The windows error 1935 means: "The computer you are signing into is protected by an authentication firewall. The specified account is not allowed to authenticate to the computer."
HTH
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Re: Error 1935 when converting Windows Server 2008 R2
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Re: Converting Physical oracle linux to esxi on 99%
I had pretty much the same problem with some Ubuntu boxes. What happened was that the /boot volume was 100% (or close to 100%) used because the system had multiple kernel versions that used up the space. The fix is to increase the size of /boot during conversion, which is easy to do. Prior to converting the box, you can check the /boot volume utilization with the df -h command (this is for Ubuntu specifically, did't try on other distros). I think the conversion has to add some files to the /boot volume toward the end, so if /boot is already 100% full or close to it, the conversion will fail. (Disclaimer: I'm by no means a Linux expert.)
As you can see below, the source system (left side) shows that its /boot volume is 100% utilized. A similar system (right side) only has its /boot volume 33% utilized. These are Ubuntu 12.04.X LTS boxes.
I increased the /boot volume size to 1 GB from 243 MB in this example.
This is the error I received in Converter before I made the change.
FAILED: An error occurred during the conversion: 'InitrdNativePatcher failed to generate initrd image: /usr/lib/vmware-converter/initrdGenUbuntu.sh failed with return code: 1, and message: * /mnt/p2v-src-root/dev has 3 files gzip: stdout: No space left on device E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 gzip 1 * user script returning code 1 * unmounting /mnt/p2v-src-root/dev /mnt/p2v-src-root/proc and /mnt/p2v-src-root/sys ERROR:
failed running mkinitrd /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-58-generic 3.2.0-58-generic with chroot /mnt/p2v-src-root '
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Re: Alternate solutions
PlateSpin
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Re: Alternate solutions
PlateSpin is good stuff, Quest (Probably Dell now) has a tool that's pretty good, Acronis has a SMB tool.
Just a suggestion, if you can rebuild the system, I would go for that first. I feel like every time I P2V a system, it's not near as clean as building it fresh on a server template optimized for virtual environments.
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Re: FAILED: An error occurred during the conversion: Cannot format volume
That's what I thought, the 2TB was not supported.
I converted a test system over, increasing to 1TB.
After a successful conversion, I edited the VM settings and increased the hard drive to 2TB.
Booted into GParted ISO and modified the partition to 2TB.
Rebooted Windows, chkdsk performed a scan.
Rebooted 2nd time back into Windows.
Verified I have a 2TB drive.
In essence, I didn't even have to increase to 1TB during the conversion, I could have left it as it was and just modified after like I did.
Thank you for your comments and direction.
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Re: FAILED: An error occurred during the conversion: Cannot format volume
You're welcome and don't forget mark answers as correct or helpful.
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Not able to add disk while doing P2V
Hello All,
Good day to all.
Was trying to add a disk of 20 gigs while converting a windows 2003 x86 using standalone convertor 5.5 to an vcenter infrastructure 5.1(tried local install
on the physical server as well as from the vcenter installation), but couldn't. It won't allow me specify the disk size. Is it a limitation or i am missing something here?....thanks.
Best Regards.
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Re: Not able to add disk while doing P2V
Hello
you can't specify disk size in Converter, you can specify only volume size. Adding virtual disks as functionality is here in order to reorder volumes (i.e. move some volumes to a new disk), not to add new volumes.
You can easily add a new virtual disk to your VM after the conversion and then create a new volume from inside the GOS.
Regards,
Plamen
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Re: Not able to add disk while doing P2V
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Re: Problem converting a physical Ubuntu 14.04 server
Your not obliged to send the converted image to a different VMware server. You can place the image locally on your laptop or on a External HDD. Once you have the converted .vmdk file you could open it with VirtualBox on a desktop.
It all depends on your use case
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Re: 98% FAILED: A general system error occurred: Unknown exception. Win Svr 2003 SP2
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Re: 98% FAILED: A general system error occurred: Unknown exception. Win Svr 2003 SP2
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vCenter Converter for Linux PC to VMware Workstation
Hi,
I want to virtualize my Linux PC (installed Centos 6.5) and use with VMWare Workstation 11.
So I installed vCenter Converter on the same PC with VMWare Workstation.
Then I try to convert.
When I fill in the user , IP and pass parameters for source (Linux PC) it connects ang retrieves information. Then it asks me for destination.
However, there is no "destination type" choice. It defaults to Infrastructure Virtual Machine server.
Since I don't have this software (ESX/ESXi or Infrastructure, vCenter-Server) I am stuck.
How can I get the "destination type" option for VMWare Workstation ?
Thanks.
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Re: vCenter Converter for Linux PC to VMware Workstation
Hello,
unfortunately you can't do that. Converter can P2V Linux machines to managed destination only.
As a workaround you might eventually try manual conversion. See this post for a general overview of what that means: Re: Conversion fails with the error:FAILED: An error occurred during the conversion:'root is not found'
Regards,
Plamen
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Linux grubinstaller error
HI
I trying to P2V my first linux machine
It is running on Ubuntu 14.04
When I try to P2V I always get
FAILED: An error occurred during the conversion: 'GrubInstaller::InstallGrub: /usr/lib/vmware-converter/installGrub.sh failed with return code: 127, and message: Installing GRUB1 on (hd0)... /vmware-updateGrub.sh: 52: /vmware-updateGrub.sh: grub: not found Error installing GRUB Command: grub --no-floppy --batch --device-map="/vmware-device.map" root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) Error running vmware-updateGrub.sh through chroot into /mnt/p2v-src-root /usr/lib/vmware-converter/installGrub.sh: line 143: /mnt/p2v-src-root:
Is a directory '
Gunnar H
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Re: Linux grubinstaller error
Hello
Use Converter 6.0; 5.5 does not work with Ubuntu 14
HTH
Plamen
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Re: Linux grubinstaller error
Thanks, i did test it and work well.
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Windows 10 p2v
Hi Guys, I'm totally new to vmware but need to start learning, anyway I want to start practising p2v machines. I have installed vmware converter on a windows 10 machine and was wondering if converter supports doing a p2v for this and will it cause any issues for my Windows 10 machine after I do it, I beleive I would be looking to clone the machine.
Thanks
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Re: Windows 10 p2v
I don't think the latest version of VMware Converter supports Windows 10, it does however support the following Microsoft desktop operating systems: -
- Windows 7
- Windows 8
- Windows 8.1
What is your target system, e.g. ESXi, Workstation?
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Re: Windows 10 p2v
Hi there, at this moment my target system will be whatever I can get free from vmware to test on and if nothing I will just test it on virtualbox, its purely for learning how to do p2v, after that if I could get a cheap pc and use Esxi then that will be the plan further down the line. If theres anything you recommend that I do then that would be great, its really to learn about vmware, p2v, managing them and general admin. I'm going to a new job that uses vmware so I plan on going down the certification path hopefully.
I've just noticed that vmplayer is free so I guess any p2v I maaged to do I can test with that until I manage to get Esxi running on a pc.
Cheers
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