I'm trying to migrate some old VMWare Server 2 VMs to ESX 5.1. I'm still building the ESX server so am using Converter 5.0.0 standalone on a separate machine with a view to converting the VMs locally and copying the converted machines up later. However, whatever machine I try I get a 'Unable to obtain hardware information for the selected machine' error. I've not got any task logs (it never gets that far) but I've got the following in the GUI logs. The
3rd party type vmwareVM not found
Looks suspicious to me as according to the help the VMware virtual machines Supported Source includes VMWare Server 2.x format machines. Am I missing something here or is this a bug in this version?
2013-01-15T13:58:36.015Z [03696 verbose 'wizardController'] Found data connection SourceSelect
2013-01-15T13:58:36.015Z [03696 info 'wizardController'] parameter>>> DefaultPhysicalSource ( 1 )
2013-01-15T13:58:36.015Z [03696 info 'wizardController'] parameter>>> DefaultRemoteOS ( windowsOs )
2013-01-15T13:58:36.015Z [03696 info 'wizardController'] parameter>>> DefaultSource ( 0 )
2013-01-15T13:58:36.015Z [03696 info 'wizardController'] parameter>>> ShowServer20 ( False )
2013-01-15T13:58:36.015Z [03696 info 'wizardController'] parameter>>> ShowStandalone ( True )
2013-01-15T13:58:36.015Z [03696 info 'wizardController'] parameter>>> ThirdPartyHostedFilter ( <obj xmlns="urn:ConverterLogic" versionId="1.0" xsi:type="ArrayOfConverterLogicKeyValuePair"><ConverterLogicKeyValuePair xsi:type="ConverterLogicKeyValuePair"><key>microsoftVirtualPCVM</key><val xsi:type="xsd:string">Microsoft Virtual PC (*.vmc)</val></ConverterLogicKeyValuePair><ConverterLogicKeyValuePair xsi:type="ConverterLogicKeyValuePair"><key>parallelsVM</key><val xsi:type="xsd:string">Parallels Virtualization Products Image (*.pvs)</val></ConverterLogicKeyValuePair><ConverterLogicKeyValuePair xsi:type="ConverterLogicKeyValuePair"><key>livestateBackup</key><val xsi:type="xsd:string">Symantec LiveState Recovery Image (*.sv2i)</val></ConverterLogicKeyValuePair><ConverterLogicKeyValuePair xsi:type="ConverterLogicKeyValuePair"><key>shadowProtectBackup</key><val xsi:type="xsd:string">StorageCraft ShadowStor Image (*.spf)</val></ConverterLogicKeyValuePair><ConverterLogicKeyValuePair xsi:type="ConverterLogicKeyValuePair"><key>acronisBackup</key><val xsi:type="xsd:string">Acronis True Image Backup (*.tib)</val></ConverterLogicKeyValuePair><ConverterLogicKeyValuePair xsi:type="ConverterLogicKeyValuePair"><key>vmwareVCBBackup</key><val xsi:type="xsd:string">VMware Consolidated Backup (*.vmx)</val></ConverterLogicKeyValuePair></obj> )
2013-01-15T13:58:36.015Z [03696 info 'wizardController'] parameter>>> VMwareHostedFilter ( <obj xmlns="urn:ConverterLogic" versionId="1.0" xsi:type="ArrayOfConverterLogicKeyValuePair"><ConverterLogicKeyValuePair xsi:type="ConverterLogicKeyValuePair"><key>vmwareVM</key><val xsi:type="xsd:string">VMware virtual machine (*.vmx)</val></ConverterLogicKeyValuePair></obj> )
2013-01-15T13:58:36.046Z [03696 info 'wizardController'] FillPage()
2013-01-15T13:58:36.046Z [02008 error 'Default'] SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildFilter 3rd party type microsoftVirtualPCVM not found
2013-01-15T13:58:36.046Z [02008 error 'Default'] SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildFilter 3rd party type parallelsVM not found
2013-01-15T13:58:36.046Z [02008 error 'Default'] SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildFilter 3rd party type vmwareVCBBackup not found
2013-01-15T13:58:36.046Z [02008 error 'Default'] SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildFilter 3rd party type livestateBackup not found
2013-01-15T13:58:36.046Z [02008 error 'Default'] SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildFilter 3rd party type shadowProtectBackup not found
2013-01-15T13:58:36.046Z [02008 error 'Default'] SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildFilter 3rd party type acronisBackup not found
2013-01-15T13:58:36.046Z [02008 error 'Default'] SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildFilter 3rd party type vmwareVM not found
2013-01-15T13:58:36.046Z [02008 error 'Default'] SourceSelectPluginModel::BuildThirdpartyHostedExtVector 3rd party type vmwareVM not found
2013-01-15T13:58:43.457Z [02008 info 'ConverterSession'] Converter::Client::Gui::Common::DiagnosticDataProvider::SetLastKnownSource - Setting last known source:
--> (converter.ComputerSpec) {
--> dynamicType = <unset>,
--> location = (converter.ComputerSpec.ThirdPartyHostedLocation) {
--> dynamicType = <unset>,
--> configFilePath = "D:\To be converted\VM1\Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmx",
--> password = <unset>,
--> networkUsername = <unset>,
--> networkPassword = <unset>,
--> type = "vmwareVCBBackup",
--> },
--> }