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Re: "Unable to Obtain Hardware information for the selected machine"

I have solved this problem:

 

To do so I had to solve it in a rather round about way:

 

1)   I installed the Earliest Version of the standalone cvonverter that I could find on the VMWARE website (I think it was 4.0)  

2)   I converted the Vmware Virtual Computer to a NEW version 6.5 VMWARE virtual computer (which is the latest version that 4.0 will allow you to convert to)

3)   I then uninstalled the 4.0 converter (you cant have two installed on the same computer)

4)   I installed the latest 5.1 Standalone Converter

5)   I imported my NEW version 6.5 VMWare virtual computer into my VMware infrastructure ESXi 5.1.0 system.

 

This worked on the 3 systems I tried it on.   2 Windows 2003 Standard 32bit servers and a Centos 5.5 Linux server.

Im happy that I have got all my systems migrated.  I'm NOT happy that VMWARE is so cackhanded that you have to use an ANCIENT version to bootstrap into a new version.   Surly a new version would still have the old code installed that could read old hardware images?

 

Anyway..

 

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