Re: Windows VISTA P2V failing - FAILED: Unable to find the system volume,...
Wild guess: try to convert excluding first (unknown) partition... You can verify your BCD configuration with bcdedit.exe and recover it with 'bootrec.exe /rebuildbcd' in recovery console... but be...
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Hello hopefully somebody can answer this. Our virtual machine is running vmware server ESX 3i 3.5.0 It has 2 hard drives, datastore1 and datastore2. All our virtual servers are stored in datastore2....
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Welcome to the Community, to find out what exactly triggers the reactivation, you may need to ask Microsoft. Anyway, you may want to check whether your backup application restored the VM with a...
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I used the Vmware Infrastructure Client to restore the backup. I did is File -> Virtual Appliance -> Import. I thought using this method will maintain the same MAC address
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Your error is:2015-04-07T11:27:15.038-04:00 [02516 warning 'Default'] [,0] [NFC ERROR] NfcNewAuthdConnectionEx: Failed to connect to peer. Error: Failed to connect to server 10.2.4.41:902Read the...
View ArticleHow to prevent WIndows Activation when restoring ovf in same hardware
Just want to know, on a Vmware ESX 3i 3.5.0, on a hard disk crash scenario, when only the hard disk has been replaced. How do yo do a ovf import (backup) that will not require windows activation.
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Hey POCEH, Thank you. Question, where in the logs did you locate that error?
View ArticleRe: Cannot P2V a larger then 2TB physical machine
Hi Tony I haven't seen such a thing. Can you pls upload the log bundle of the failed task or send it to me in a private message?Do I understand correctly that the large volume is a simple volume at the...
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Unfortunately exporting/importing OVFs doesn't have an option (at least I'm not aware of it) to maintain such settings. What you may do is - when exporting the VM as an OVF - also download the VM's...
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Please see my reply to your previous question (Re: Windows Activation still required even if restoring virtual server on same hardware) André
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Thanks for the info, but how do you download the vmx and vmxf files. How can you access them? Thanks
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You can up- and download files using the Datastore Browser. To access it select the ESXi host in the VI client's inventory, go to the Configuration tab, and right click the appropriate datastore. From...
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Thank you very much for the help, I just want to make sure of the step when you say to upload the vmx and vmxf file, is it correct that I should delete the vmx and vmxf file from the restored OVF...
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when you say to upload the vmx and vmxf file, is it correct that I should delete the vmx and vmxf file from the restored OVF directory before uploading? Uploading the files will overwrite existing...
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Re: P2V error "FAILED: An error occurred while opening a virtual disk. Verify...
In vmware-converter-worker-2.log file
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Forgot about this thread. Answering my own question here. A 3rd party backup application was automatically trying to backup the newly created VM (& every VM in the environment) before it had...
View ArticleRe: Windows VISTA P2V failing - FAILED: Unable to find the system volume,...
Hello, I restarted everything from scratch.... same bad result.I converted the powered-local on machine with selected drives C: and D:, hidden volume NOT selected (see attached)I got FAILED at 98%...
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Please upload latest log bundle.
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LOG file attached Thanks
View ArticleRe: Windows VISTA P2V failing - FAILED: Unable to find the system volume,...
Run regedit and go to HKLM\BCD00000000\Objects\{9dea862c-5cdd-4e70-acc1-f32b344d4795}\Elements\24000001 if the key isn't exist - create it.Then look at value names 'Element' with type REG_MULTI_SZ - it...
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