Vmware server to esxi 5 blue screen

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I have a server centos 5.5 running vmware server 2 on it. I decided to install esxi5 on a different machine and test it. I copied one of my virtual machines on esxi 5. But machine I copied gives a blue screen error. I even converted copied machine using vmkfstools -i uploaded.vmdk final.vmdk on esxi but still same. I can see windows 7 logo while loading then this blue screen.

Windows installation is clean, it almost has nothing installed on it and working on vmware server 2 fine.

Here is the screen shot I caught

esxi blue screen error

Best Answer

Don't just copy the machine. Use the VMware Converter Standalone to convert it. Besides that, I had a similar problem when using the Converter - after converting the virtual disk adapter changed from IDE to SCSI in a WinXP machine, so I had to do a repair installation with injected VMware SCSI drivers. You should also have a look at the VMware Knowledgebase.

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