Converter hangs at "Retrieving source machine information"; high CPU usage
Hi Community, since the last infrastructure update to 5.5 (latest available) the Converter is not working anymore. When starting a conversion it hangs in "Retrieving source machine information" and CPU...
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Ok, after restarting both services and created a new conversion task it still hangs on "retrieving source machine information". And now the "System" task is eating up excactly 50% CPU. Having two...
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Can it be some sort of "file locking" problem? Must be something low-level windows related? Have tried the conversion on different OS, virtual and physical hardware. Same problem for "Local install"...
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A conversion task is running normal when selecting a different source VM. Must be specific to that VM. Details of source VM:Power state: offlineCompatibility: ESXi 5.5 and later (VM version 10)Guest...
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Which OS? Converter 5.x supports XP+
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Thanks for your reply. That is the issue, OS is Windows NT 4.0. It is still possible to download the vmdk and vmx from datastore and start that VM locally in Player.
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Yes, you can run it but the conversion will be a problem...
View ArticleConverter fails on 91% with return code 2
Hi!Converter Standalone 5.5. Trying to convert SLES 11, but on 91% (tried twice) it stops with "FAILED: An error occurred during the conversion". Error message line is long and includes some files...
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Could you provide log bundle? Seems something wrong happens with tar transfer of file system.
View ArticleSlow VM activity after Centos5 P2V
Hi, After P2V conversion of Centos 5.0, VM activities like Power On, Edit configuration, Power Off etc... takes longer time to complete. The conversion was done using vmware converter 5.01. But the VM...
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Do you install vmtools? This could be the issue.HTH
View ArticleRe: Converter fails on 91% with return code 2
Hi and thanks!My fault. I selected for converting to keep minimal disk consumption offered, but … it wasn't enough to complete conversion. As soon I added a bit more disk space for partition … it did...
View ArticleVMWare vCenter Converter Standalone 5.1 - Unable to reconfigure the...
I have installed the above on a windows XP machine. Write the vmx files to a NAS unit. It gets to 98% and then fails. Looking through other discussions on the site, I tried just configuring the VM that...
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You definitely need to reconfigure your VM in order to boot. Could you upload log bundle to check the exact error?
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Is this the VMware.log in the VM directory? Or are there logs with the converter on the physical machine?
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In Converter UI select failed task and from context menu invoke 'Generate log bundle' then upload here.
View ArticleError using Converter 5.5
I am using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.5. I am trying to convert 2003 Server and getting the following error: Failed: A general system error occurred: Platform-specific error 1. I already...
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What is the size of your hard disk ? Maybe you're getting this problem: The conversion job might fail if the disk size of the target virtual machine is less than but near 2TBThe conversion job might...
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I do have a drive which reports 1.99 TB but I thought the issue with 2TB limit were addressed in version 5.5. I can try to see if I can free up some space to decrease drive size and see if that works.
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I have generated the logs - is there any thing in particular that I should be looking for?Also does it generate the logs for a particular task or all of the tasks because there are a lot of logs that...
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