Michael Requeny | 
04 3rd, 2011| 
Your just going about your day, trying to P2V a machine using the Cold Clone when you get the error: Unable to determine Guest OS
You check the client log and don’t find anything helpful:
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vmware-converter-client-0.log [2011-02-15 09:35:08.718 'P2V' 840 error] [task,296] Task failed: P2VError UNABLE_TO_DETERMINE_GUEST_OS |
Then you check the agent log and it sheds light on the problem:
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vmware-converter-agent-0.log [#3] [2011-02-15 09:35:23.000 'App' 268 warning] [attachedDiskWin32,499] Warning: no attached disks were detected. [#3] [2011-02-15 09:35:23.000 'App' 268 error] [slave,359] No local disks were detected, so no local host config info. [#3] [2011-02-15 09:35:23.000 'App' 1072 error] [importSource,369] Unable to read OS info from system disk: vmodl.fault.SystemError [#3] [2011-02-15 09:35:23.000 'App' 1072 error] [imageProcessingTaskImpl,572] VmiQuerySourceInfoTask::task{2}: Image processing task has failed with MethodFault::Exception: sysimage.fault.UnableToDetermineGuestOs |
Looks like WinPE didn’t find a suitable driver for our storage adapter. Â Not a problem heres the steps to correct this:
