Did anyone have the similar problem? the following is about my current environment:
1 To-be converted OS: Windows Server 2003 R2, two partitions
2 converter: 5.1
3 Vcenter :5.1
4 Esxi: 5.0 with only local store.
Welcome to shared your valuable ideas, thanks in advance!
Hi,
I am using Vmware Converter 5.1 to convert a 80 Gb vm to resize it. It is showing the estimated time of completion in 13 and half hours i need to convert several other VM's in my environment of higher size but am skeptical as they are business critical and i can keep them shut down for a long time . Also, these VM's have a huge size in matter of disk space and memory usage. I need to know any way to acclerate the process . Also, i would be extremely grateful if any one can tell me whether i can resize a Rhel VM to reduce physical disk usage.
Thanks and regards
Nikhil
I've tried this now in 5.0.1 and 5.1 converters, and the problem happens when using a domain account OR using the root login for a standalone machine (that is attached to vCenter). EVERY time I try to convert a machine from P2V, I get the following error: "A specified parameter was not correct. info.owner" The release notes say that this is due to domain login credentials and the workaround is to use local authentication. Trying that (as 'root') still doesn't work.
When is this bug scheduled to be fixed? And/or is there another workaround? This is very frustrating, as there are many machines we're trying to decom, but we can't do so until we've moved them to our VM cluster setup (as the images are still required).
Hi,
I tries converting a Powered on VM using Vmware converter 5.1 which failed giving the attached error. Can anyone please help regarding the same. Kindly let me know if there any steps i need to follow.
Thanks,
Nikhil.
Hi,
I have to do a P2V conversion of several Windows 2003 SP2 (not R2) Standard Edition servers. Some servers are domain controllers, while other servers running MS SQL 2005 with large databases (700 GB - 1 TB).
I prefer to do a hot conversion or are there reasons tot do a cold conversion. Of course database will be taken offline before start of conversion.
The release notes of VMware Standalone converter says it only supports Windows 2003 R2 SP2 not just Windows 2003 SP2. Can anyone confirm P2V conversion of Windows 2003 SP2 (not R2) is also possible ?
I know it is not a best practice to do a P2V conversion of Domain Controllers, but can it be done or it to risky ?
Please advice,
Martin
Hi friends,
I want to migrate to esxi server from vmware server 2. I use vmware standalone converter to convert and upload existing vmwareserver 2.0 VM to new esxi server. I properly shutdown vmwareserver 2 guest and it has vmware tools installed.
problem is, converted VM (is web hosting machine) looses all ip configuration and tries to get ip from DHCP server. also as I understand converter openes firewall, re-creates @0 file and removes all routes.
I see that there's no option to move esxi vithout some convertion process. Even I copy vmdk files to datastore still they need to be converted.
but I need to keep existing IP configuration. Trying to re-configure IPs is a pain and also I dont even know what else converter changes.
what do you suggest ?
Hi all,
I'm trying to convert an ext4 ubuntu 13.04 partition to an VMware machine but in a windows 8 installed on the same machine, i cannot do, the converter send me an error like "Unable to obtain information for the selected machine" when i select the local machine.
I tried with admin rigths and uac disabled, but the same happend.
What can i do?
Thanks for the help.
I've made several attempts to create a VM based on my HP Elitebook 8460p. So far I've had no success.
The conversion appears to work, but when I try and start the machine, Windows gets to the login screen and then bluescreens about 15 seconds later. The keyboard is not responsive before the bluescreen occurs.
I'm using VMWare vCenter Converter Standalone v5.1.0 build-1087880 to do the conversion and VMWare Player 5.0.0 build 812388 to run the VM.
The first run bluescreens with a 0x00000007 complaining about hpqkbfiltr.sys. Every other time after this, I still get the 0x00000007 bluescreen, but it doesn't mention any file.
I've removed the hpqkbfiltr.sys file and created a new image of the laptop with no change.
I don't know what I should do next to troubleshoot this issue.
I never had any issue when I created a VM of my old Dell laptop.
Any help would be appreciated.
Hi,
When is there going to be a converter that is compatible with ESXI 5.5?
I need to convert a Server 2003 over but the converter doesn't work, and having looked at the matrix there isn't a compatible version available.
I use vCenter 5.5 and ESXi 5.5.
In the process of converting Windows 2008 R2 server an error «A general system error occurred: Platform-specific error 1». I would be grateful for information about this error.
Log bundle are atteched.
Thanks.
I have had a hell of a time trying to convert a old windows 2000 physical to a virtual I installed the converter standalone 3.0 on the box it gets to 97% and fails out. Anyone have any advice on how I can get this to convert?
Hi,
I just recently converted one HP BL460 C G1 physical to virtual using converter 5.1. The conversion action got completed successfully. after the power on the VM while installing the device driver it fails to install all other drivers including SCSI controller, also in device manager it is not showing any disk, successfully install vmtools as well, but after restart. OS version: windows 2008 R2.
looking forward some helpful tips on that.
Thanks Abhay.
Hi All,
I have a Laptop with
6 GB RAM,
300 GB HDD,
2 CPU (1 socket and 2 cores)
Windows 7 64 bit OS.
I am having external HDD (2TB capacity with 460 GB free space) which will have the destination folder for the VM.
When I try to convert this using VMware converter standalone I am getting this following error.
"FAILED: The VSS snapshots cannot be stored because there is not enough space on the source volumes or because the source machine does not have any NTFS volumes. Error code: 2147754783 (0x8004231F)."
I have attached the error log for your reference.
Thanks in advance to all for helping to overcome this issue.
Cheers
Kumar RAMASAMY
Hi,
I have an ESXi 4.1 host and I'd like to virtualize a Windows 2003 Server that has several large iSCSI volumes attached that are already on a SAN. What's the best way to handle the iSCSI storage? Do I detach the iSCSI volumes, p2v the server, then attach the volumes to the new VM? Or is the converter smart enough to do that for me? Pointers to a best practices document or example would be great.
Thanks
Hello can anyone please tell me what the best practice is for converting on of the companies windows 2012 domain controllers and how to do it?
Thanks
Hello,
I am using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.1 in order to convert an old VMware Server 2 machine for ESXi 5.5
I clicked the "Convert machine" button, selected "VMware Workstation or other VMware machine" as source type.
As virtual machine file I selected the VMX file.
Clicking next, I get the "Unable to obtain hardware information for the selected machine" error.
I am using 7SP1 64bit, no firewall nor antivirus.
Thank you,
Francesco
In a disaster recovery tests environment, I need to convert images backup supported by VMware Converter (with 'Convert machine' ), or virtual machines with virtual disk on which a backup has been restored (with 'Configure machine'), with the automation of Converter SDK.
Converter Standalone already works well in this way.
I need, however, the automation of SDK.
VMware's samples show only the virtualization from physical resources, which parameters are configured in the '.properties' file.
I think there's a list of statements to add to the '.properties' file that regards the source image/virtual machine or type of convertion ('convert' or 'configure'), as shown during the Converter Standalone wizard.
Does anyone already follow this way of virtualization?
Hello,
I need help very quickly! I have to do a v2v migration of a server.
But the speed of converting is about 6 mb/s which is very slow... (about 1000 GB of Data)
Network-Speed is normal - no issues detected. When try to convert a physical machine, it is much faster!
I already disabled ssl encryption, but still no improvement!
The server must be running on Monday. Do you have any other ideas I can try?
What about using Converter 4.3 (which I read is more performant)
br
beistrich!
My conversion attempts fail at 1% over and over.
Here's my setup:
Source: Windows 2008 R2 x64 "physical" machine (Running on Proxmox on a server). I chose physical machine because Proxmox VMs are not in the supported list for virtual machine importing.
Destination: Local disk on my Windows 7 Machine for use in Workstation 10.0.
Upon conversion fail, Converter pops an error dialog with this text:
Virtualization of [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] failed: an error occurred during the conversion: 'converter.fault.NetworkShareConnectFault'
Standalone converter displays this message: "Error: Unable to parse the configuration file of the destination virtual machine."
Logs attached.
After digging through the community and knowledgebase (and a bit of googling), I tried the following to remedy:
1. Disabled UAC on source machine
2. Disabled firewall on source and destination machines
3. Disabled real-time antivirus protection on source and dest machines
4. Turned off simple file sharing on dest machine
5. Enabling file and printer sharing on dest machine
I've been at this all day long and am ready to throw in the towel. Please help?? 
I am trying to convert the Linux based VM that is hosed on hyper-V 2012 host machine, using VMware converter standalone utility, option "Power on" but it failed at 1 % and prompt error message that is attached with this post for reference.
Please help out...
