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  • 1.  Standalone converter failed to connect to a local server

    Posted Jun 16, 2009 11:05 AM

    Hi all,

    I have installed VMware vCenter Convert Standalone 4.0.1 onto a Windows XP box. My aim is to convert this into a VM on the same machine before re-configuring the machine as a multi-boot with a Linux distro.

    I have various Ghost image backups, but I'd really like to be able to run the VM from within Linux rather than having to reboot.

    When I try to start VM Converter Standaslon 4.0.1 I get an error message stating "Failed to impersonate current user to the converter server"

    I then get a form to input details:

    IP Address / Name: (I can only choose localhost)

    User name & Password

    but whatever connection details I input I get the following errorr

    I checked the services, and VMware vCenter Converter Server is started

    This still fails even when VMware vCentre Converter Agent is also started.

    Would appreciate any help on this stumble at the first hurdle.

    Thanks in advance,

    Rém



  • 2.  RE: Standalone converter failed to connect to a local server

    Posted Jun 17, 2009 09:39 AM

    Hi.

    I have the same problem on WXP, SP3 and last update. Server and agent are running but they don't listen on the ports 443 and 9089.

    There is everything fine on WS2003 .



  • 3.  RE: Standalone converter failed to connect to a local server

    Posted Feb 02, 2012 03:10 PM

    Hi geeks :smileyhappy:

    In case you have this error in XP OS - then you should use Administrator account!!

    With this Admin account evrything works ok!



  • 4.  RE: Standalone converter failed to connect to a local server

    Posted Jan 08, 2014 05:20 AM

    Thanks for sharing the info...



  • 5.  RE: Standalone converter failed to connect to a local server

    Posted Jun 19, 2009 03:15 PM

    Solved:

    I found an FAQ which basically recommended re-installing if anything went wrong.

    but just to be sure I created a new Admin account & password

    Uninstalled Converter and re-installed it - worked like a charm.

    Also managed to clone my local machine, but it insisted on cloning both physical drives (not what I wanted, since the second disk has 150GB)

    still, it's a positive start.



  • 6.  RE: Standalone converter failed to connect to a local server

    Posted Jan 06, 2012 02:34 PM

    Have got the same issue. Win7 x64 Sp1 Prof, tried to install, uninstall and reinstall again vCenter Converter 5.0.0-470252 - "Failed to impersonate blah-blah-blah" upon client start.



  • 7.  RE: Standalone converter failed to connect to a local server

    Posted Oct 20, 2012 10:14 AM

    I got this error too, and reinstalling didn't matter. I traced it to my account containing non-english characters, as my server was a swedish one where the default administrator account is spelled in swedish. Creating another admin account with english-character username solved the issue.



  • 8.  RE: Standalone converter failed to connect to a local server

    Posted Jan 06, 2014 09:43 AM

    Thank you!

    Your answer helped me!

    Just created another admin with latin characters



  • 9.  RE: Standalone converter failed to connect to a local server

    Posted Aug 20, 2015 10:14 PM

    I ran into this as well using a domain account. While still an administrator account it was giving me the "failed to impersonate user" error. After digging around for a second i realized I had set custom DNS for testing and forgot to switch my DNS back to my DC so the application was unable to authenticate my Domain user account against the proper DC. Switched my DNS back to default and everything worked just fine.