I have converted a server having windows 2000 adv server with sp4 (Dell 8450 series with 4 processors). I used Vmware converter 4.0 to convert in to VM. Earlier it failed so many times when i choose preservce & SCSI options. It worked it successfully converted into VM when i choose IDE. but ran only in vmware server 2.0. As IDE is not supported in ESX 4.0. Now we are buying license for Vsphere and want this physical machien (dell 8450) into ESX 4.0. I tried converted the machine many times but when it reaches to 97%, it fails on reconfiguration all the time. so I removed the reconfiguration option before converting & converted the files in three different ways. preserve, scsi & IDE. Now when i moved in the datastore and configured with VM one by one. (IDE Didnt work since start). the other two Files, failes at the below error all the time.
Stop: 0x0000007B Inaccessible_boot_device Error
It starts well windows 2000 page appears after the bar comes in the middle this error appears. I have tried all the methods to run this VM like converting it Bus & LSI controllers . ESX 4 gives four option BSU, LSI , Para and the fourth i dont remember right now. I tried all 4 ways chaning to make it run but all the time same error appears. I also tried converted the Vmdk files with vmkfstools -i option. But still things didnt work. I dont know what should i do. Can anyone help. For your reference, I am pasting vmx for one of the vmx files below. Appreciate if somebody tells me step by step or atleast guide new way to make this file work.
vmx file :
#!/usr/bin/vmware
.encoding = "UTF-8"
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "7"
pciBridge0.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge4.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge4.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge4.functions = "8"
pciBridge5.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge5.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge5.functions = "8"
pciBridge6.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge6.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge6.functions = "8"
pciBridge7.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge7.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge7.functions = "8"
vmci0.present = "TRUE"
nvram = "Buslogic.nvram"
deploymentPlatform = "windows"
virtualHW.productCompatibility = "hosted"
unity.customColor = "|23C0C0C0"
tools.upgrade.policy = "useGlobal"
powerType.powerOff = "soft"
powerType.powerOn = "default"
powerType.suspend = "hard"
powerType.reset = "soft"
displayName = "Buslogic"
extendedConfigFile = "Buslogic.vmxf"
floppy0.present = "TRUE"
numvcpus = "2"
scsi0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0.sharedBus = "none"
memsize = "1024"
scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:0.fileName = "Buslogic.vmdk"
scsi0:0.deviceType = "scsi-hardDisk"
scsi0:1.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:1.fileName = "Buslogic_1.vmdk"
scsi0:1.deviceType = "scsi-hardDisk"
ide0:0.present = "TRUE"
ide0:0.clientDevice = "TRUE"
ide0:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"
ide0:0.startConnected = "FALSE"
floppy0.startConnected = "FALSE"
floppy0.clientDevice = "TRUE"
ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.wakeOnPcktRcv = "FALSE"
ethernet0.networkName = "VM Network"
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
serial0.present = "TRUE"
serial0.yieldOnMsrRead = "TRUE"
serial0.fileName = "/dev/ttyS0"
serial1.present = "TRUE"
serial1.yieldOnMsrRead = "TRUE"
serial1.fileName = "/dev/ttyS1"
guestOS = "win2000advserv"
uuid.location = "56 4d 70 3b a9 4a a4 58-30 b1 2e 46 87 30 6c d4"
uuid.bios = "56 4d 70 3b a9 4a a4 58-30 b1 2e 46 87 30 6c d4"
vc.uuid = "52 2e 02 4b ca fc e0 b9-13 17 bf 77 6d 59 f6 ed"
sched.cpu.affinity = "all"
sched.mem.affinity = "all"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:30:6c:d4"
cleanShutdown = "FALSE"
replay.supported = "FALSE"
sched.swap.derivedName = "/vmfs/volumes/4a4c71d8-3013156c-1d94-001b7802d5f6/Buslogic/Buslogic-fe45f1d4.vswp"
scsi0:0.redo = ""
scsi0:1.redo = ""
vmotion.checkpointFBSize = "4194304"
pciBridge0.pciSlotNumber = "17"
pciBridge4.pciSlotNumber = "21"
pciBridge5.pciSlotNumber = "22"
pciBridge6.pciSlotNumber = "23"
pciBridge7.pciSlotNumber = "24"
scsi0.pciSlotNumber = "16"
ethernet0.pciSlotNumber = "32"
vmci0.pciSlotNumber = "33"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
vmci0.id = "-2026869548"
hostCPUID.0 = "0000000a756e65476c65746e49656e69"
guestCPUID.0 = "0000000a756e65476c65746e49656e69"
userCPUID.0 = "0000000a756e65476c65746e49656e69"
hostCPUID.1 = "000006f6000208000004e3bdbfebfbff"
guestCPUID.1 = "000006f600010800800002010febfbff"
userCPUID.1 = "000006f6000208000004e3bdbfebfbff"
hostCPUID.80000001 = "00000000000000000000000120000800"
guestCPUID.80000001 = "00000000000000000000000000000800"
userCPUID.80000001 = "00000000000000000000000120000800"
evcCompatibilityMode = "FALSE"