P2V fails at 99% for RHEL 6 using VMware vCenter Converter 5.0

Products

• VMware

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• A physical to virtual (P2V) conversion for RHEL 6 fails at 99%
• You see the error:
  
  Failed: An error occurred during the conversion
  
  
• The converter log contains the error:
  
  Error: Unable to reconfigure the destination virtual machine
  
  
• The helper virtual machine logs contain entries similar to:

2011-03-21T16:24:48.440Z [F2F3FB90 error 'task-1'] RHEL version not supported by reconfig (converter.info.ComputerOsInfo.OsVersion) {
--> dynamicType = <unset>,
--> guestOsId = "redhat",
--> displayName = "rhel 6.0 (Santiago)",
--> osType = "linuxOs",
--> osEdition = <unset>,
--> distribution = "redHatEnterpriseLinuxDistro",
--> majorVersion = 6,
--> minorVersion = 0,
--> kernelVersion = "2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64",
--> os64Bit = true,
--> spLevel = <unset>,
--> }
2011-03-21T16:24:48.443Z [F2F3FB90 error 'task-1'] InitrdNativePatcher failed with exception RHEL version not supported by reconfig

Environment

VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.0.x

Cause

The issue occurs because there is no longer a /etc/modprobe.conf file in RHEL6. There is now instead a /etc/modprobe.d directory.

Resolution

RHEL 6 is not a supported guest operating system in VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.0.

For more information, see Supported Guest Operating Systems in the VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.0 Release Notes.

Note: RHEL 6 is supported in VMware Vcenter Converter Standalone 5.1.