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You can always use a Linux liveCD to inject things. I guess you should mention that case makes sense. SYS in the converted system but scsiport. Knoppix is case-sensitive and doesn't replace it.

There is scsiport. It is also a part of vmware tools. I am trying to convert a W2K system to a VM. From the steps above, I am gathering that the VMware converter should be installed on the system where you want the VM to be created Extract the sysprep tools on the W2K system Just trying to clarify the steps in the procedure and where you install, run the tools. Anonymous , You install the converter either on the vCenter server 4. Also, you need the older version of the standalone converter to make sure it supports Win2k.

Thank you Ben. The only thing bad thing I can say about this post is that Version is spelled Versoin in 1. Just a thought, wouldn't it be easier to just upgrade W2K to when possible?

I realize some folks might have legacy applications but if not Anonymous , Thank for spotting the typo! It's not always possible to upgrade a system in production, especially one that is fragile and doesn't have a full disk clone, or the hardware is too old and a disk clone would be useless. Hello I would like some extra info please: 1.

Should I run sysprep on my W2K server before copying the sysprep files to the converter machine? I downloaded and copy the sysprep for W2k from MS , but vmware converter still request them in the programdata folder.

I am using esx5 on my host server. I had to download version 4. Can I send the data directly from converter 4 to esx5 infrastructure? After you finish the conversion, do not power on the VM. Anonymous , Converter 4.

Also curious how do people make backups of their VM? I guess the snapshot feature doesnt come with any of the free products. Snapshots should be used to take a snapshot before applying a patch or testing a new feature, but never for backup, and for performance's sake, never leave a snapshot for more than 3 days. Search online on how snapshots in VMware behave to understand the performance hits. It may be bundled with the Standard edition, too, so check with your VMware vendor or buy it from VMware directly.

Thx - great guide. Just used it without any problems:- Only bad thing is that I now still have a very old server in my production environment Hi, thank you for your post, it did help me out "disk read error" issue.. Thank you so much for this how-to and the level of detail you have provided, this helped us save a client's aging physical Win2K systems and buy them enough time to plan for a migration.

Thanks again! Hi MBH, We recently got our hands on a really old production server on windows server and decided that we had better convert and host it on a VM datacentre before the hardware fails on us. In this aspect is there any additional steps required or we should watch out for besides following the detailed steps in your blog? We were looking at just creating the VM image file which we would then pass over to the datacentre to load up the VM image for us.

Do install VMware tools. Do NOT select "configure guest preferences for the virtual machine" With that, you should be set to convert that machine. After the conversion is complete, the VM will start, install VMware tools, then restart. After it comes up you should apply the proper network settings then shutdown and enable the NIC to connect at power on.

If you don't want install VMware tools, if you start the win, you need to setup the video adapter, you can use this as the adapter driver. You must boot into a LiveCD and replace the file in the location mentioned above. SYS to the target machine before converting. Open the services console services. After the service is started, run VMware Converter and it should connect.

Convert your physical machine or another one connected to the local network to a virtual machine with the help of this powerful application. New in VMware vCenter Converter 6. Converter Standalone 6. You can provide a path for the temporary files of vmware-sysinfo to be extracted and executed. Note: This affects all future Linux conversions until the value is restored and the service is restarted again. Read the full changelog.

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