I have a Redhat 7.6 on Rhel. I am trying to convert the machine to vmware using the 6.2.0 version of vmware converter. I have done this repeatedly with little problems when the OS is 7.5 5 months ago.
Here are the steps that I do prior to starting the conversion...
1. Make sure root login is enabled via ssh
2. Make sure connection between the windows machine running the vmware converter, the vmware cluster tp be hosting the newly converted machine and the original rhel based redhat machine is good.
3. Make sure all unnecessary processes running on the machine have been stopped.
4. Make sure /var/tmp is unmounted
5. Make sure no processes are using /tmp
6. Remount /tmp as executable (mount -o remount,exec /tmp)
Start up the converter, set ip options, along with helper ip.
The converter chugs along till it gets to 98%, and the last message in Task Progess is "Creating initial ramdisk".
The task times out giving an error of
"SysCommandWrapper: Error encountered in SysCommand: SysCommand failed to wait /usr/lib/vmware-converter/chrootAndExec.sh to terminate"
I seem to have no problems with any 7.5 machine, but this happens on all the 7.6 machines that I have tried.
I have searched the error log file and google for anyone else having this error with 7.6 with no luck.
Any comments or hints of action would be helpful. If I am posting in the wrong place, let me know the proper place to ask my question.
TIA
Dave McFerren