Finally, VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.1 Beta Released.
The most anticipated feature at least for me, is support for GPT partitions / disks. You see, I still have some servers to convert to Virtual infrastructure and once released I won’t have any excuses.
What’s New
The VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.1 Beta includes the following new functionality:
Support for virtual machine hardware version 9
Guest operating system support for Microsoft Windows 8 and Microsoft Windows Server 2012
Guest operating system support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Support for virtual and physical machine sources with GUID Partition Table (GPT) disks
Support for virtual and physical machine sources with Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)
Support for EXT4 file system
Converter Standalone 5.1 Beta is known to have the following issues:
You cannot upgrade an existing installation of Converter Standalone to Converter Standalone 5.1 Beta. Before you install Converter Standalone 5.1 Beta, uninstall any earlier versions of Converter Standalone and delete any remaining Converter Standalone server database files from your system.
You cannot convert physical SLES 9 sources, if the root directory is located on an LVM disk. You need to convert the LVM disk to a basic disk.
Virtual machines cloned from RHEL6 and SLES 11 sources have no network connectivity. After the conversion is complete, you need to reconfigure the network settings on the destination virtual machine manually.
Virtual machines cloned from SLES 11 SP1 sources boot in console mode. After the conversion is complete, you need to recreate the xorg.conf file.
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