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Table Of Contents
VMware Converter User’s Manual
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Canceling a Task
Anongoingp2vTooltaskiscancelledifyoupressCtrl+C.
Table A-1. p2vTool Options
Option Action
-? [--help] Produceshelpmessage.
Liststheoptionsforthep2vToolcommandlineinterface.
-q [--query] Retrievessourcecomputerinformation.
ReturnsanXMLdescriptionofthesourcemachine.Runthe-qoption
againstanyproperlyformattedinputXMLfilethatspecifiesasource.
RunningthisbeforeimportingcanhelpyouinsettinguptheXML
filefor
doingtheimport.Thisoptionrequiresthe-soptiontoidentifythesource
computer.ToviewtheXMLoutputonyourmonitor,usethe-doption
also.Toprintittoafile,usethe-ooption.SeeExample A5and
Example A9.
-v [--verify] Verifiesthatthesourcecomputer
canbeimportedtothedestination
computer.
Forconfirmingtheavailabilityofthesourcemachineandtheavailability
ofthedestinationmachinewithsufficientroomonittoreceivethe
migratedmachine.Thisoptionrequiresthe-soptiontoidentifyaninput
XMLfilethatspecifiesacompleteimportjob(do
notuseitwithaninput
XMLfilethatspecifiesapostprocessonlyjob).ToviewtheXMLoutputon
yourmonitor,usethe-doptionalso.
-i [--import] Performsamigration.
Forinitiatingthemigration.Thisoptionrequiresthe-soptiontoidentify
thesourcecomputerandtheparametersoftheoperation
inthep2v.xml
file.
-p [--postprocess] Performspostprocessingofthevirtualmachine.
Forimagecustomizationorreconfigurationparametersofamachinenot
involvedinamigration.(Postprocessingcanbedoneaspartofan-i
migrationifpostProcessingParamsarespecifiedintheinputXMLfile.)
Thisoptionrequiresthe-soptionto
specifytheinputXMLfiletobe
appliedagainstthesource.
PostprocessingisnotperformedwhenyoucreateOVFvirtualappliances.
Youperformpostprocessingonthetargetvirtualmachinewhenyou
importavirtualappliancetoasupporteddestination.Itisnotperformed
onOVFimages,includingOVFimagesyoucreate
byusingthe-ioption.
-s [--source] arg (=p2v.xml) InputsanXMLfile.
TheXMLfilethatdefinesthemigrationortheobjectoftheactivitystarted
bytheactionoption.See“MigrationXMLInputFileExamples”onpage 70
and“VCBRestoreXMLInputFileExamples”onpage 75forexamples.
-o [--output] arg PrintsoutputXMLtospecified
file.
-d [--dump] PrintsoutputXMLtoconsole.
-l [--lic] Printsthelicense.
Displaysinformationonexistinglicensetype,versionnumber,issueddate,
expirydate,andnumberofconcurrentjobsallowed.
-n [--newlic] arg Changesalicense.
Toaddorchangeanexistinglicense,providethepathofthefilecontaining
thelicenseyouwanttoaddor
use.
NOTEIfyoudonotprovidetheusernameorpasswordforaccessingasourceordestinationmachineinthe
p2v.xmlfile,p2vToolpromptsforthenameorpasswordtobeentered.