Comments on: VMware Converter Doesn’t Like x64?

By: Upgraded to VMware ESXi » Solo Technology

Upgraded to VMware ESXi » Solo Technology — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:06:54 +0000

[...] conversion). Unfortunately, thanks to the “large file copy issues” of Windows 2003 (see this post and last comments for more info) the server very quickly ran out of memory only about 20% into the [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:08:05 +0000

Brian — good stuff, thanks for following up!

By: Brian Spolarichb

Brian Spolarichb — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:33:25 +0000

Actually I don’t think that this is a VMWare issue. I think that the issue has to do with the file copy.

See here: http://blogs.technet.com/askperf/archive/2007/05/08/slow-large-file-copy-issues.aspx

I discovered Windows-2008-x64-out-of-memory problems just trying to copy the VMDK file I created on my 32-bit server onto the 64-bit server.

I also posted here on this:

http://serverfault.com/questions/56791/windows-server-2008-x64-large-file-transfers-and-memory-usage

By: Brian Spolarichb

Brian Spolarichb — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:59:30 +0000

I just had the same problem. Tried to run converter under Server 2008 x64. The conversion ran quickly and then the box went to a crawl. Eventually I figured out that it was out of memory, although the process usage didn’t show anything. I stopped the conversion and 13GB of memory came back to the OS. I guess I’ll run the conversion on a different server.

By: japer

japer — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 10:31:40 +0000

Hi there, maybe not much add to your problem, but when I have installed vmware converter on my workstation (qcore, 8GB, x64 vista entp.) login to my domain or local account started to be unpossible. After the login process, screen just still blank, nothing happened. No sign in logs (safe mode), solution for me was disabling each of converter system service.
Before this I tried to import acronis tib image to vmware wrks 6.5.0 but the vmware app. just frozen in some program loop. Unfortunately because of the work termin I hadn’t enought time to analyze this more deeply. But it isn’t very good either.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:36:16 +0000

Finally had the chance to try another VMware conversion run today.

Same issue, all the memory on the x64 server slowly “bled” away.

Odd.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:52:47 +0000

Glad to hear that it should work Thanks for that, at least.

I think I’ll try another conversion soon — I just noticed that the same conversion, from a 32 bit machine, took over 5 hours. Perhaps the issue was more with the machine I’m converting as that’s a long time for that machine (a less than half full 80 GB drive with XP)

I’m running the latest version as downloaded yesterday morning. I forget version — 3.0.3 I think?