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User’s Manual
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StandalonevirtualmachinesincludeVMwareWorkstation,VCB,AcronisTrueImage 9,MicrosoftVirtual PC
andVirtual Server,andSymantecBackupExecServerRecovery(formerlyLiveStateRecovery)6.5and7.0,
LiveState Recovery3.0and6.0,andNortonGhost 9,10,and12(.sv2ionly)images.
How Converting Affects Settings
TheVMwarevirtualmachinecreatedbytheConvertercontainsanexactcopyofthediskstatefromyour
sourcephysicalmachine,virtualmachine,orsystemimage,withtheexceptionofsomehardwaredependent
drivers(andsometimesthemappeddriveletters).Thefollowingsettingsfromthesourcecomputerremain
identical:
Operatingsystemconfiguration(computername,securityID,useraccounts,profiles,preferences,andso
forth)
Applicationsanddatafiles
Eachdiskpartition’svolumeserialnumber
Becausethetargetandthesourcevirtualmachinesorsystemimageshavethesameidentities(name,SID,and
soon),runningbothonthesamenetworkcanresultinconflicts.Toredeploythesourcevirtualmachineor
systemimage,ensurethatyoudonotrun
boththesourceandtargetimagesorvirtualmachinesonthesame
networkatthesametime.
Forexample,ifyouuseConvertertotesttheviabilityofrunningaVirtual PCvirtualmachineasaVMware
virtualmachinewithoutfirstdecommissioningtheoriginalVirtual PCmachine,youmustresolvethe
duplicateID
problem.YoucanresolvethisproblembyusingtheoptionalcustomizationstepintheConverter
wizard.
Changes to Virtual Hardware
MostmigratedapplicationsfunctioncorrectlyintheVMwarevirtualmachinebecausetheirconfigurationand
datafileshavethesamelocationasthesourcevirtualmachine.However,applicationsmightnotworkifthey
dependonspecificcharacteristicsoftheunderlyinghardwaresuchastheserialnumberorthedevice
manufacturer.
Whentroubleshooting
aftervirtualmachinemigration,beawarethatthefollowinghardwarechangesmight
occur:
CPUmodelandserialnumbers(ifactivated)canbedifferentafterthemigration.Theycorrespondtothe
physicalcomputerhostingtheVMwarevirtualmachine.
Ethernetadaptercanbedifferent(AMDPCNetorVMXnet)withadifferentMACaddress.Eachinterface
IPaddressmustbeindividuallyreconfigured.
Graphicscardcanbedifferent(VMwareSVGAcard).
Thenumberofdisksandpartitionsremainsthesame,buteachdiskdevicecanhaveadifferentmodeland
differentmanufacturerstrings.
ESXServerorVirtualCenter
virtualmachine
ESXServerorVirtualCenter
virtualmachine
EnglishASCIIdestinationvirtualmachinename
Standalonevirtualmachine EnglishASCIIdestinationpath
EnglishASCIIdestinationvirtualmachinename
NOTEInConverter,SysprepandhotfixpathsarelimitedtoEnglishASCIIcharacters.
Table 2-3. Internationalization Compliance in GUI Data Entry (Continued)
Source Destination Internationalization Limits