Hi everyone!

I'm trying to convert CentOS 6 VM from Xen 6 to vCenter 5.5 by VMware Converter Standalone 6.2

Everything is ok but the percentage is always 1%. When I opened the log, I got an error:

"error: class Vmacore::Ssl::SSLHandshakeTimeoutException(SSL Exception: Operation was canceled)"

After I try to increase SSLHandshakeTimeout in /etc/vmware/hosts/config.xml and /etc/vmware/rhttpproxy/config/xml from default 20000 miliseconds to 120000 miliseconds, the error is still happened. Somebody help me to fix this error, please!

My log file is attached below

Thank everyone!

Hi,

We are going to migrate our vSphere infrastructure to a new platform.  We intend to make use of this opportunity to upgrade vSphere 6.0 to vSphere 6.5.

Consultant suggests us to make use of VMware Convertor to migrate VM from the old Data Centre to the new one.

Just wonder whether there is any change we need to work on the VM after migrated via VMware Convertor ?  What will be the bottle neck for conversion (Network / CPU of the machine running VMware Converter or CPU of the destination ESXi Host) ?  How many VM we can convert at the same time (It seems to be 4) ?

Thanks

Hi:

   I  try to build a task to  clone my  virtual  machine  from one esxi to another  by the power off type .  I  face the below error , while  I  try to discover the source mochine client3 on the source esxi.

As  I try other virtual  machine, it work fine. After  I   power off the virtual machine vnc-04 , I can discover the client3. But it find the wrong vmdk, which work for vnc-03 as below snapshot.

May you help me find the reason? Thanks  a lot.

Hello,

I'm trying to do a p2v with vmconverter 6.2.0 from a Redhat 7.4 server. All goes well but at startup between the bios and grud I have the message:

error: can't find command ':'

I press the spacebar several times to get to the grub menu. Then the start of the vm is happening normally.

I'm using vCenter server 5.5.0 build 2183111

Where can this error come from?

Hi,

I use vcbmounter script to backup all my vm's, Windows and Solaris. When I use VMware converter on little VM, (-+25G) everything is fine, but when I want to do a full VM restore with a Huge VM I get a failed. Also I restore on a giggy ethernet and it takes lots of time to restore. Even if the virtuals disks are empty. I upgraded to the last version of Converter (3.03) and still the same issues. Anyone came across those problemes? Any other way of restoring a full VM is velcome.

Thank you

When proceeding to cloning a Linux server, we identify an erratic behavior The OS version that was involve in this process was a RHEL 6.4 (Santiago), running on a physical server.

As the official VMWare documentation explain, when you proceed to virtualize a Linux system, the process has to create a VM called Helper, into the virtual environment.

During this process, we sniffing the communication, to understand ports and the whole connections required during these task, detect that the process started with the communication through the SSH protocol, between the physical RHEL and the Converter, and through port 443, between the Converter and the hypervisor side.

When the conversion process reaches the step to build the helper vm, the communication stops.

We proceeded to analyze the different logs/registers, and detected, that the build of vm helper never ended correctly, if we wanted to use a specific network in our virtual environment, which had different vlans tags, defined.

In the other hand, we have made, countless succeed P2V conversions in other networks before and the whole process finished in a successfully way

So, the next step was to identify the differences between this network configuration in our vSwitch and in our virtualization environment, with the rest of the networks in which we have made innumerable P2V conversions before.

The difference that appeared between this network and others that were configured in the virtual environment was that it had several vlans tags. Having identified this, we could understand that the problem was that the converter, which could not tag these vlans.

In other words, this was the root cause, and why the converter could not finish the construction of the virtual Helper machine in our virtual environment.

Team used:

Converter 6.2.0 Build 7348398

RHEL 6.4 (Santiago)

VCenter  6.0.0 Build 3634794

Hello.  I am trying to install VMware Converter in Ubuntu 18.04-LTS.  I have no idea how to do this.  Install documentation for the operating system or just linux in general is virtually non-existent.  I read the current documentation and looks like I can only install this latest version in Windows, however there is an open source download available.  Can someone please help?  I downloaded the latest file.  The name of the file is VMware-converter-6.2.0-7348398.odp, of which I extracted all the way to VMware-converter-6.2.0-7348398.odp.tar, a tar file.  In general, I just want VMware Converter installed on my linux operating system.  Any help or guides\documentation would be appreciated.

Hi guys !

I have a physical server running Windows Server 2008 ( join domain ).

I has using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone ( Vesion: 6.1.1 ), I want to convert a physical server this to virtual system ( have vCenter anh 2 hosts )

When i was run VMware vCenter Converter Standalone to 98% that display FAILED: Unable to reconfigure the destination virtual machine like this picture.

I was attached file the log of job converter Failed this.

So can you help me fix and know why FAILED this ?

Thanks.

Hi.

I'm trying to convert a Debian 6 linux.

But am not able to do this.

The converter first can't see /boot.

After remounting /boot directly this works.

But now I ran into a new problem.

The converter can't see the / partition.

Screenshots.

I try convert a Linux Machine, but the process stop at 3%, i see a password required,

before few minutes the process canceled

Hello ,

             i am installing Vcenter converter 5.0 standalone while installin port 443(http server) already in  use showinh what to to to complete my installation.

Hi all!

First, I would like to clarify that I'm new on VMware platform and sorry if I ask a question that has an easy resolution, but reading all threads and solutions I could not solve my issue.

I'm trying to convert a Linux centOS 7 physical machine to a virtual machine in a VMware Server Esxi 6.7.0. To perform this task I'm using vCenter Converter Standalone 6.2.0. I set all wizard options, job starts but at 3% it fails with error:

FAILED: A general system error occurred: connect (`10.240.107.11'): Network is unreachable connect (`10.240.107.11'): Network is unreachable connect (`10.240.107.11'): Network is unreachable connect (`10.240.107.11'):
Network is unreachable Network error. Host 10.240.107.11 key can't be retrieved. (return code 2)

I have performed some tips given in another discussions, such as:

– SSH configuration is allowing root to access the system remotely from port 22

# grep Root /etc/ssh/sshd_config

PermitRootLogin yes

# the setting of "PermitRootLogin without-password".

– IPtables allow connection on port 22

# iptables -L | grep ssh

ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere             tcp dpt:ssh ctstate NEW

– You are running Converter version 5.5.1 or greater (there is a known issue with older version that aren’t supporting DSA keys)

As I said before, I'm using vCenter Converter Standalone 6.2.0

– Add ALL:ALL parameter to “hosts.allow” parameter.

# cat /etc/hosts.allow

#

# hosts.allow   This file contains access rules which are used to

#               allow or deny connections to network services that

#               either use the tcp_wrappers library or that have been

#               started through a tcp_wrappers-enabled xinetd.

#

#               See 'man 5 hosts_options' and 'man 5 hosts_access'

#               for information on rule syntax.

#               See 'man tcpd' for information on tcp_wrappers

ALL:ALL

– Check DNS suffix

I'm doing the process using ip addresses... I'm not using names.

- Check network configuration

Linux, VMware server and machine with Converter have the same ip range and same netmask

- I'm running Converter as Administrator

This is an excerpt vmware-converter-server-4.log:

2018-07-18T08:41:40.175-03:00 info vmware-converter-server[05156] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [task,338] [task-16] -- BEGIN -- Convert

2018-07-18T08:41:40.191-03:00 info vmware-converter-server[05156] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [taskSpec,620] [task-16] [TaskMap] task-16:task-13

2018-07-18T08:41:40.199-03:00 info vmware-converter-server[08704] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] ConverterConnection: KeepAlive timer canceled, StopKeepAlive succeeded

2018-07-18T08:44:18.908-03:00 error vmware-converter-server[05156] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [task,350] [LRO] Unexpected Exception: vmodl.fault.SystemError

2018-07-18T08:44:18.909-03:00 info vmware-converter-server[05156] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [task,379] [task-16] -- ERROR -- Convert: vmodl.fault.SystemError

--> (vmodl.fault.SystemError) {

-->    faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null,

-->    reason = "connect (`10.240.107.11'): Network is unreachable

--> connect (`10.240.107.11'): Network is unreachable

--> connect (`10.240.107.11'): Network is unreachable

--> connect (`10.240.107.11'): Network is unreachable

--> Network error. Host 10.240.107.11 key can't be retrieved.

-->  (return code 2)",

-->    msg = ""

--> }

2018-07-18T08:44:18.909-03:00 info vmware-converter-server[05156] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [diagnosticManager,265] Retrieved taskInfo for "converter.task.Task:task-16" mapping it to "converter.task.Task:task-16".

2018-07-18T08:44:18.909-03:00 info vmware-converter-server[05156] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [diagnosticManager,305] The task with id = "task-16" was found to be a "recent" task.

2018-07-18T08:44:18.910-03:00 info vmware-converter-server[05156] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [diagnosticManager,319] No existing log bundle found for task with id = "task-16". The task is still "recent" so a log bundle will now be generated for it.

2018-07-18T08:44:18.910-03:00 info vmware-converter-server[05156] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [diagnosticManager,1097] Retrieving task related diagnostics for server task with id = "task-16".

2018-07-18T08:44:18.992-03:00 info vmware-converter-server[06108] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Run 0 of job "job-16" finished with an error. -- struct Converter::Server::Job::JobExecutor::SchedulerUpdateSpec __thiscall Converter::Server::Conversion::ConversionJobExecutorImpl::UpdateJob(class Converter::Server::Job::InternalJob &,bool,const class Converter::Server::Scheduler::SchedulerItemStatistics &,const class Converter::Task::TaskInfo &) ("d:/build/ob/bora-8466193/bora/sysimage/lib/converter/server/conversion/conversionJobExecutorImpl.cpp:405")

2018-07-18T08:44:19.138-03:00 info vmware-converter-server[06108] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Suspended 1 scheduler items for job (job-16) -- void __thiscall Converter::Server::Job::JobProcessorImpl::SuspendJobAux(const class Converter::Server::Job::InternalJob &,class Converter::VdbConnection &) ("d:/build/ob/bora-8466193/bora/sysimage/lib/converter/server/job/jobProcessorImpl.cpp:829")

Any clue with be apprecieated!

Thank you in advance

Best Regards

Great God, how can I migrate the virtual machine on vmwere 5.0 to 6.0? What are the methods?

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.

failed - number of virtual devices exceeds the maximum for a given controller

This error occurs when I select the Synchronize option. Any Help?

Trying P2V Windows Server 2008 R2 to ESXI 6.5.0

I receive the following error when trying to start a p2v conversion on the powered-on machine that is being converted and saving to network share. Error happens immediately after wizard closes.

The converter software is able to get to the share and write, as I tested it by saving the log files from the converter to the share so it does not appear to be a rights issue.

Thoughts?

Hello,

I was attempting to convert a ubuntu device into a virtual machine using Converter 6.2.

Unfortunately it did not see my (definitely existing) boot partition, and after sifting through the worker logs the following line leads me to believe nvme source disks are not supported:

> [2018-07-27 17:36:55,709 INFO storage ]: Parted returned device with path: /dev/nvme0n1, type: 0

--> [2018-07-27 17:36:55,709 INFO storage ]: Skipping unsupported device with path: /dev/nvme0n1, type: 0

which to me seems like it would only be a semantic problem due to the other device name.

Is my asessment correct?

Any ideas on how to convert this?

Thanks in advance

Hi

Im trying to migrate a VM using Converter 5.1 but I get the "Permission to perform this operation was denied" error message when i select the source machine (which is powered off) or when i click on the "view source details..."

I see the following error in the Convertor Standalone client log file "[05496 error 'wizardController'] Must be administrator to access physical computer"

The domain account I am using is a member of the Local Users group on the Convertor server and has Converter permissions on the source vCenter where the VM is.

Any ideas as to why I get this error?

VM Hardware version 9

2013-10-30T12:40:53.106+01:00 [05496 verbose 'wizardController'] Trying connection to VC server 'vcserver.domain.local' with user 'domain\domadminac'

2013-10-30T12:40:53.106+01:00 [05496 verbose 'wizardController'] Getting VIM connection to vcserver.domain.local...

2013-10-30T12:40:53.106+01:00 [05496 info 'wizardController'] Reusing existing VIM connection to vcserver.domain.local

2013-10-30T12:40:53.106+01:00 [05496 verbose 'ManagedMachineDataConnectionLogger'] Getting VIM connection to vcserver.domain.local...

2013-10-30T12:40:53.106+01:00 [05496 info 'ManagedMachineDataConnectionLogger'] Connecting to host vcserver.domain.local on port 443

2013-10-30T12:40:53.106+01:00 [05496 info 'ManagedMachineDataConnectionLogger'] localVersion is: vim.version.version8

2013-10-30T12:40:53.107+01:00 [05496 info 'ManagedMachineDataConnectionLogger'] Remote version is: vim.version.version8

2013-10-30T12:40:53.107+01:00 [05496 verbose 'ManagedMachineDataConnectionLogger'] [VimApi] Local and Remote Version are the same. Talking with version vim.version.version8

2013-10-30T12:40:53.107+01:00 [05496 info 'ManagedMachineDataConnectionLogger'] Authenticating user domain\domadminac

2013-10-30T12:40:53.107+01:00 [05496 verbose 'HttpConnectionPool-000006'] HttpConnectionPoolImpl created. maxPoolConnections = 1; idleTimeout = 900000000; maxOpenConnections = 1; maxConnectionAge = 0

2013-10-30T12:40:53.322+01:00 [05496 error 'wizardController'] Must be administrator to access physical computer

2013-10-30T12:41:29.461+01:00 [05496 verbose 'HttpConnectionPool-000005'] [RemoveConnection] Connection removed; cnx: <SSL(<io_obj p:0x0555e980, h:-1, <TCP '0.0.0.0:0'>, <TCP '10.XXX.XXX.XXX:443'>>)>; pooled: 0

2013-10-30T12:41:29.461+01:00 [06592 verbose 'HttpConnectionPool-000003'] [RemoveConnection] Connection removed; cnx: <SSL(<io_obj p:0x051c30c0, h:-1, <TCP '0.0.0.0:0'>, <TCP '10.XXX.XXX.XXX:443'>>)>; pooled: 0

2013-10-30T12:41:39.477+01:00 [04588 verbose 'HttpConnectionPool-000006'] [RemoveConnection] Connection removed; cnx: <SSL(<io_obj p:0x0555eba8, h:-1, <TCP '0.0.0.0:0'>, <TCP '10.XXX.XXX.XXX:443'>>)>; pooled: 0

Message was edited by: GuyTC changed "target vCenter" to read "source vCenter"

Message was edited by: GuyTC : corrected errors in original question. It turns out my domain account was NOT a member of the Local Administrators group on the Converter server. Adding my domain account to the Local Admins group on the Converter server fixed the error.

Hello,

I'm getting this error when trying to convert a physical Ubuntu linux machine. (Picture attached).

We've tried everything on this post - VMware Knowledge Base  and all potential ideas from google!

I would appreciate if someone could look at the logs and tell us what we need to change in order to make this work.

Regards