StarWind V2V Converter is a free download tool that allows the conversion and cloning of VMs from one format to another and is utilized when migration or hypervisor switch is required. VMware Converter standalone has Centralized management console allows you to queue up and monitor many simultaneous conversions, both local and remote, such as in headquarters and branch offices.
VMware Converter provides hot cloning capability which makes conversions non-disruptive, with no source server downtime or reboot. It helps us to perform reliable conversion by making use of Quiescing and snapshot of the guest operating system on the source machine before migrating the data. With WinImage in place, you can recreate the disk image on the hard drive or other media, view its content, extract image-based files, add new files and directories, change the format, and defragment the image.
WinImage is shareware. You may evaluate it for a period of 30 days. After 30 days, you need to register it if you intend to continue using WinImage. I Will talk about the detailed procedure to convert disk formats using these Free tools in upcoming tools.
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Converter Standalone supports source and destination disk drives with B e and n disk sector size only. Conversion of a powered on Windows machine to an SMB share fails with the following error message: Unable to obtain the lock on virtual disks. When converting Windows 10 or Windows Server source machine with incremental sync in progress, if the machine reboots in between incremental steps, the conversion fails.
When converting hosted virtual machines with unpartitioned disks, you might not be able to obtain hardware information about the source. In such case, the following error messages might appear in the worker log:. If Converter Standalone is installed in a client-server mode and you have connected by using a username, which is the same as the computer name, submitting a job might fail with The specified parameter was not correct:'info.
Converter Standalone installation fails when the selected installation folder name contains non-ASCII characters Converter Standalone installation fails if the installation folder name contains non-ASCII characters and the OS locale is different from the locale of the characters.
If there are characters from two different locales mixed in the folder name, the installation fails because there is always a character with different locale than the OS locale. If the name of the Converter Standalone installation directory contains non-ASCII characters, you might experience conversion and configuration problems If the name of the Converter Standalone installation directory contains non-ASCII characters, the following issues might occur:. You must restart machines that run bit Windows Vista or later before reinstalling Converter Standalone If you uninstall Converter Standalone from a bit Windows Vista, Windows Server , or Windows 7 machine and do not restart it, a subsequent Converter Standalone installation might fail with the following error message: Error Could not install service Vstor2 MntApi 1.
Please reboot and try to install again. The error is displayed because limited user accounts do not have the required write permissions. After you install Converter Standalone on a computer without internet connection, Converter Standalone services fail to start.
The following message is displayed: Error The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion. This issue occurs because the DNS server is not able to resolve host names online and the file integrity check exceeds the default timeout of 30 seconds due to failed access to public certificate authority stores. Restart the system for the changes to take effect. See KB Disk-based cloning of a powered off machine image to a Virtual Volumes datastore destination might fail You might not be able to perform a disk-based cloning of a powered off machine image to a Virtual Volumes datastore destination.
Workaround: Use volume-based cloning, if the option is available. Creation of virtual machine with thick destination disk type of certain size fails on VSAN datastore even if it seems to have enough space If you try to perform disk-based conversion with thick destination disk type of certain size on VSAN datastore, the creation of virtual machine might fail with the following error 'converter.
InsufficientManagedDiskSpace' , even if it seems to have enough space. Workaround: Change the destination disk type to thin. If the source sends a large block of zeroes that must be written it might take a long time for the ESXi to return the acknowledgement.
Thus, the Converter assumes that the operation has timed out and closes the connection, no matter that the ESXi server is still writing to the target disk. A running P2V conversion job fails if you create a new conversion job for the same Windows source machine and use a different port to deploy the Converter Standalone agent If, while running a P2V conversion job, you start creating another conversion job for the same powered on Windows source machine, and specify a port for the connection, Converter Standalone deploys the Converter Standalone agent using the port you specified.
If the connection port is different from the one that is being used for the already running conversion job, both jobs fail. The following error message appears in the Job summary tab for the first conversion job: FAILED: A general system error occurred: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.
Error code: 0x Workaround: None. You cannot copy running conversion or configuration jobs If you open the Copy As New wizard for a running configuration or conversion job when the source is a virtual machine or a backup image and you click Next , the wizard displays the error message Unable to obtain hardware information for the selected machine. Workaround: Wait for the job to complete before selecting Copy as New in its pop-up menu.
Linked Cloning of source images greater than 2 GB to a network share that does not support large files fails Creating linked clones from source images that are larger than 2 GB to a network share that does not support large files for example, to a Linux SMB share fails. Converter Standalone does not split the source files into smaller chunks. If the source is larger than the supported file size on the destination, the conversion tasks fails.
Creating a conversion job to convert a standalone VMware source with a VMDK file greater than 2 GB from a network share that does not support large files, fails If you select a standalone virtual machine source with VMDK file greater than 2 GB residing on a remote network location that does not support large files for example, Linux SMB share , the following error message appears in the Converter wizard on clicking Next or View source details : Unable to obtain hardware information for the selected machine.
Workaround: Map the network shared folder to the machine where Converter Standalone runs, and select the source from there. Converter Standalone cannot detect the power state of VMware Workstation or other VMware hosted source virtual machines if they are located on a read-only network share If the source machine is a Workstation or another VMware hosted source and is located on a network share with read-only permissions, Converter Standalone cannot detect if the source is powered on or suspended.
This might lead to data inconsistency on the destination machine if changes are made to the powered on source virtual machine during conversion. Converting source volumes with unrecognized file systems might prevent the destination virtual machines from starting While you are setting up a volume-based cloning task in one of the Converter Standalone wizards, the volume name might be missing in some rows of the Source Volumes tab.
This means that Converter Standalone does not recognize the file system on those volumes. The destination virtual machine that is created as a result of such a conversion task might fail to start up. Nevertheless, Converter Standalone copies the source volume data to the destination using block-level copying. Workaround: Configure the destination virtual machine after the conversion. Converting standalone VMware sources with a VMDK file greater than 2 GB to a hosted destination that resides on a network share that does not support large files, fails If you select a standalone virtual machine source with VMDK file greater than 2 GB and try to convert it to hosted destination residing on a remote network location that does not support large files for example, Linux SMB or NFS share , the conversion job might fail with one of following error messages:.
Converter only checks the first IDE disk in such configurations. If the hardware configuration of the source machine is modified while the Conversion wizard is open, you need to restart the conversion wizard if you want to view correct source details Source machine details are retrieved per wizard session, as this is a time-consuming process.
If some changes occur on the source machine such as adding memory or hard drives after this information is retrieved, the Conversion wizard does not show information about the changes.
Workaround: Restart the conversion wizard. Cloning a source that contains file system errors might result in a damaged virtual machine See Cloning a source that contains file system errors may result in a damaged copy KB The Reconfigure Virtual Machine wizard does not display correctly the vDS port group name When you reconfigure a virtual machine that uses dvSwitch and you navigate to the Network interface settings pane, the Network name text box does not display the name of the dvSwitch after the port group name.
Only port group is displayed instead. The reported network transfer rate might not be correct The reported network transfer rate might be higher than the actual one because of the inherent compression used by the network protocol. This does not affect the network throttling. Multiboot configurations are not supported for conversion Converter does not recognize proper boot and system volumes in multiboot source machines due to the multiple choices and the reconfiguration of the virtual machine might fail.
Workaround: Remove the multiboot configuration and leave only one to be converted. Workaround 2: Convert the machine without reconfiguring it and without shrinking the ReFS volume and then reconfigure the virtual machine by using a Converter Standalone instance that is installed on a Windows version earlier than Windows Server After a successful conversion of a powered-on Windows source machine, one or more volumes might be missing from the destination machine.
This issue occurs if there are raw volumes on the source Windows machine because the Converter Standalone might not be able to detect them and might skip them during the query and the conversion. After the conversion of a Windows machine that uses LDM, the drive letters of dynamic volumes from the source machine might not match the drive letters of the corresponding volumes on the destination machine. Workaround: You can assign drive letters to volumes manually.
If the letter you wish to assign to a volume is already in use by another device, you can make it available either by assigning a different drive letter to this device or by removing the drive letter.
When you attempt to convert a remote Windows machine with Windows Vista or later by deploying and using the Converter Agent, the installation of the agent results in 'Permission denied' or 'Unable to perform operation' errors, or if the Agent is installed on the remote machine, the machine refuses to accept the administrator account.
This is the result of the Remote Connection UAC which does not allow administrators to perform administrative tasks when connected remotely. When customizing a Windows 10 or Windows Server machine, sysprep started by the customization process might fail with the following error 'Windows installation encountered an unexpected error.
Error code: 0xC' , making the target VM unusable. Workaround: Do not apply customization on the target VM. Do the operations manually in the VM after the conversion. The P2V conversion of a Windows Vista source machine with the Min size option selected for some volumes fails with error 'There is not enough space on the disk. Workaround: On the source machine, run the following command 'vssadmin list shadowstorage' and check the text of the message.
If it says 'Allocated Shadow Copy Storage space: MB' or some other value for allocated space on the problematic volume, it means that there are hidden shadow copy files placed in the volume. Increase the size of the destination volume with the required amount for the hidden files.
Customization is not applied on Windows source machines running Microsoft Windows 8, Windows 8. There is a c:sysprep folder, and the c:windowssystem32syspreppanthersetuperr. Photo are used as an example and might be different in the c:windowssystem32syspreppanthersetuperr.
This is a result of multiple users logging in to the machine and installing or updating the Metro Apps. Workaround: For the only known workaround see the Microsoft knowledge base article Sysprep fails after you remove or update Windows Store apps that include built-in Windows images.
Apply the workaround on the source machine and repeat the conversion. The workaround does not always work on the destination machine and can cause mismatch in sysprep. After applying workaround on the destination machine, you must invoke the following command: c:windowssystem32sysprepsysprep. Conversion job with no volume selected for shrinking fails with the following error message: 'An error occurred during the conversion: 'Block level cloning does not support shrinking volumes' Converting a Windows source that has an LDM volume that is larger than 2 TB and the first disk of the volume is an MBR disk fails with the following error message: 'An error occurred during the conversion: 'Block level cloning does not support shrinking volumes'.
Workaround: Convert the LDM volume at file level. Trigger the file-level cloning by shrinking volume size. Unsupported guest operating systems are labeled Other and fail to assign correct values for disk and network controllers If you convert a virtual machine that is running on a Windows 8, Windows 8. By going with the "Powered on" mode, you can choose between remote Windows machine and remote Linux machine, and type in the credentials in order to log in.
Of course, you are also required to input the login information and even pick the virtual machine file in the case of the second option. To complete the process, you will have to pick the destination system and a few other options.
The process ends with you being provided with a full summary view of all the changes and, as expected, configuring a machine can be dealt with just as easily and in a similar fashion. Taking everything into account, VMware Converter Standalone is a relatively intuitive application that has the potential to make the lives of system administrators and developers alike a bit better by providing them with a straightforward, wizard-powered solution to automate the creation of VMware virtual machines from physical ones.
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