3.0
Table Of Contents
- User’s Manual
- Contents
- About This Book
- Introduction
- System Requirements
- Application Requirements
- Memory Requirements for Cold Cloning
- Virtual Machine and System Image Requirements
- Restoring VCB Images in Converter
- Supported Destinations
- Configuring Permissions for VirtualCenter Users
- Level of Internationalization Support
- How Converting Affects Settings
- Changes to Virtual Hardware
- TCP/IP Port Requirements
- Remote Hot Cloning Troubleshooting Tips
- Installing and Uninstalling
- Converting Machines
- Using the Converter Boot CD for Local Cold Cloning
- Configuring VMware Virtual Machines
- Managing Tasks
- Appendix: Migration with p2vTool Command-Line Interface
- Glossary
- Index
User’s Manual
18 VMware, Inc.
ToconfigurevirtualmachinesonWindows2000andWindowsNT,theoperatingsystemmustbe
Windows 2000orWindowsNT,asshowninTable 2‐1.AlthoughConverterallowsconversionofasource
imagewithalateroperatingsystemversionwhenrunningonthesesystems,(forexample,conversionofa
WindowsXP
sourcetoaWindows2000host),Convertercannotreconfiguretheimages.Similarly,when
exportingtoanOVFvirtualappliance,Convertercannotreconfigurethesourceimage.
Converterhasthefollowingspacerequirementsforinstallation:
Memory Requirements for Cold Cloning
ForcoldcloningwiththeConverterBootCD,thesourcephysicalmachinemusthaveatleast264MBof
memory.VMwarerecommends364MBofmemory.Table 2‐2showsthelimitationsplacedoncoldcloningif
youuselessthantherecommendedmemoryrequirement.
Foracoldclone,theVMwareConverterBootCD
canbestartedfrom,andclone,machineswithstorage
controllersandnetworkadaptersthatMicrosoftlistsassupportedinWindows2003.Withthisrequirement
met,ConvertercanclonemachinesrunningoperatingsystemsnotedintheApplicationRequirementssection.
Table 2-1. Operating System Compatibility
Source Machine OS
Compatible OS on the System Running Converter
Windows NT Server
Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows 2003 Windows Vista
WindowsNTServer X X X X X
Windows2000 X X X X
WindowsXP X X X
Windows2003 X X X
WindowsVista XX X
Installation Component Value
Installersize 30.1MB
Installedfiles 65MB
Minimumbootdriverequirement
(ifinstalledonbootdrive)
120MB
Minimumbootdriverequirement
(ifinstalledonanotherdrive)
105MB
Table 2-2. Boot CD Cold Cloning Memory Requirements
Source Physical Machine Memory Converter Boot CD
Lessthan264MB Cannotperformacoldclone.
Greaterthanorequalto264MBbutlessthan296MB Canperformacoldclone,butcannotuseaRAMdisk.
Greaterthanorequalto296MBbutlessthan364MB CanperformacoldclonewithaRAMdisk,althoughusing
networkshareissuggested.
TheRAMdisksizeismemory
minus264MB.
Greaterthanorequalto364MB CanperformacoldclonewithaRAMdisk.
TheRAMdisksizeismemoryminus264MB,uptoalimitof
124MB.