“Unable to obtain hardware information for the selected machine”
Came across above error with vconverter 4.0.1 build 161434 and the older versions with server 2008 r2 64bit cold v2v convert.
Vconvert doesn’t properly support server 2008 64bit R2. Way around it is to change the Guest Operating System from virtual machine settings to Vista 64bit and vconvert will detect the vm and convert fine. After the conversion, change the OS back to server 2008 64bit R2.
vConvert won’t let you reduce the size of vm on virtual machine hardware 7. Only option is to use Thin Provision.
This solved my problem! Thanks!
Thank, this solved my problem too !!
Me too! Thanks!
Much appreciated, nice and easy fix
It works! Thanks a lot
I changed for Windows 2008 64-bit and worked as well.
Fixed my issue immediately thanks!
If that doesn’t work, create a snapshot of the machine you are trying to copy then try the converter again. Strange, I know. But it worked for me
I found that if I did a reboot and clean shutdown of the VM to be cloned, the error vanished. I think it looks for the “clean shutdown” flag to be true before it will try and clone anything. Makes sense. Thanks for all the other tips, though, they were quite helpful!