Hi,
I have a VM (Ubuntu Linux) that has disks that reference 3 different mapped physical partitions (root, user, swap). The VM is v9.0 virtual machine that runs in Workstation 11. That is, each of the VM drives is mapped to one partition on a physical disk in the host machine. I'm trying to convert the VM so that the disks will be virtual segmented VMDKs files and get rid of the physical volume access and just use standard files.
My problem is that Converter (v6.1) insists on converting the entire physical disk (all partitions), not just a selected/selectable partition(s). This problem is exacerbated by the fact that two of the VM hard disk partitions are located on the same physical drive... so it wants to convert the same disk twice. It is not a small disk (2TB).
Looking at the Converter user manual there is supposed to be an 'Advanced' button that allows changes and partial conversions... except that there isn't any 'Advanced' button that I can find. Converter is running in administrative mode on Win7.
Is it not possible to convert 2 partitions off of one physical drive in my host machine and end up with two virtual disk files?
Am I missing options somewhere? I do *not* have a entry "Select volumes to copy" in the "Disk/Edit" panel as is described in the documentation.
I'm not past creating a 4th partitioned disk, booting up the machine under SystemRescueCD and doing a physical partition copy from the mapped physical disk to the new file-based disk from inside the VM... but I'd pretty much thought Converter was supposed to preclude having to jump through those hoops.
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated...
Thanks,
Gary