Comments on: Physical to Virtual Machine by VMware vCenter Converter

By: CDo

CDo — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:51:17 +0000

link http://virtualization.sysprobs.com/desktop-virtualizationphysical-machine-virtual-machine (“Read here for more information” at step 8)) is not working (Page not found (404)).

By: Syed

Syed — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:01:39 +0000

I am able to create the Virtual image from Physical M/C , But when I am trying to run it through Vmplayer . I am not able to run .While creation the image i choose Vmplayer only.
But while booting the VM Machine through vmplayer . It got crashed. Let me know if anyone have encountered this sisue.

By: How to Move VMware Workstation Virtual Machine to VMware ESXi Server

How to Move VMware Workstation Virtual Machine to VMware ESXi Server — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 05:56:51 +0000

[...] host and ESXi server. In workstation go to File on menu and select Import or Export.See Also,Convert Physical Computer to Virtual by VMware Stand alone converter 4) Select Virtual Appliance in source type.5) Browse the virtual machine’s configuration file VMX [...]

By: Dinesh

Dinesh — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:30:54 +0000

@Gregg,
Earlier also one user reported similar problem on Linux host. I used version 4 on Windows host, but I found this below sentence in VMware converter site for linux users.

*Linux P2V support is available for Standalone version only

I think something is different in Linux version than I showed here.

Try this method, it may help your requirement http://www.petri.co.il/physical-to-virtual-conversion-of-linux-servers-with-vmware-converter-bootcd.htm

By: Gregg

Gregg — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:10:33 +0000

What version of VMware Converter did you use? The ones I have been able to download (3.0.3 and 4.0.1) don’t match your screen captures. I am trying to do a P2V conversion of Linux to run on a Windows environment. Have not been successful either with converter installed on the linux machine (local) or installed on the Windows machine (remote). They fail when entering the destination.

By: Dinesh

Dinesh — Sun, 16 May 2010 07:00:24 +0000

@vess, Check this post http://communities.vmware.com/thread/199512.
It may help you.

By: vess

vess — Fri, 14 May 2010 02:26:53 +0000

I followed the steps and a few minutes after I fired-off the conversion it FAILED
with the following Error Message:

FAILED: Unable to create a VSS snapshot of the source volume(s). Error code:
2147754776 (0×80042318).

Any ideas?

By: Physical to Virtual in VirtualBox - VirtualBox P2V | Virtualization Software Support

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:43:00 +0000

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