanks Everyone!
Fred
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Converted VMWorkstation 7 to ESXi 5.0 and now the Java connection fails
We built a smart card solution for an Oracle web server that uses Java. Java reads the certs from the browser and passes the username to Oracle via a cookie. This works great when running on VMWare workstation. We converted it to ESXi to start a full testing cycle and the Java does not work. Best I can tell the username cookie is null. I can convert the machine BACK to workstation and it works. So it's not code. Everything else works as I can log in without a smart card manually entering the un/pw and the application works fine. I'm struggling to understand the problem with the converter. To start with, why isn't it an exact clone? It comes over with DCHP instead of static IP addresses. I can fix all of that, but I don't think I should have to. It also "Remembers" Net adaptors that aren't there anymore and asks me about them. I'm sure that somewhere in this process VMware is changing the server setup and breaking the application. But I can't find it for the life of me. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Robbin
I had posted this in vcenter community, but I think it is better suited to the converter community.
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Blue Screen on Converting Windows 2003 Server
Hi,
I have one VM which is running Windows 2003 and HDD is 100GB IDE and Split 2GB , Due to this Split issue , I am unable to backup VM , I tried to convert the VM , Converstion successful but when i start VM its giving blue screen. Is there any otherway to get rid of this Disk Split Issue.
Regards
Usman Ghani
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"Warning: Unable to delete the block-level tracking bitmap" during Synchronise
Hello, I'm hoping someone can help me.
I have a very long running, nightmare of a P2V. I had issues getting the P2V started, then getting it running quickly, then once it eventually finished the first pass after about 5 days, I had problems running the Synchronizations. I eventually found that was due to Shadow Copies on C:. Disabled those and I could then reliably perform periodic Synchronizations, until we were ready to switch over..
Then I went on holiday. Whilst I was away, my colleagues had issues with the Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus on the server. Various things happened, including reboots and removal and re-installation of Anti-Virus and Anti-Spam.
Unfortunately, the synchronization is now no longer working. The error in the GUI is Warning: Unable to delete the block-level tracking bitmap 'IncrementalConversion(job-5:42)-[52 83 d1 c0 4c 11 ae e3-cc 3c 8e 81 bf 68 6d 0c]'. This is being repeated for each subsequent Sync I'm trying to run. I think the main error in the worker log is WindowsBitmapDriverWrapper::StartBitmapDriver: Unable to start the bitmap driver, error=0, reason=Service manager error but 'BMDRVR' is showing as running.
There's also mention of ERROR 2338 opening disk ha-nfc://[SS2_NFS1] MVSERVER/MVSERVER_2-000001.vmdk@192.168.0.12:902!52 1e 31 f9 09 b9 0b 1f-66 ca a1 50 1d ab ec 3e. MVSERVER_2-000001.vmdk doesn't currently exist, but MVSERVER_2-000002.vmdk gets renamed to MVSERVER_2-000001.vmdk during the process. Out of interest, can these snapshots be deleted prior to a Sync or will that cause the P2V to just fail?
I'm using Converter 5.5.2 installed on the source server. I've rebooted the ESX server, and I've run all the usual connectivity tests between the source server and destination host. It's a flat, fairly basic network.
I'm desperately hoping I can get this Sync working so that I can finalize it tonight. There's a lot of Data and I really hope I don't have to start from scratch. I'm going to try rebooting the source server tonight (unless someone advises against it).
Thanks in advance!
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"An error occurred during the conversion: 'Unknown exception'",
We're using Vcenter to P2V some of our servers. Most have worked, but the ones that fail, fail with a description that is not helpful at all.
mostRecentError = (converter.fault.CloneFault) { --> dynamicType = <unset>, --> faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null, --> description = "Unknown exception", --> msg = "An error occurred during the conversion: 'Unknown exception'", --> }, --> numConsecutiveErrors = 1,
We're tried several different ways of cloning including matching the hardware, not thin provisioning, setting permissions, using a domain admin account and still we get this error.
has anyone else had this error and figured out a solution?
Thanks.
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Error P2V
Hi,
When I want to convert a phisical machine to a virtual I see this error :
An error occured while opening a virtual disk. Verify that the Converter server and the running source machines have a network access to the source and destination ESX/ESXi hosts.
I uploded de log.
Thank you
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P2V Windows 2008 R2 in DSRM, work with domain member but not with DC
Hi,
I could successful do a P2V migration of a Windows 2008 R2 domain member server in DSRM safe mode. But when I try the same procedure with
the domain controller, I got that VSS snapshot error that says that VSS can not run in DSRM.
FAILED: Unable to create a VSS snapshot of the source volume(s).
Error code: 2147754758 (0x80042306)
So, my question is, why the VSS snapshot worked in the win2k domain member(no roles)?
Can I migrate the domain controller in offline mode with another tool? Or is there any way to migrate that domain controller using vmware converter in DSRM mode?
Thanks
Oliver
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Conversion fails due to SSL certificate issues - can I work around this?
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:
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--> * 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
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FAILED: An error occured while opening a virtual disk. Verify that the Converter server and the running source machines have a network access to the source and destination ESX/ESXi hosts.
I have a physical server that is sitting on the DMZ. It is not connected to the domain. I am trying to convert it with the converter and I am getting an error message, FAILED: An error occured while opening a virtual disk. Verify that the Converter server and the running source machines have a network access to the source and destination ESX/ESXi hosts. The server on the DMZ is on a different network then the converter.
I have searched and added all of my vm host to the host file on the physical server. I can ping back and forth to all the host yet i still get the above message. Can anyone give me some pointers here.
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Converting external usb hard drive into a virtual machine
Hello,
I would like to know how can i convert external usb hard drive into a virtual machine using the converter.
Thanks,
Nir.
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Error, "can't query source HW info... " WAIT!!!, source is an image file
While in converter gui I got the "source parameter invalid"
from the gui.log "wizardController'] Cannot query source HW info: converter.fault.ImportSourceFault"
Converter 5.5.2
Acronis Echo 9.7 was source of backup
I found no "image not supported" error
"Build Filter not found" errors and others, like it decided not install them.
Isn't the Converter able to actually convert images. It looks like all the answers say to "reboot and use acronis offline to convert image... "
michael clyde
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Offline Install VMWare tools
Hi All,
I would like to perform a scripted/automated install of VMware tools on a newly-created windows 7 guest while its NIC is disconnected. My research shows that this can only be done with VMware converter as I have tried powercli- mount-tools command is available which just mounts the vCD to ready for a manual tools install. upgrade-tools also only upgrades an existing tools install, can't install.
So I tried a configure-machine task in converter using the GUI and it worked as expected/needed. This looks like the way forward but I want to automate it. Converter-cli.exe exists on Converter Standalone v5.1 but appears to have been depreciated or otherwise no documentation provided on how to use it. The basic help it comes with speaks to xml files to submit jobs but doesn't detail sample XMLs or how to acquire them so it seems like a dead-end.
Are there any other ways, particularly with powershell/powercli? My issue is I'm not a developer, don't have visual studio and it would be an undertaking to acquire and learn the converter SDK. Does the converter server have a web service that I could send HTML get/posts to that would submit a simple tools install/reconfigure job?
Thanks
Pete
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Converter Standalone: compatibility for older OSes
Hi all,
I need to P2V a WServer 2003 SP2 but Converter Standalone 5.5.2 is not compatible with that OS.
After some research, it seems that Converter 5.0.1 is the latest version supporting that system.
My environment is 5.5 U1.
Will version 5.0.1 work with vSphere 5.5 U1 without any issues?
Thank you!
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