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msaunders26
Level 4
14 years ago

One time conversion to vmdk will not boot

I have taken a cold backup using system recovery 2010 of a windows 7 x64 PC

I then wanted to convert the image to a vmdk to open in Vmware workstation 7

I ran the one time conversion and I now have a vmdk all good so far.

Next I opened vmware workstation 7 and started to create a new vm as I went through the wizard it asked me to select an existing vmdk so I selected the one I created.

After the vm was created I powered up the vm but it does not boot it gets passed the BIOS screen then I just get a black screen.

 

Any thoughts?

Backup and Recovery
BESR 2010
System Recovery
  • criley's avatar
    criley
    Moderator
    14 years ago

    BESR 2010 currently only supports VMware Workstation v6. Can you try that version to see if the machine boots?

  • Symanticus's avatar
    Symanticus
    Level 6
    14 years ago

    OK, so does this means that the file.sv2i cannot be converted into VMware ESX VM image then ?

  • criley's avatar
    criley
    Moderator
    14 years ago

    Albert;

    Yes, ESX is supported. We are talking about VMware Workstation here. BESR currently only converts into Workstation v6 format.