VMware vCenter Converter 4.0 has just been released.

VMware vCenter Converter 4.0

What’s New?

  • Physical to virtual machine conversion support for Linux (RHEL, SUSE and Ubuntu) as source
  • Physical to virtual machine conversion support for Windows Server 2008 as source
  • Hot cloning improvements to clone any incremental changes to physical machine during the P2V conversion process
  • Support for converting new third-party image formats including Parallels Desktop virtual machines, newer versions of Symantec, Acronis, and StorageCraft
  • Workflow automation enhancements to include automatic source shutdown, automatic start-up of the destination virtual machine as well as shutting down one or more services at the source and starting up selected services at the destination
  • Target disk selection and the ability to specify how the volumes are laid out in the new destination virtual machine
  • Destination virtual machine configuration, including CPU, memory, and disk controller type

The most important features is support for Linux platforms and the bad new is my first SuSE Linux 10 SP1 convertion have been failed and I’m trying on second one…. stay tune.

VMware Converter

Updated: The second try worked and please make sure Converter Helper network setup is correct. It took about 24 minutes for convert from LAN to LAN and total of 34G hard disk space.

VMware Convert Worked

Check out the VMware vCenter Converter 4.0 Standalone release notes here.

Please noted that VMware Converter 4 download required registration or login.

Download details as below:
Converter Installer for Windows
Version 4 | 146302 – 02/12/09 101MB Binary (.exe)
Converter Installer for Linux
Version 4 | 146302 – 02/12/09 117 MB Binary (.tar.gz)