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  • 1.  Conveter error 1% 5%... 97%

    Posted Apr 25, 2007 10:27 PM

    I've had good luck with P2V Assistant in the past and needed to convert some physicals in the lab today so I thought I'd give Converter a try since we're licensed for it.

    Unfortunately, 1% 5%... 97%, failure every time. Unfortunately my failures take about 30-45 minutes to complete. That's a long time to wait to see if it's going to work or not.

    I tried a few of the workarounds to no avail. I'm using the boot .iso to convert a Citrix box. Right now I can't really taint the Citrix box with extra services which is why I like the boot .iso method.

    Looks like it's back to P2V Assistant until this gets sorted out. Too bad, the new screens looked promising and impressive.

    PS. One thing I don't see in the boot .ISO with Converter which I had the option to configure with the boot .ISO in P2V Assistant is network card speed/duplex. Surely this must exist somewhere?



  • 2.  RE: Conveter error 1% 5%... 97%

    Posted Apr 25, 2007 10:28 PM

    I see configuring speed/duplex isn't an option with the Converter boot .iso

    http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=564490&#564490

    That's REAL POOR[/b] VMware. What are you thinking?



  • 3.  RE: Conveter error 1% 5%... 97%

    Posted Apr 25, 2007 10:42 PM

    Setting the speed/duplex is currently not possible in the Converter Cold Clone Boot CD. This will likely be a feature in a future release.



  • 4.  RE: Conveter error 1% 5%... 97%

    Posted Apr 25, 2007 11:01 PM

    I submitted as a feature request.

    The 97% failure thing needs to be fixed for the most part also. There shouldn't be this many failures. Sounds like the beta was working better for people.

    Thanks,

    Jas



  • 5.  RE: Conveter error 1% 5%... 97%

    Posted Apr 27, 2007 10:47 AM

    Use PE Network Configurator

    http://www.geocities.com/pierremounir/

    Or look at

    http://sanbarrow.com/moa21/converter-launch.zip



  • 6.  RE: Conveter error 1% 5%... 97%

    Posted May 04, 2007 01:36 AM

    Converter 3.0.1 boot ISO is working slightly[/i] better but so far today I was only able to use it to convert 1 out of 4 physical Compaq servers.

    A 2nd box I had to use the Converter 3.0.1 agent software installed inside the Windows OS.

    The other 2 boxes I had to revert to P2V Assistant. This is my ACE in the hole as it has rarely let me down. I'm still liking this product.

    It's embarassing to be at a customer site to showcase/prove virtualization to them and the P2V products fail. Takes some quick tap dancing.



  • 7.  RE: Conveter error 1% 5%... 97%

    Posted May 05, 2007 11:37 AM

    The progress just jumps to 97% and then displays failed.

    export the logs to a shared directory and check em (especially the converter log). I've done quit some conversions and always there is a good reason if it fails.