VMware Converter provides an easy-to-use, scalable solution for migrations of machines, both physical to virtual and virtual to virtual. Optimized for mass migration, VMware Converter is equally effective for single-machine conversions. With its comprehensive and comprehensible wizards and task manager, VMware Converter converts virtual machines faster, with fewer manual steps required, and fewer source hardware limitations than other methods.
With its ability to perform hot cloning, VMware Converter can convert a virtual machine with no downtime on the source physical machine. It has the following enhancements:. Version 3. It contains bug fixes described in Resolved Issues and a known issue described in Known Issues. It contains bug fixes described in Resolved Issues, and also incorporates the following new features:. Converter supports restoring Consolidated Backup images of any guest operating system type. These limitations include:.
VMware Converter provides an experimental command line interface for migrations VMware provides p2vTool as a tool for migrating physical and virtual source machines with a command line interface CLI.
Support for this CLI is Experimental. You need an Enterprise license to use p2vTool to migrate machines. The one exception is restoring a VMware Consolidated Backup image; in this case p2vTool can execute the query, verify, import, and postprocess options without needing a license if it detects that the source is a VCB image. In moving from P2V Assistant to VMware Converter, you see more options and abilities in migrating physical machines, along with the new ability to migrate virtual machines.
In moving from Virtual Machine Importer to VMware Converter, you see more options and abilities in migrating virtual machines, along with the new ability to convert physical machines. The Converter installer uninstalls previously installed versions of Converter such as 3. All target operating systems should have the latest patches available from Microsoft as of the release of this product.
Select Workstation 4. After the import is complete, use vmkfstools on the target ESX machine to import the resulting Workstation 4. Only Workstation 5.
Support for the following guest operating systems is Experimental. VMware Converter 3 can clone source images containing these operating systems, but the destination virtual machine may or may not work without additional configuration after import. In particular, if the source image contains unsupported hardware, you might need to modify the configuration of the destination virtual machine before using it:.
New Scheduled tasks are not performed after physical to virtual hot cloning of Windows systems After performing a physical to virtual conversion, the account context of scheduled tasks is not preserved when the system is rebooted and the task associated with a specific user account is started at logon. Workaround: In Converter 3. This conversion scenario is not supported. New When you resize disks to 'Min size' in the Converter wizard, the resulting new disk size is slightly larger If you hot clone a physical source machine and specify Min size for the source data, the actual disk size created is approximately 10 percent larger than the displayed minimum size.
Workaround: Manually configure the static IP settings. New Task fails for remote Windows source machine when you navigate back and forth in the Conversion wizard When all of the following circumstances exist, the physical source machine does not reboot:. New Source virtual machine networks are not reflected in the default networks of the OVF package When you create an OVF virtual appliance, the networks in the source virtual machine are not reflected in the default networks of the OVF package.
Instead, Converter includes one default network, VMNetwork. You can edit the Network section on the virtual appliance Details page to add more networks if required. FAT file systems do not support files greater than 2GB. New System Restore checkpoints are not removed in target virtual machine When performing block-level, volume-based cloning of a VMware virtual machine ESX Server or Workstation , regardless of whether you selected the Remove all System Restore checkpoints option in the Conversion wizard, these checkpoints are not removed in the target virtual machine.
Workaround: In the source virtual machine, grant everyone full control of the System Volume Information folder:. New Non-ASCII virtual machine names during cold clone cause Converter to quit with an error message During cold cloning, if you use non-ASCII characters for target virtual machine names, although it appears that the import is progressing, Converter issues an error message and quits.
New The 'Create a separate disk for each volume' option is not recommended for multi-boot systems The Create a separate disk for each volume option on the Source Data page of the Conversion wizard does not support multi-boot systems. If you clone a physical or virtual machine that has a multi-boot configuration, every system volume except for the recognized system volume is placed on a new disk. This prevents the target virtual machine from booting into any of the additional system volumes.
Workaround: Deselect additional system volumes so they are not cloned in the target virtual machine. New OVA file is overwritten if an. Open the services console services. After the service is started, run VMware Converter and it should connect. Unable to communicate to the agent. The network traffic is probably blocked by firewalls that are on the Converter machine, the Windows target machine or in between.
Make sure the firewalls are disabled or port is allowed to pass through. This happens due to some misconfiguration of drivers in the registry.
Share this: Twitter Facebook. Like this: Like Loading Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Email required Address never made public. Let it install VMware Tools, select "Reconfigure destination virtual machine" and do NOT select "Configure guest preferences for the virtual machine" If that does not solve your problem, read this thread.
At the boot prompt of Knoppix, just press enter to boot into the graphical interface. Type: fdisk -l This will list all disks in your VM. Identify your operating system hard disk by capacity if possible.
If that is not your desired partition, skip to step 10 then try mounting another partition. VMware requires that you register to be able to download, but their servers are slow at least in my experience. Windows: VMware-converter Do install VMware tools.
Do NOT select "configure guest preferences for the virtual machine" With that, you should be set to convert that machine. After the conversion is complete, the VM will start, install VMware tools, then restart. After it comes up you should apply the proper network settings then shutdown and enable the NIC to connect at power on. You must boot into a LiveCD and replace the file in the location mentioned above.
SYS to the target machine before converting. Open the services console services. After the service is started, run VMware Converter and it should connect. Unable to communicate to the agent.
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