VMWare Conversion Tips
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010Here are a couple things I learned about converting VMWare images this weekend. First off, if you get an error that says “failed to obtain lock,” go find .lck directories in your image. Rename them or move them out of the folder.
Also, if you get an error “failed to open file,” make sure the VMWare image is local to the computer where you are running the converter. My source image was on a USB drive. Once I copied it locally, it worked. Part of the problem might be I’m running the conversion tool in a VMWare instance on my MacBook Pro. 
After I removed the .lck directories and copied the image to my VMWare guest on the MacBook, it worked fine. I was able to convert the image and send it over the VPN to my ESXi server.