Hi
I'm trying to convert a fusion VM running 32bit linux to run on my ESXi 6 server ... the conversion seems to go ok but the converted VM doesn't boot - i'm getting a call stack dump on the OS boot screen, which I can't figure out as I can't scroll up on that to see what blew up.
I did notice however, when I was in the conversion wizard, a warning: 'the destination guest os cannot be reconfigured' which I suspect may have something to do with it.
Any ideas where to go from here?
TIA
Dear Experts;
please help me solve the error appear when Convert physical machine to virtual machine "Warning: Unable to read the block at offset '293,563,158,528' on volume 'C:'."
the OS of Source is Windows 2008 R2 stander and the converter version is "5.5.3" build -2183569.
how can solve this problem and make convert successfully.
thanks
I am trying to do a V2V conversion from a 5.5 Host to a temp 5.5 Host. Everytime I convert the machine it gets to 15% and fails with the message "FAILED: A general system error occurred: TaskInfo indicates error but no exception is specified." I've tried reviewing the logs but not really anything sticking out to me. I have attached those to this thread. If someone could help it would be greatly appreciated!
Hi
I'm hoping someone can help me out with this problem.
I'm in the process of migration of our Hyper-V 2012R2 enviroment to an new vSphere 6 installation, and it is going fine.
So far I have used VMware converter to migrate more than 40 VM, without any problems...
But now, I'm having huge problems with some of the VM that I'm trying to migrate.
In total I have so far 4 VM that I can't migrate.
They all have the following in commen:
OS: Server 2008 R2
Language: Danish
Roles: Remote Desktop Service
Disk size: 300 - 700GB
The migrate seems to starts fine, and are running for an couple of hours, until I get to 91%.
Then it stops, and comes with the following error: FAILED: A general system error occurred:
An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host
After the migration have stop, the VM are not working properly for me. I can't start any programs on the VM, and not even reboot it.
I have to power it off, and on again, to have it back online.
The OS have been updated with all the Windows patches, that I can install. I have run checkdisk, and done some cleanup of the discs.
Can anyone help me with this problem, so that I can continue to migrate my VM to VMware.
In the 40 VM that I have migrated so far, are alots of the same VM types as these 3, and there was no problems with these.
Thanks
Allan R. Larsen
On a Windows 2000 SP4 server, I am running VMWare Converter 3.0.3 and select the "Physical machine" as the source. VMWare scans the disk and gives "Unable to determine Guest Operating System" and refuses to go further.
What is VMWare Converter looking at to determine the target OS? If I knew this I could look for permissions issues. Are there any workarounds for this condition?
Hi,
When i am trying to P2V a linux machine with VMware convertor i get "Unable to fine boot loader or boot loader configuration file"
Need help!!!
Michel v
Hi,
We need to migrate windows 2008 R2(64 bit) to vmware environment ,source VM is located in Xenserver.
While converting the process its shows as "Unable to obtain hardware information for the selected machine".I herewith attached diagnostic log for reference.
Kindly check and let me know what i will do for further proceed.
Version Details are given below
1.Vmware standalone conerter version is 6.0
2.VMware standard Edition 5.5 (Target Host)
3.Xenserver version 6.0.2 (Source Host)
Note : Previously i have converted MS Exchange server without any issues in same environment.
It doesn't exist on the VMware site anymore!! Can anyone help? I'm desperate for a copy. I've tried older versions also but there is now download link anymore. Has the product been removed?
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, reconfiguration is not possible.
I'm using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 4.0.1
Anyone run into to this problem and find a solution?
Attached is the Log file.
Summary:
I am trying to migrate two VMware virtual machines from Linux VMware server 2.01 to a VMware infrastructure install running VMWare ESXi 5.1.0. When I try and use the Standalone converter to convert the VMware virtual machine to 5.1 I get the error "Unable to Obtain Hardware information for the selected machine". I have followed the various suggestions on how to deal with this issue and am still Unable to import the machines.
More info:
I have a Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit) server and a Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (32-bit) server VMWARE virtual Machine image I am trying to migrate.
To do this I shut the machines down and copied the entire machine folder from the Linux server to a Windows 2008 R2 enterprise machine.
I have then run the VMWARE standalone converter (by right clicking on it and running as administrator)
I have gone into "convert machine" and selected "VMware Workstation or other VMware virtual machine"
I have gone and selected the vmx file from the machine I wish to import
Upon selecting "View Source Details" and or "next" I get that error: "Unable to Obtain Hardware information for the selected machine"
I COULD run the Stand Alone importer on the machines however I would rather use the offline images. The import process changes all the hardware and the change in hardware means reapplying the windows license keys. Which means "what else is going on in the important software we use if windows is now thinking the hardware has changed THAT much?"
Hi
I am trying to do a P2V on a Physical Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 machine using Vcentre Converter Standalone.
Every time it fails at 1% with the following error, 'unable to create a VSS snapshot of the source volume(s). Error code:2147754773'.
Does anybody have a workaround for this issue.
Hello all,
Today I have a bad issue.
We are doing a P2V of a windows 2008R2 SQL server to put it on a ESX 6.0 U1.
I had several issues when I began the virtualization. First issue was that the convertion was failing at 6% with the error : FAILED: A general system error occured: Operation was canceled.
Looking on the jobs logs I saw that line :
error vmware-converter-server[14096] [Originator@6876 sub=Ufa.HTTPService] Failed to read request; stream: <io_obj p:0x04f11df4, h:-1, <pipe '\\.\pipe\vmware-converter-server-soap'>, <pipe '\\.\pipe\vmware-converter-server-soap'>>, error: class Vmacore::TimeoutException(Operation timed out)
I saw a KB that was saying that the destination virtual machine is out of memory and that I have to increase it. So that's what I did.
But now the job came to 30% but had the failure with the message "FAILED: A general system error occured: Operation was canceled".
When I look into the logs I see that message:
info vmware-converter-server[24876] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [task,379] [task-23] -- ERROR -- Convert: vmodl.fault.SystemError
--> (vmodl.fault.SystemError) {
--> faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null,
--> reason = "Operation was canceled",
The thing that is very weird is that when the job beguis to fail the physical becomes unaccessible. We loose the ping, the network eveything! I have to reboot the physical the machine to be able to ping the machine again.
And on the physical server I see no logs about what just happened.
I'll appreciate your help.
Thank you.
I’m still expanding my VMware skills so I’m not sure how to do this or if it can be done.
The scenario: No VMware products on site (or in network).
Need: Want to do a P2V on a Linux webserver and send/relocate to a datacenter
Problem: What tool(s) to use. The current VMware vCenter Converter Standalone wants details for the destination server
Any other free VMware product (or third party) that will convert a physical box and create vmdk or ova file that can be shipped/mailed to the datacenter?
Thanks in advance
Hi,
i am new in VMWare and i want to evaluate ESXi 6 to virtualize Windows and Linux Servers. At the moment we use Xen 4.4 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. NOT XEN SERVER FROM CITRIX.
Now i installed ESXi 6 on a SUN FIRE 4140 which is running if you add ignoreHeadless=True on boot. Later on you can set this via Kernel permanently.
But thats not the Problem
I downloaded VMWare Converter Standalone and converted a Windows XEN VM to ESXI without problems. All works fine Thats pretty nice.
When i use this converter for a Linux XEN VM it is not working.
I see that it boots into grub, what is realy nice because a XEN Linux VM has no grub. So it seems like the converter is installing a grub and a non XEN Kernel. Seems so, i dont realy know for sure. But when i try to start the converted VM grub is stopping because root device sda1 is not found.
Can someone pls guide me to the prozess to convert a XEN Linux VM to ESXi 6 ?
Error message: ALERT: /dev/sda1 does not exist.
But when i boot the VM with knoppix and look with gparted it is definetly a /dev/sda1 !!!
greetz, max
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
I'm stuck with the issue i am trying to convert Centos Physical machine to VM please see this errors.
FAILED: An error occurred during the conversion: '/usr/lib/vmware-converter/copyFileSystem.sh: line 114:
2241 Done echo "$PASSWORD" 2242 | $SSHCLIENT_CMD $USERNAME@$SRCHOST -p $SRCPORT "$TAR_CMD" 2243 Killed | $UNTAR_CMD /usr/lib/vmware-converter/bin/ssh -z -F /usr/lib/vmware-converter/ssh.conf root@192.168.0.17 -p 22 " tar --one--file-system --sparse -C /home -cf - ." | /bin/tar_1.28 --numeric-owner --delay-directory-restore -C /mnt/p2v-src-root/home -y -xf - (return code 137)'
Please help me for this.
Hello,
I am trying to migrate my Virtual machine from Esx 4.1 to Esx 5.5. This is completely on new vCenter. However, when i trying to migrate using VM Ware vCenter Converter Standalone, i am getting error "A File I/O error occurred while Accessing." This error shows when i click "finish" on the summary. Attached the diagnose file. Any expert, please advise.
Greetings,
I’m attempting to use VMware Converter Stand Alone 6.0 to clone my Windows 7 SP1 image running native on a standard PC (not a laptop).
I want to copy the W7 image to my MacBook Pro running Fusion 7.0
When I launch the VMware Converter program on the W7 machine I get a message about ‘Permission is Denied” and can’t do anything else.
I have given the program all the security I can, “Full Control” and still nogo. The user running the program has full Administrative Control.
I have no idea what to do next to resolve this issue. Can you help?
Thanks
Hello,
I am experiencing a problem with VMWare Converter. When trying to start the job, I get an error saying "A File I/O Error Occurred while accessing ". ". I am running it locally on the source server as a local admin.
Please advise.
Tim
