Cold clone a Windows 2008 R2 machine
Hi, Is there any way to cold clone Windows 2008 R2 machine? As far as I know there is no vmware 5.1 boot cd for cold cloning. So I've tried to use latest cold clone cd (4.1.1 - 206170). Problem is that...
View ArticleError Reconfiguration failed. With a status of: FAILED: Unable to find the...
While converting a Windows 7 physical computer to a 'VMWare Workstation or other VMware virtual machine' he receives this message after 98% of the way through. Error Reconfiguration failed. With a...
View Articleconverting Amazon Linux AMI instance to ESX 3.5
I have multiple Amazon VM machines I've created, and am hosting, on the Amazon EC2 platform. I'd like to convert over to ESX 3.5. Sales tells me there's probably a way to do this using vCenter...
View ArticleFAILED: An error occured while opening a virtual disk. Verify that the...
Hi everybody,I receive this error when I try to convert a machine, this machine are in the same net with others that I didn't have problem to convert, the error occurred at 1% progress. I tried several...
View ArticleCentOS File System Changes after P2V
Yesterday night, successfully we have migrated centos physical system into VM using VMware Standalone Converter 5.0.1.After P2V centos file system in VM changed from ext4 to ext3. Does any one faced...
View ArticleConverter Windows Server Core 2008r2 for VMware ESXI 5.5
Hello, I need convert a machine Windows Server Core 2008R2 for VMware ESXI 5.5. I use VMWare vCenter Converter Standalone client 5.5, but when try convert this machine the following error message:...
View ArticleDo I put the "/3GB" switch back into a converted virtual server?
I had to remove the "/3GB" switch from the Boot.ini to convert a Windows 2003 x86 server running SQL, but the converted virtual server now only recognises 1.6GB RAM. Is it safe to put the "/3GB" switch...
View ArticleWhat is the faster way of converting VMWare workstation VM's to ESXi?
Hi there, Was curious what is the faster way to convert a VMWare workstation VM to an ESXi compatible VM. Is the VMWare converter standalone method at the following URL the faster method:...
View ArticleVcenter upgrade and VSC compatibilty and migration approach
Hi, I currently have an environment containing 17 ESXi 4.1 hosts being managed by VC 4.1. The old VC physical server is to be decommed and a new one installed along with several additional ESXi 5.5....
View ArticleP2V very old W2K server succes story
Hi, I would like to share with you, because I spend time to reach my goal. OS was Windows 2000 SP4 with TSE application enable on very old HP Proliant (and an other one with original White Compaq...
View Articlewin2008r2 standard edition - P2V
hi! I've a physical machine running Win2008 R2 standard version that I would like to convert into VM for patch and software testing. The plan is to do the P2V via VMware converter 5.5 standalone from...
View ArticleConverter Standalone Linux P2V fails to clone /boot
New thread from my post in http://communities.vmware.com/message/1341524#1341524. I'm stuck with the issue of failed cloning of the /boot partition at 3%.Source machine is a RHEL 3 box. The DNS...
View ArticleSysprep problem when trying to virtualize a Windows 7 PC
Hi Guys, When I'm trying to virtualize a Windows 7 PC it failed with the following error : "Unable to proceed subce tge sysprep parameters provided are not correct" What should I do to make it works?...
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P2V converter : There is no '/boot' directory mounted on the source machine
I get this error when i try to convert one of my machine. After a long while of debbuging my first issues, I am now stucked on this problem.I have seen online that it could be a RAID system but i have...
View ArticleP2V a Windows 98 box
I need to virtualize a very old box still running Windows 98.I presume that using VMware Converter for such old OS is not supported.However, can anybody suggest any possible strategy, including using...
View ArticleV2V MSCS CLUSTER ISSUE
Hi All,Our target is to clone the Production environment in order to perform VMware SRM tests. The production env consists of Clustered VMs with SAP application on top.We have tried to below approach...
View ArticleP2V a Windows 2000 (!) server
I need to P2V an old Windows 2000 server.What VMware converter version should I use?Is it advisable touse the latest version of VMware Converter and P2V the server starting from a Symantec backupor...
View ArticleEvery trying to convert Linux Redhat with Ext2
Dear Friend, I would like to asking everytime i'm trying to convert My Linux Redhat and harddisk type is ext2, it show error on 97%. I don't know how to trying and make it clear. every day looking for...
View ArticleMigrate off other product to VMWare. p2v Linux and Windows (solaris x86) fails
I'm an individual user running Parallels VM hypervisor on Windows and Linux hosts. I have an educational development system built on these VMs. git, svn, rtc, jenkins,... I need to port the VMs to...
View ArticleError by convert P2V
Hi all.I have a problem. Try convert and have this error: FAILED: A general system error occurred:A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of...
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