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Table 2-7. Changes to Hardware Information Because of Conversion (Continued)
Affected Area Behavior
Serial port Defaults to the physical serial port on destination host machine.
Parallel port Defaults to the physical parallel port on destination host machine.
When you restore images, the Converter Standalone GUI does not preserve certain other virtual machine
properties from the original image, but substitutes default settings. Table 2-8 shows the affected areas.
Table 2-8. Changes to Properties Because of Conversion
Affected Area Behavior
UUID The virtual machine’s BIOS and location, identified by uuid.bios and uuid.location, are not
preserved. The destination host machine regenerates the BIOS and location.
Disk resource allocation Defaults to the values available on the host when the virtual machine is created.
Information Not Preserved for Hosted Product Destinations
When you import a VCB image to a hosted product destination (Workstation, for example), Converter
Standalone cannot guarantee that virtual machine properties can be preserved. This behavior is because
Converter Standalone handles this importation as a normal migration, not a restore.
For more information about VCB images, see the Virtual Machine Backup Guide.
How Conversion Affects the Source Settings When They Are Applied to
the Destination
The VMware virtual machine that Converter Standalone creates contains an exact copy of the disk state from
the source physical machine, virtual machine, or system image. Some hardware-dependent drivers and
sometimes the mapped drive letters are not included in the copy.
The following settings from the source computer remain identical:
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Operating system configuration (computer name, security ID, user accounts, profiles, preferences, and so
on)
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Applications and data files
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Each disk partition volume serial number
Because the target and the source virtual machines or system images have the same identities (name, SID, and
so on), running both machines on the same network can result in conflicts. To redeploy the source virtual
machine or system image, ensure that you do not run the source and target images or virtual machines on the
same network at the same time.
For example, if you use Converter Standalone to test the viability of running a Virtual PC virtual machine as
a VMware virtual machine without first decommissioning the original Virtual PC machine, you must resolve
the duplicate ID problem. To resolve this problem, use the optional View/Edit step in the Conversion wizard.
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