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vCenter Converter Windows XP problems

May 5, 2020, 9:38 am
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I have XP computers I need to make VMs of.  I try to install the latest vCenter Converter on those machines but they fail near the end.  I see that XP is no longer supported on the notes.  However, I keep reading that it used to work at least so I was looking for an older version to download and can't find one to download.  I'm forced to download a version that doesn't work for the XP computers.

 

Trying to converter it remotely from a windows 10 and it is also failing so that option isn't any good either. 

 

Is there anywhere I can download version 5?

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Re: vCenter Converter Windows XP problems

May 5, 2020, 10:50 am
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Moderator: Thread moved to the Converter Standalone area.

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Can't convert Windows 2008 Server (32bit) ...port 9089. Error details: 'SSL Exception: error:140770FC:SSL

May 5, 2020, 2:46 pm
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Please note: I did another conversion this morning on a Windows 2016 Server - no problems.

 

ESXi 6.7

Converter 6.2

Target VM Windows 2008 Server (32bit)

 

I have seen several posts about how to fix this problem by changing values in xml files that don't exist.

 

I changed the converter-client.xml in both the converter standalone system and the target system.

After changing the useSSL value to false I restarted the service on both boxes.

The port is open

The fire wall is down

The VM is running.

 

In case you want to see the whole message:

 

Unable to establish a secure communication channel between the Converter server and the remote machine at xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx on port 9089. Verify that the remote machine is running, the firewall is turned off, and the Converter agent service is running and listening on port 9089. Error details: 'SSL Exception: error:140770FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol'.

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Re: vCenter Converter Windows XP problems

May 6, 2020, 6:00 am
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There is the only available link of version 6.2 on the VMware official website now. Please read the related release note for version 6.0 and also older same questions in the community, (like P2V Windows XP and so more, please search in Converter Standalone ) I think they will guide you on how to solve this problem with the newer available versions of vCenter Converter.

Good Luck

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Re: P2V Windows XP

May 6, 2020, 7:22 am
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Is it possible to get that VMware-converter-en-6.0.0-2716716.exe anywhere still?  VMWare doesn't allow older versions to be downloaded and not being able to convert an XP is crippling my progress.  The newest 6.2 doesn't work on any XP machines I've tried.

 

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Converter Standalone 6.2.0

May 7, 2020, 11:41 am
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Hello Guys,

 

Hope you are well : )

All-day digging in google but nothing that can help ...

Currently, we are trying to perform live migration on several VMs with Converter Standalone 6.2.0, for the Windows VMs is working good however, we are facing issue with Linux ones mostly RHEL 6 and 7.

After migration, the destination have doesn't have 3 disks only 2, one small with a boot on it, and another one with all partitions.

All Linux VMs have 2,3 or more disk and all of them are part of LVMs, for example:

source VM have:

NAME                    MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
  sr0                      11:0    1 1024M  0 rom
  sdb                       8:16   0   50G  0 disk
  └─sdb1                    8:17   0   50G  0 part
    ├─vgOS-homevol (dm-4) 253:4    0   51G  0 lvm  /home
    └─vgOS-varvol (dm-5)  253:5    0   48G  0 lvm  /var
  sda                       8:0    0   60G  0 disk
  ├─sda1                    8:1    0  200M  0 part /boot
  └─sda2                    8:2    0 59.8G  0 part
    ├─vgOS-swapvol (dm-0) 253:0    0    2G  0 lvm  [SWAP]
    ├─vgOS-rootvol (dm-1) 253:1    0   32G  0 lvm  /
    ├─vgOS-usrvol (dm-2)  253:2    0    6G  0 lvm  /usr
    ├─vgOS-tmpvol (dm-3)  253:3    0    2G  0 lvm  /tmp
    ├─vgOS-homevol (dm-4) 253:4    0   51G  0 lvm  /home
    └─vgOS-varvol (dm-5)  253:5    0   48G  0 lvm  /var
  sdc                       8:32   0   40G  0 disk
  └─sdc1                    8:33   0   40G  0 part
    ├─vgOS-usrvol (dm-2)  253:2    0    6G  0 lvm  /usr
    ├─vgOS-homevol (dm-4) 253:4    0   51G  0 lvm  /home
    └─vgOS-varvol (dm-5)  253:5    0   48G  0 lvm  /var

In the convertor, migration completes without any warning but for the new VM we are getting kernel panic : (

With rescue CD manage to edit the fstab and put the UUID of the VOLs

but nothing change.

Do you have any idea where is the problem?

Thank you for your help.

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Re: Converter Standalone 6.2.0

May 7, 2020, 12:19 pm
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Moderator: Thread moved to the Converter Standalone area.

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Re: SSL Exception when Converter tries to connect to vCenter

May 7, 2020, 5:34 pm
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Re: Unable to query live linux source machine.

May 7, 2020, 11:29 pm
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Could you please attach the worker log?

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vCenter Converter 6.2 Linux not working

May 9, 2020, 8:49 am
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Hello,

 

I am trying to convert my Manjaro Linux install to a VM with vCenter Converter but I get the following error message:

"There is no '/boot' directory mounted on the source machine. It is required to create a bootable virtual machine. Mount the '/boot' directory on the source machine."

There is a /boot folder but it is not its own partition, it's just on the main encrypted partition which is currently decrypted since the system is booted. However the folder /boot/efi is a mounted 300 MB partition which I think is used to decrypt the main disk.

I suspect this is due to the installation being encrypted via luks. I have read in previous posts that software raid is not supported but 6.2 does support it, so I don't know exactly what the problem is... ( https://superuser.com/questions/829466/vcenter-converter-migrate-p2v-without-dedicated-boot-partition )

vCenter Converter is running in a Windows VM on my Proxmox Server, but I don't think that is the problem since it only issues commands to my linux pc. The target for the VM would be an ssd connected to the linux machine but I don't even get that far...

 

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

System Information:

OS: Manjaro Linux x86_64

Kernel: 5.4.31-1-MANJARO

 

Boot Disk:

Disk /dev/nvme1n1: 931.53 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors

Disk model: CT1000P1SSD8                           

Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disklabel type: gpt

Disk identifier: <long disk uuid, not sure if sensitive, but just making sure>

 

Device              Start        End    Sectors  Size Type

/dev/nvme1n1p1       4096     618495     614400  300M EFI System

/dev/nvme1n1p2     618496 1917403613 1916785118  914G Linux filesystem

/dev/nvme1n1p3 1917403614 1953520064   36116451 17.2G Linux filesystem

 

cat /etc/fstab

UUID=7971-DBD2                            /boot/efi      vfat    umask=0077 0 2

/dev/mapper/luks-cb98aa7f-f420-474a-bf11-a8c6c1f6ca9d /              ext4    defaults,noatime 0 1

/dev/mapper/luks-73be0a4e-641f-44cc-8d93-bd243d376ba8 swap           swap    defaults,noatime 0 2

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Re: vCenter Converter 6.2 Linux not working

May 9, 2020, 9:05 am
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Ok, I somehow got it to work by using this workaround: Re: There is no '/boot' directory mounted...but it is mounted

 

I thought I already tried this but apparently I did something wrong the first time.

 

I formatted my USB drive to ext4 and copied the contents of /boot to it.

After that I got the UUID with blkid and added it to fstab.

 

Now /etc/fstab looks like this:

UUID=7971-DBD2                            /boot/efi      vfat    umask=0077 0 2

/dev/mapper/luks-cb98aa7f-f420-474a-bf11-a8c6c1f6ca9d /              ext4    defaults,noatime 0 1

/dev/mapper/luks-73be0a4e-641f-44cc-8d93-bd243d376ba8 swap           swap    defaults,noatime 0 2

UUID=0e0e0247-e88f-4fe9-863f-7d584539743d /boot ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1

 

Sorry for this post, maybe this will help someone who has the same problem...

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VSS Error when trying to convert W2k3 server

May 11, 2020, 7:16 am
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Good day,

 

I am getting the following error when I try to convert a Windows 2003 64bit server.

 

"Unable to create a VSS snapshot of the source volume(s)". Error code:2147942414 (0x8007000E)

 

After the first failure, I rebooted and checked the services for VSS when it came back up and everything was started. I checked the event viewer and nothing there related to this other than the volsnap error "The flush and hold operation for volume C:\ was aborted because of low available system memory." at the time it errored out in Converter.

 

Did a list writers and they were all stable so I tried to convert again and same error. Server is as up to date as it can be (R2 SP2)

 

Env details

ESXi 6.7

Converter 6.1.1 running on physical Windows 2008

Source is physical windows 2003 Standard R2 SP2

C drive is 136GB with 36GB free

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks

 

 

 

 

 

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Vmware converter standalone, v2v xcp-ng to vmware linux vm with acls and xattrs

May 12, 2020, 3:07 am
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Hello,

 

We are converting all our vms from xcp-ng (xenserver) to vmware (esxi). It seems like the conversion uses tar and doesn't preserve acls and xattrs.

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Re: Vmware converter standalone, v2v xcp-ng to vmware linux vm with acls and xattrs

May 12, 2020, 3:15 am
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Re: vmware converter hung at 98% converting rh7.6 v2v

May 13, 2020, 8:50 am
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Hello

 

I was able to to resolve this by using an older version of Vmware converter. I used version 6.1.1.

 

Worked like a charm.

 

Regards

Vishaan

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p2v - unable to connect to the converter helper server

May 14, 2020, 7:03 am
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I'm trying to convert a powered on server running Centos 6.9 to a destination VM in one of our vCenters. I've looked at the VMware Docs on which ports to open and have put firewall rules in place. After over 3 hours and the status still at 1% the task failed with "Error: Unable to connect to the Converter helper server on the destination virtual machine".

 

I am doing the conversion on a Windows hosted VMware Converter Standalone version 6.2 and can successfully ping the helper VM from the Windows box. On the console of the helper VM, there are entries showing it can ping its gateway. The docs say port 443 is used between the Converter Standalone server to the helper virtual machine. Is port 22 needed too? or maybe I'm missing something in the setup.

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Re: p2v - unable to connect to the converter helper server

May 14, 2020, 7:14 am
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Re: p2v - unable to connect to the converter helper server

May 14, 2020, 7:28 am
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If I'm understanding the error correctly, I think it is saying that the Converter server is failing to connect to the converter helper server. From the Knowledge Base article, port 443 is the port used for that connection. Do I need port 22 too?

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Re: p2v - unable to connect to the converter helper server

May 14, 2020, 7:32 am
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yes - in the link i posted before you can read that the helper vm connects via port 22 to the source machine

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Re: Unable to query live linux source machine.

May 15, 2020, 4:50 am
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Please find attached logs ...

 

Please refer logs for date 02/05/2020 after 14:00 oclock

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