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Questions tagged [vmware-converter]

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Converting a Windows 2000 Physical Machine to a Virtual Machine

What's the best way to create a virtual machine from an old Windows 2000 machine? I found VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 4.0.1 which is the last version to support Windows 2000. Are there any recommended alternatives? Are there any pitfalls I…
Adi Shavit
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VMware Converter FAILED: A specified parameter was not correct. info.owner

I'm trying to convert a 32-bit Windows XP system to a VMWare VM remotely from a Windows 7 Machine. When I do I get the error: A specified parameter was not correct. info.owner Source System Information Source type: Powered-on machine Name or IP…
leeand00
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VMware Converter - virtualizing XP partition: Which Sysprep, SP2 or SP3, or none at all?

I'm using VMWare converter to virtualize an existing Windows XP Pro SP3 partition to run in Windows 7. At the end of the Converter process, it warns "Unable to locate the required Sysprep files...". I went looking for these and found the VMWare KB…
tim11g
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Error while VMware Converter for creating virtual machine for Vmplayer

I'm using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone version=4.0.1, build=build-161434 to hot clone the linux partition on my laptop. It has a partition with Windows Xp pro and another with Opensuse 11.0. Everytime I try to do this, VMware vCenter…
iceman
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VMWare Converter FAILED: Unable to find the system volume

I'm trying to convert a physical Windows XP Professional computer into a VM using VMWare vCenter Converter Standalone 5.0.1. When the process completed, I had the following output: Conversion status: Type: Convert physical machine to virtual machine…
leeand00
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VMware Converter: "FAILED: Unable to find the system volume, reconfiguration is not possible."

VMware converter keeps barfing with this error (after hours of processing) while trying to convert the current XP system into a VM. Anybody knows what might be going on?
cfischer
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VMWare Converter P2V into VirtualBox getting VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED

When using VirtualBox 5.0.4 on Ubuntu Server 14.04, I get VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED when trying to import a VMDK which was created using VMWare vCenter Converter Standalone Client v6.0.0, as a P2V from a local machine running Windows Server 2012 R2…
ericosg
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Why I can't see "thin" option in VMWare vCenter Converter Standalone?

The help and many web pages shows me screenshots of VM conversion process. But I can't see disk resize options when run it. VM's power is down. No snapshots. VM compat is Workstation 9.0 virtual machine. Disk now contains 40G allocated + 40G…
guai
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convert .img to .vmdk using VBoxmanage

Can Someone tell me how to convert .img to .vmdk using VBoxManage? And also how to configure files .vmx etc which are needed to test this converted image on virtualbox? Thanks in advance.
Pratt G
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Moving windows-2003 hdd into virtual machine - with HDD shrink

Before you vote to close as exact duplicate, please read the full question. I was already read: Can I make a virtual machine out of a Windows XP physical machine? Disk2vhd,convert my PC to Hyper-V Virtual Machine Creating a Windows Virtual PC image…
clt60
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Having trouble creating VMWare image from physical machine - memory being restricted to 880MB

I have an old laptop I'm trying to create a VM image from. I'm using the latest version of the VMware Converter app. The machine is an Intel Core Duo with 1GB of RAM running WinXP Pro. When I get to the "View/Edit Options" step in VMWare Converter…
Herms
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how to use vmware converter

how do I use vmware converter? I've tried to search google but I can't find any tutorial on how to use it. I just wish to convert my xp installation to a vmware file so that I could use it on vm ware player
Wern Ancheta
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VMWare Converter recommendations

I have two Ghost 14 backups of my machine. One for the machine fully configured with apps after and XP install and one of the last update before i re-imaged it (it's XP, I re-image about once every six months). I recently wanted to try simply using…
Tank Szuba
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Synchronize a vmware guest OS with a host OS

I hot-cloned a Windows Xp machine on Vmware using VMware-converter-4.0.1-161434. Now I want to sync the Windows Xp machine partition on the machine with the vmware created guest OS . Are any tools available ?
iceman
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VMware Converter for creating virtual machine for Vmplayer

VMware Converter is free and converts a running machine to a VMware virtual machine. The machine can be your local machine or a remote machine on the network . however, The VMware Converter only allows creation of vmware infrastructure virtual…
iceman
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