Derek's Musings » SCVMM http://www.incandetech.com/derek I'm right. You're wrong. Don't take it personally. It's just how things are. Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:58:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 SCVMM Warning 3243 http://www.incandetech.com/derek/2008/07/22/scvmm-warning-3243/ http://www.incandetech.com/derek/2008/07/22/scvmm-warning-3243/#comments Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:19:54 +0000 Derek http://www.incandetech.com/derek/?p=17 Continue reading →]]> Have you been lucky enough to stumble upon Warning 3243 when attempting to convert a VMware VM to a Virtual Server or Hyper-V VM in System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)?

Yeah? Me too.

Is the opening sentence of this post too long?

Yeah? Tough.

The answer may be as follows (your mileage may vary):

  • Backup the original *.vmx (VMware) file
  • Open the *.vmx file in the text editor of your choice
  • Do a Find/Replace (or a hunt and peck methodology if you’re paranoid like me), replacing any instance of “ide” with “scsi”
  • Try the conversion for the tenth time
  • Breathe
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