Comments on: Cold cloning without the Enterprise VMware Converter Boot ISO

By: Jacques

Jacques — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:30:10 +0000

I managed to get all of it to work and done a cold clone on Server SBS 2008, but when i start up the VM it complains that winlogon.exe is corrupt, as well as the memtest.exe. Did i do something wrong in the cloning process? or is it because it must use a later version of the converter?

By: jason

jason — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:27:30 +0000

i’m having the same issues as wayne and jon and I downloaded manually the prebuilder and put it in the same folder as moa241-setup-v3.exe. It still didn’t fix the problem? Could you please be more specific in what we have to do? Thanks.

By: Mat

Mat — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 10:48:35 +0000

I have the same problem that Keith pointed out. I selected the converter during the installationm but I don’t find any folder in X:/moahome/vm.

Suggestions ?

By: Keith

Keith — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 20:37:38 +0000

when it says “Browse to X:/moahome/vm/converter/ and click OK. VMware Converter will launch.” i dont have a “converter folder under vm”…therefore my “converter” will not start and yes during the .ISO creation i selected yes to install converter.

any ideas?

By: 1ton

1ton — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 22:14:42 +0000

@Wayne + Jon Lski

seems to be a problem with the latest version of moa not downloading barts pebuilder correctly. download it manually from this link: http://www.nu2.nu/download.php?sFile=pebuilder3110a.zip and put it in the directory where you initially put moa241-setup-v3.exe and your problem should be solved!

1ton

By: Jon Lski

Jon Lski — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 20:23:41 +0000

I am getting the exact same results as Wayne.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 20:53:59 +0000

I seem to be having an issue here that I haven’t been able to sort out.

I go through all the steps above and end up with a 34KB iso image at the end.

This has happened on two different machines, so it must be something I’m doing.

Has anyone run into this? Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks!

-w

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:25:21 +0000

@wil
I found that the usb hard drive had to plugged in before booting the CD, then assign the drive letter.

The MOA software does not work with Server 2008. It seems that the setup looks specifically for an I386 folder which is no longer present in Server 2008.

By: wil

wil — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 20:31:35 +0000

I had a hard time to get access to an exernal usb-hdd. Finally I got it running by Diskmngt (MOA-Desktop-Tool): Activities-AllTasks-ChangeDriveLetter&Path.
Maybe this was allready mentioned somewhere, at least I did not find any helpful hint on that.
So, (re)assining (win-) standard letters to partitions and drives worked for me.
Above all: great project!

By: stuckinstandby

stuckinstandby — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 17:27:01 +0000

Thanks for the guide. I’ve been looking for some info about the legality of MOA – I’m sure it’s fine – VMware/Microsoft would have pulled it if not – but I’ve not seen any statements which refer to it.

I want to use it as cold clone CD in a commercial setting but want to check which licenses are required. The procedure uses a trial version of Server 2003, so does that mean I can legally only use the CD for 180 days before requiring to buy an extra Server 2003 license?

Thanks