Sysprep tools vmware converter

Its not mentioned in the link above. Interesting, managed to log on. The local admin account was renamed to Administrator, but the password stayed the same. We normally rename the local admin account, lets say to "MyAdmin". But the MyAdmin account is gone, and Administrator is back. The server does have a new SID though! To continue this discussion, please ask a new question. Get answers from your peers along with millions of IT pros who visit Spiceworks.

Hi We are using vSphere Web Client version 5. Note that I'm just trying to expand my knowledge here - I'm fine with running it from now on. Popular Topics in VMware. Which of the following retains the information it's storing when the system power is turned off? Submit ». Verify your account to enable IT peers to see that you are a professional. Thai Pepper. Sandworm Aug 11, at UTC.

Thanks guys for the information. So it looks like just extra step after we isolated VM is created. Then move the VM back. Why not use vsphere templates for this? Seems like a good use. Sandworm Aug 12, at UTC. 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. The network traffic is probably blocked by firewalls that are on the Converter machine, the Windows target machine or in between.

Make sure the firewalls are disabled or port is allowed to pass through. This happens due to some misconfiguration of drivers in the registry.

To fix this, run the Converter program again and do a machine reconfiguration only don't reconvert. Let it install VMware Tools, select "Reconfigure destination virtual machine" and do NOT select "Configure guest preferences for the virtual machine" If that does not solve your problem, read this thread.

At the boot prompt of Knoppix, just press enter to boot into the graphical interface. Type: fdisk -l This will list all disks in your VM. Identify your operating system hard disk by capacity if possible. If that is not your desired partition, skip to step 10 then try mounting another partition. VMware requires that you register to be able to download, but their servers are slow at least in my experience.