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virtual_Vic
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Contributor
‎11-30-2007 11:56 AM

Does VM Converter P2V Vista professional

Hi all,

Does converter P2V vista machines? if not, is there a tool out there that will do it? I know you can use Ghost to create the vmdks and do it that way, but we dont have that in house. Any suggestions will surely be appreciated.

Thanks,

-VMVic

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vmroyale
Immortal
Immortal
‎11-30-2007 01:27 PM

In the Converter 3 docs at - Vista is not listed as a source option.

Ghost (V9 or higher) images are supported, so you may be able to proceed in that fashion. Let me know if it works.

Good Luck!

Brian Atkinson | vExpert | VMTN Moderator | Author of "VCP5-DCV VMware Certified Professional-Data Center Virtualization on vSphere 5.5 Study Guide: VCP-550" | @vmroyale | http://vmroyale.com
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gautam
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Expert
‎11-30-2007 02:14 PM

The latest Converter version 3.0.2, has Vista P2V support

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admin
Immortal
Immortal
‎12-03-2007 11:17 AM

Vista is experimentally supported with Converter 3.0.2. Full support will likely be provided in a future release.

http://www.vmware.com/support/converter/doc/releasenotes_conv302.html

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geneg1
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Contributor
‎12-03-2007 11:45 PM

FYI, I just tried VMWare Converter 3.0.2 with Vista Ultimate 64 bit (a hot image). The import failed repeatedly with a "vsnap does not have admin rights." message in the service log text file. I followed the instructions on various other threads to no avail, and eventually saw the following error in Vista's application event log for the VSS service: The VSS Coordinator Class is not registered. A little Googling suggests that VM Converter's 32-bit VSS requests are bouncing off of Vista's 64 bit VSS service. I'm hoping that this will get resolved soon.

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