Re: P2V of Centos Server fails with key can't be retrieved
Most likely you need to edit hosts.allow and hosts.deny on the source server to allow connection both from Converter Server machine *and* from the subnet where destination virtual machine is created.
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i agree that this is a serious issue, i got it working on a freshly installed Win7 system. Let me try to explain what we were trying to do: i took 1 server where I installed VMware converter...
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They are not in the manual. You can try to manually extract in a temp folder and execute vmware-sysinfo binary on the source server. Most likely it will crash (it crashes when it is invoked by...
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I just tried to extract C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware vCenter Converter Standalone\vmware-sysinfo-lin32.tar.gz on the target server.I still have this error: vmware-sysinfo-lin32.sh: line 21: 17176...
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Have almost same problem, but with a windoes server 2003 (not a domain), has Raid 5, gorgot to put sysprep files but got that done. After process initiates unknown error message appears. Tried...
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Not likely the same problem, because as far as I can tell you are converting a Windows server, but this thread is about a RedHat Linux conversion.
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What are guest OSes when the Converter fails, on which OS the Converter was installed? There is a presumption that you'll convert only older or same OSes, for example you can not convert V2V, most ot...
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I had the same issue when converting a Version 1 VM to a VCenter V5 VM, but it was caused by disk inconsistencies in the running VM. I shut down the Version 1 VM and told the converter to use the VM...
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Aloha, I have found that I can sometimes do conversion of the same computer or image file several time with different results and they all seem to be with DNS. Now I have no idea of how the conversion...
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Update: After several attempts using DNS (Computer Name); the latest one failed at 33% after 12 hours and 36 minutes of operation. I am currently using the same conversion using the IP address and no...
View ArticleHaving trouble with hot converting RHEL 3.0
I have eight physical hosts to migrate, five are running CentOS 4.5+ and seem to be manageable. The other three are running RHEL 3.0 (no Update level). I tried the RHEL ones first with converter...
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The VM's: Server 2003R2 x32 / Server 2008 SP2 x64 The server with the converter software installed on it and crashed: Server 2003R2 ent x64 / Server 2008R2 std. The conversion of the VM's that did...
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Hi Ivivanov, Thanks for your help. I just looked at the /etc/hosts.allow and the /etc/hosts.deny files on the source server and neither of them contain any entries in them at all. Do I still need to...
View ArticleRe: RedHat P2V Failed at 99% - Grub Issue
Sorry to revive this old thread, but it fits my problem perfectly. At first I was using converter 5.1, and wasn't converting the filesystem to basic (instead of LVM) - I posted a thread about that, no...
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I had the same problem with converter (v5.0.1) - converter reported error described above when configuring the created VM (the previous steps of creating the VM were successful, but reconfiguring the...
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Hello all, I'm dealing with the very same problem. I get the mentioned error even though I can connect through SSH, IPtables firewall is disabled and hosts.allow and hosts.deny are empty. Both...
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Hi Alex,Thanks for your suggestion. When you say to make sure the helper VM can resolve the name of the ESXi host, how do I do this? In my scenario, the helper VM deletes itself as soon as the job...
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Re: P2V of Centos Server fails with key can't be retrieved
Hi all, I deployed a new Windows box and installed Converter 5.0.1 onto it and it's P2V-ing my CentOs server ok so far I noticed that 5.0.1 configures the VM with hardware v7 whereas 5.1.0 configures...
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And like I said - it was directly connected to the ESX5 but with this strange connection problem. After a million of tries - I found a way - first I did conversion this server to esxi4 (no errors....),...
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Hi George, I used 5.1 too. Sure you can pick HW v7 but the problem we were dealing with was a networking problem so, I'm not sure what's happening in your case ... Regards,Alex
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