Comments on: VMware Converter 3.0 final – first impressions

By: dan

dan — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:16:14 +0000

There was some question as to whether or not the non-beta version would perform the simple task of resizing a virtual disk, and the answer is YES. I just did this successfully on Workstation 5.5. The option is subtle, you have to pull a dropdown menu when it asks which disks you want to convert. The downside is that it deletes all your snapshots (as the author pointed out in his original post).

By: Greg Kelly

Greg Kelly — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:05:52 +0000

Found the upgrade from 3.0 to 3.0.1 helped a lot. Converter very good about checking for space, and allowing more. We’re presently using the unlicensed version, to migrate antique servers that are physically dying, but have old applications that are too intensive (or unknown) to rebuild on a new server. Being unlicensed, have to convert from physical to virtual, then import into the ESX environment. Takes MUCH more time on these old boxes.. 5 hours not unusual…

By: Fred Morrison

Fred Morrison — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:55:23 +0000

Using MS Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1, I installed VMWare Converter 3.0.1 onto the latest Microsoft “virtual appliance” edition of Windows Server 2008 Beta 3.

I then launched the converter, told it I wanted to convert the “physical machine” (I tip I found on another blog), but got the error “Task failed: P2VError UNABLE_TO_DETERMINE_GUEST_OS()”.

This same scenario worked fine with the WIN03_MOSS “virtual appliance” (also orginally designed to work only with Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1), so I suspect VMWare Converter 3.0.1 isn’t capable of converting Windows Server 2008 Beta 3 VM’s to an equivalent VMWare VM.

By: x86 Virtualization

x86 Virtualization — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:29:12 +0000

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