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Re: What has happened to the VMware Standalone Converter download?

January 8, 2016, 9:36 am
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It looks like a bug on the web site. Anyway, once logged in, click the "View my Downloads" link, and select "All Downloads" from the drop-down menu. This will forward you to a site where you can find the downloads link for the Converter in the "All Products" tab.

Alternatively try https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/info/slug/infrastructure_operations_management/vmware_vcenter_converter_standalone/6_0

 

André

 

PS: I just realized that this will bring you back to the broken site. I'll see whether I can report the defect to VMware.

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Re: What has happened to the VMware Standalone Converter download?

January 8, 2016, 10:01 am
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It seems to have reappeared on the website now, I have been able to download it

thanks

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Re: What has happened to the VMware Standalone Converter download?

January 8, 2016, 10:09 am
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Thanks. It's either coincidence, or these guys work really fast. I reported the issue right after my previous post.

 

André

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Re: VMWare Converter 3.0.3 Giving "Unable to determine guest operating system" on Windows 2000 SP4

January 8, 2016, 10:57 am
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a.p., I have been looking for any version of VMWare Converter 4 to download, but VMWare took them all down from the downloads.   That was short sighted of them.   I would like to try it.  Any ideas how I can?

 

Of course I logged in as an Administrative account, but I have never had a problem in the past with any resource not being available to other Administrative users.   I still like your theory.   Can you give an example of this case?

 

What would be most valuable to this situation would be some understanding of *how* VMWare Converter determines the OS and what resources it is examining for this purpose.

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Re: FAILED: Unable to find the system volume, reconfiguration is not possible.

January 9, 2016, 4:04 am
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I tried several things without success .

Finally, even though the configuration failed, I opened the VM and changed the settings for it to use the Windows 8 install CD to boot from .

From there I tried the auto repair, but it did not work .

So, I opened command prompt and did the usual

bootrect /nt60 c: /force

bootsec /fixboot

bootsec /fixmbr

bootsec /rebouldbcd

 

After that finished, the VM booted normally .

 

 

 

 

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Re: What has happened to the VMware Standalone Converter download?

January 11, 2016, 3:58 am
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Thanks to all for replying. I'm now able to download the converter.

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Re: "Unable to Obtain Hardware information for the selected machine"

January 13, 2016, 7:12 am
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For me, i just restart Vmware server and works.

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Vcentre Converter Standalone - unable to create a VSS snapshot of the source volume(s). Error code:2147754773

January 14, 2016, 2:11 pm
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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.

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Re: Vcentre Converter Standalone - unable to create a VSS snapshot of the source volume(s). Error code:2147754773

January 15, 2016, 12:52 am
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P2V issue vconverter 6.0.0

January 20, 2016, 7:57 am
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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.

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Re: P2V issue vconverter 6.0.0

January 20, 2016, 8:16 am
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The most important log for conversion is worker's one, please attach.

In case of remote machine conversion the most important log is agent's one on the source machine i.e. where the Agent is installed.

From your description seems that the network is corrupted during conversion, you can try to throttling the network bandwidth used by Converter (just wild guess).

HTH

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VMware Physical to Virtual Conversion - No VMware products on site

January 20, 2016, 7:25 pm
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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

 

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Guide needed to convert XEN Linux VM to ESXi

January 21, 2016, 10:55 pm
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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.

 

http://robwillis.info/2014/01/dell-cs24-esxi-5-5-install-stuck-relocating-modules-and-starting-up-the-kernel/

 

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

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Re: Guide needed to convert XEN Linux VM to ESXi

January 22, 2016, 3:45 am
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Hello

 

Converter does not support paravirtual Linux sources, neither ones with boot loader other than GRUB. I mean it is not designed to do so (yet). It tweaks the grub config and calls grub-install as part of reconfiguration but does not install a full fledged GRUB on a machine that doesn't have one. The messages may be misleading, which is kind of normal when it encounters something unexpected.

You may try installing grub manually when booting from a live CD; I think Ubuntu install CD had this functionality. However if the kernel is PV and doesn't run in HV environment, you should find some way to replace it.

 

Regards,

Plamen

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Converter v6.1 - Convert selected partitions from physical disk

January 22, 2016, 7:30 pm
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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

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Re: Converter v6.1 - Convert selected partitions from physical disk

January 22, 2016, 11:04 pm
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Hi Garry.

 

You should boot your source VM in Workstation and then in Converter select the Powered-on option on the first page. Then you will be able to (de)select individual volumes. Please let me know if you have any progress.

 

Hope this helps,

Ivan

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Re: Converter v6.1 - Convert selected partitions from physical disk

January 22, 2016, 11:13 pm
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One more thing, if you select the powered-on approach, then you have to select a vCenter/ESX server as a destination. You cannot convert powered-on Linux directly to Workstation, however you can convert it to ESX/vCenter with the disk layout you want and then export the result back to Workstation as powered-off (without modifyiny the disk layout)

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Re: Converter v6.1 - Convert selected partitions from physical disk

January 22, 2016, 11:58 pm
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Re: Converter v6.1 - Convert selected partitions from physical disk

January 24, 2016, 6:29 pm
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ivivanov, Suhas,


Thank you both for your help, but I'm afraid that I've managed to get myself pained into a corner on this...


The solutions you both proposed would work in a normal situation if I had a working VM and wanted to convert it.  The problem is that after some hardware changes on the Win7 host machine the physical drive numbers changed and I had to re-add the VM disk partition references to the VM host... which changed the order (and device IDs) of the hard disks as seen by Linux.  Booting the VM in this situation would have been dangerous to the disks so I wanted to clone the disks into normal virtual volumes so as to have a recovery point if something went south.  In short, I'm looking to both make sure I have a backup of the partitions (and boot setup) and also make an attempt at converting the VM over to use normal file-based VM disks.  I can't afford to boot the VM and risk losing any of the hard disks if the configuration is wrong due to the host hardware/drive changes.


This is compounded by an apparent change in vCenterConverter 6.x because the only options I get for a 'Powered On' machine is 'Remote Linux' and 'Remote Windows'...   I tried booting the troubled VM up using the SystemRescueCD and connecting using the 'Remote Linux' option, but the 'Powered On' option apparently requires an SSH connection into the powered on machine... and while I could probably get SSH running from the rescue CD VMWare tools wouldn't be present/running/installed and I'm guessing that that might be required.


In the end I created two new virtual disks of the appropriate size and added them to the existing VM, booted the VM in system rescue, copied the old partition reference volume's contents to the newly created disks, and, after duplicating the VM directory itself, replaced the partition volume references in the VM copy with the newly created virtual disk references.  This seems to have worked... after a little editing on the vmdk files the only difficulty now is the MBR on the new virtual disks and re-installing grub, all of which is workable, and my original partitions are still untouched in case something dies horribly in the copy and I have to start over.

 

Thanks for your time and expertise on this...  it would have been a lot easier if I could have directly 'converted' the partition volumes directly using vCenter Converter, but that apparently wasn't an option in my case.


Thanks again,

Gary


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Failed convert physical Centos machine to VM

January 25, 2016, 9:36 pm
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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.

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