Submitted by Daniel Bizon (not verified) on Mon, 2007-11-26 06:59.
It works - the error is that the VHD is not found. However, it seems that the folks at vmWare didn't code their converter properly and (looking through the logs, etc.), if the VHD isn't found in the path, it generates the VHD not found error you are having (which is why is can't determine the guest OS - because it can't locate the VHD when it is trying to open it). I tried a number of path, long-file name, etc. to trace it down and make the converter happy and nothing helped. However, the solution is...
...You have to copy both the VHD and VMC files into the directory where you installed vmWare Converter. Also, edit the VMC file with something like NOTEPAD and remove all references of path information for your VHD files (ie, change C:\Temp\WinXP.VHD to WinXP.VHD). Then the vmWare Converter 3.x will be happy again and it should work.
Good luck...
Dan
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It works - the error is that
It works - the error is that the VHD is not found. However, it seems that the folks at vmWare didn't code their converter properly and (looking through the logs, etc.), if the VHD isn't found in the path, it generates the VHD not found error you are having (which is why is can't determine the guest OS - because it can't locate the VHD when it is trying to open it). I tried a number of path, long-file name, etc. to trace it down and make the converter happy and nothing helped. However, the solution is...
...You have to copy both the VHD and VMC files into the directory where you installed vmWare Converter. Also, edit the VMC file with something like NOTEPAD and remove all references of path information for your VHD files (ie, change C:\Temp\WinXP.VHD to WinXP.VHD). Then the vmWare Converter 3.x will be happy again and it should work.
Good luck...
Dan