28 Apr
2010
28 Apr
'10
7:55 p.m.
On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 12:39 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
Running the VMware converter tool from an old Dell Win2k server with an IDE disk to produce an ESXi image went through the motions but the image wouldn't boot - but doing the same thing to a vmware server (v1) image file over a network share worked. Has anyone seen that before?
--- Well for those that must have a Windows OS heres the hack:
You must go to microsoft.com search for the tools to allow that. What it does is Relax The Windows IDE Checks so the disk or image can be used as a VM or on other hardware. You must also have the same ACPI Options in your hypervisor.
This must be done before you use the vmware tools to create the image.
John