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Unable to Obtain Hardware Information For The Selected Machine
It's been a long, hard struggle to get this far, but now that I have successfully installed the ESXi Hypervisor on my powerful Dell T710 Server, I am not able to convert the thousands of hours worth of...
View ArticleP2V SLES9 source disk missing
I'm trying to convert SLES 9 to virtual machine but vCenter Converter shows only /boot and swap partitions. What to do?
View Article"FAILED: Unable to create a VSS snapshot of the source volume(s). Error code:...
hello everyone,I'm trying to convert a physical Windows 2008 R2 (SP1) to virtual, using Vmware vCenter Converter Standalone version 5.5 build 1362012, it fails at 1% (after around 40mins) with the...
View ArticleLocal System Converter - "Unable to obtain hardware information for the...
New to the product. VMWare novice. I have a Win7 64 system that I'd like to convert to VM. Running Converter on the local machine and choosing 'This Local Machine'. No AV installed and Windows...
View ArticleHost key can't be retrieved
I am using VMWare Converter and all 3 machines are on the same subnet. Going through the logs it appears to happen directly after a checkSSHFingerprint.sh script is called. Google finds one result with...
View ArticleP2V of Centos Server fails with key can't be retrieved
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...
View ArticleFAILED: Unable to find the system volume, reconfiguration is not possible.
While converting a Server 2003 server to an ESX 3.5 server I received this message after 95% Complete. Error Reconfiguration failed. With a status of: FAILED: Unable to find the system volume,...
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Error conversion linux RHEL 5
Hi,I've a converted a RHEL 5 host (HP model) with Virtual converter 4 boot CD.I would to create a VM for VSphere 5 environment. On ESXi v.5, I execute vmkfstools on the vmdk file and I I create a VM...
View ArticleP2V Fedora Linux Box with a software raid disk
Hi, I'm in trouble converting (p2v) a Fedora 7 Linux Box into ESXi 4. The Linux Box has a software RAID 1 disk (mdadm) that is not recognized by vCenter Converter (neither using cold clone with...
View ArticleCannot start virtual machine
Hi Converting a hyper-v image to an vmware image works with a charm.But when I try to startup the vm - process fails:-----------vim-cmd vmsvc/power.on #vmPowering on VM:Power on failed Any hints,...
View ArticleP2V windows 2003 R2 64 bit failed Error: Unable to clone volume 'D:'.
Hello everyone Can someone help me with the issue P2V a win2k3 64 bit machine into vmware?I am using esxi 4.1 Update 1 with vmware converter standalone 4.3, it always stopped at Drive D, while no...
View ArticleV2V online guest fails
Hi All, Trying to V2V vSphere4 guest machine (2008 R2) to new vSphere5.5, using VMware Converter Standalone5.5. Source Type: Powered-On Machine. Fails to start with "permission to perform this...
View ArticleConverter standalone stalls at 1% due to username/password
Hello, I'm attempting to do a hot P2V linux. I get coonected, machine creates new vm, boots but when asking for helper password it fails attempting to login with helper login, and password saying not...
View ArticleP2V Conversion Fails with 'Platform-specific error 38'
I need to virtualize a Dell laptop running Windows 7 Pro. The host computer is running VMware Workstation 10. I enter all the requested information and it looks like it's going to work before getting...
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VMware Converter 5.5.0 - Error opening installation log file
Launching as administrator VMware-converter-en-5.5.0-1362012.exe on Windows 7. Getting this error:"Error opening installation log file. Verify that the specified log file location exists and it is...
View ArticleNewly converted Windows 7 VM boots to BSOD
I just converted a Windows 7 x32 bit physical PC to a VM using the standalone converter (version 5.5) and I have imported it into my inventory in ESXI 5.5 server but when I go to boot it, I get the...
View Articlewindows 2003 and linux centos VMs failed to start after crash test
Hello,We have a Vmware Vsphere 5.5 cluster running DRS and HA. We did a crash test: shutdown completely an ESXi in order to see if its VMs will be restarted correctely in the Other Hosts. This worked...
View ArticleP2V with Converter standalone 5.5 - Permission to perform this operation denied
Hi, Im atempting to perform a P2V and stall at the Source System section with "permission to perform this operation was denied" (screen shot attatched as 1.jpg - Note, i blanked out part of the acocunt...
View ArticleUnixP2VVolumeCloneFailedEvent error in Converter 5.1
Hello Experts, I'm having a problem converting the RHEL 5.x powered Linux machine in Converter 5.1. I'm not sure if this is a known issue or a bug. Is there anyone experienced the same issue? Any help...
View ArticleP2V fail at 1% with Linux Debian - Host Key can't be retreive
Hello, I have a problem with Converter stand alone 5.1 or 5.5, i hope you can help me there. Anything is working really nice with Windows P2V. On Linux Debian (5, 6) i don't have succeed to make it...
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