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Table Of Contents
- User's Guide
- Contents
- Updated Information
- About This Book
- Introduction
- Migration with Converter Standalone
- Converter Standalone Components
- Converter Standalone Features
- System Requirements
- Supported Operating Systems
- Installation Space Requirements
- Supported Source Types
- Supported Destination Types
- Restoring VCB Images in Converter Standalone
- How Conversion Affects the Source Settings When They Are Applied to the Destination
- Changes That Conversion Causes to Virtual Hardware
- TCP/IP Port Requirements for Conversion
- Common Requirements for Remote Hot Cloning of Windows Operating Systems
- Installing and Uninstalling VMware vCenter Converter Standalone
- Install Converter Standalone in Windows
- Uninstall, Modify, or Repair Converter Standalone in Windows
- Perform a Command-Line Installation in Windows
- Command-Line Options for Windows Installation
- Perform a Local Installation in Linux
- Perform a Client-Server Installation in Linux
- Uninstall Converter Standalone in Linux
- Modify or Repair Converter Standalone in Linux
- Connect to a Remote Converter Standalone Server
- Converting Machines
- Convert a Machine
- Start the Wizard for a Conversion
- Select a Source to Convert
- Select a Destination for the New Virtual Machine
- View Setup Options for a New Virtual Machine
- Select the Destination Folder
- Organizing the Data to Copy to the Destination Machine
- Distribute Disks over Several Datastores
- Distribute Volumes over Several Datastores
- Create or Delete a Target Disk
- Move a Source Volume to a Target Virtual Disk
- Modify the Settings in the Source Volumes List
- Change the Target Datastore for a Destination Virtual Disk
- Create a Thin Provisioned Disk
- Create a Linked Clone
- Change Device Settings on the New Virtual Machine
- Change Network Connections on the Destination
- Control the Status of Windows Services During Conversion
- Advanced Customization Options
- Synchronize the Source with the Destination Machine
- Adjust the Post-Conversion Power State
- Install VMware Tools
- Customize the Guest Operating System
- Edit the Destination Computer Information
- Enter the Windows License Information
- Set the Time Zone
- Set Up the Network Adapters
- Assign a Workgroup or Domain Details
- Remove System Restore Checkpoints
- Set Up the Network for the Helper Virtual Machine
- Customize a VMware Infrastructure Virtual Machine
- Customize a Standalone or Workstation Virtual Machine
- Customize a Virtual Appliance
- Configure the Product Properties of an Exported Virtual Appliance
- View the Summary of a Conversion Task
- Convert a Machine
- Configuring VMware Virtual Machines
- Configure a Virtual Machine
- Save Sysprep Files
- Select a Source to Configure
- Select the Options to Configure
- Customize a Virtual Machine’s Guest Operating System
- Edit the Computer Information of a Configured Virtual Machine
- Enter the Windows License Information of a Configured Virtual Machine
- Set the Time Zone of a Configured Virtual Machine
- Set Up the Network Adapters of a Configured Virtual Machine
- Assign a Workgroup or Domain Details of a Configured Virtual Machine
- View the Summary of a Configuration Task
- Configure a Virtual Machine
- Managing Conversion and Configuration Tasks
- Glossary
- Index
What to do next
On the View/Edit Options page, you can make more precise settings to the conversion task.
Select a Virtual Appliance Destination
You can export a virtual machine to a virtual appliance, making it available to other users to import into their
inventories. The resulting virtual appliance is an OVF 1.0 appliance and contains one virtual machine.
You cannot select a virtual appliance destination for physical machine sources or virtual appliance sources.
The OVF created as a result of this conversion is not compatible with Workstation 6.5.x, nor with Converter
3.0.3.
Prerequisites
The source virtual machine must be powered off.
Procedure
1 On the Destination page, select Virtual Appliance from the drop-down menu.
2 In the Virtual appliance details pane, type the virtual appliance name in the Name text box.
3 Click Browse to select a destination location.
The destination folder can be local or a remote machine shared over the network.
4 (Optional) If you are connected to a remote Converter Standalone server, click Connect as and provide
the user credentials to be used when connecting to the destination machine.
You must manually type the path to the destination.
5 Select the Distribution format from the drop-down menu.
You can create virtual appliance packages that contain monolithic compressed .vmdk files only. You can
store the resulting files in an .ovf folder or place them in a single .ova tarred file.
6 Click Next to customize the virtual appliance.
You selected to export a virtual machine to a virtual appliance.
What to do next
On the View/Edit Options page, you can make more precise settings to the conversion task.
Select a VMware Workstation or Other VMware Virtual Machine Destination
You can create a standalone virtual machine or Workstation virtual machine to run outside an ESX host or an
ESX host that vCenter Server manages.
You can convert to a standalone virtual machine or a Workstation virtual machine to run in VMware
Workstation 5.0, 6.0 or 6.5; VMware Fusion 1.0 or 2.0; VMware Player 1.0, 2.0 or 2.5; VMware ACE 2.0 or 2.5;
or VMware Server 1.0 or 2.0.
Hosted destinations are not supported for live Linux sources.
Procedure
1 On the Specify Destination page, select VMware Workstation or other VMware virtual machine from
the drop-down menu.
2 Select the VMware product to work with the new virtual machine.
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