problems with Transporter from Boot Camp

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Eli B

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I'm trying to migrate from a Boot Camp partition to a regular Parallels VM. I'm using build 5582 with Windows XP on Leopard. The Boot Camp partition was originally set up in Tiger, if that makes any difference.

I'm able to start Transporter Agent and Transporter and follow all the steps as per instructions, and it starts migrating. But then when it's somewhere between 5% and 50% done, it stops and says "During disk(s) migrating an error has occurred."

There were a couple of mentions of this kind of thing on the forum, and the suggestions I've seen so far were (a) check the disks and (b) just keep trying it again. I did verify my target disk with Disk Utility, and ran a Windows check & defrag on my Boot Camp partition, and it all looks OK. And I've tried rerunning Transporter at least a dozen times now.

I looked at the "transporter_cl" log file but I don't know how to interpret the contents. These are the last 20 lines (the path in the 2nd line is where I was trying to put the destination VM):

2008-01-18 23:06:47.998 [F] TR00050.06
2008-01-18 23:06:48.001 [D] TR00040.06: /Volumes/Cylon/windows/WinXP/winxp.pvs
2008-01-18 23:06:48.001 [D] TR00040.02
2008-01-18 23:06:48.001 [D] TR00040.17
2008-01-18 23:06:48.001 [D] TR00015.11
2008-01-18 23:06:48.001 [D] TR00008.06: 128
2008-01-18 23:06:48.001 [D] TR00005.03: 0
2008-01-18 23:06:48.206 [D] TR00025.01
2008-01-18 23:06:48.207 [D] TR00005.03: 0
2008-01-18 23:06:48.207 [D] TR00005.03: 0
2008-01-18 23:06:48.207 [D] TR00015.01: 8; 0x8000000
2008-01-18 23:06:48.207 [D] TR00025.02
2008-01-18 23:06:48.208 [D] TR00015.01: 8; 0x8000000
2008-01-18 23:06:48.219 [D] TR00015.12
2008-01-18 23:06:48.219 [D] TR00015.11
2008-01-18 23:06:48.220 [D] TR00008.06: 128
2008-01-18 23:06:48.220 [D] TR00015.01: 8; 0x8000000
2008-01-18 23:06:48.230 [D] TR00015.12
2008-01-18 23:06:48.231 [D] TR00009.02
2008-01-18 23:06:48.234 [D] TR00005.03: 0
 
Same from with in windows

I'm getting the same result by booting into windows and running transporter locally to store on an external fat32 usb drive. :(.
 
NTFS works.

This time I converted the source (boot disk) to ntfs from fat32 with convert.exe. I was able to transport my boot camp partition on the first try from with in the virtual machine.
Looks like there are problems for source disk (at least boot disks) in FAT32.
 
no luck with NTFS

Aw... I was really hoping, but after converting my source (Boot Camp) to NTFS, it still fails.

This is a big problem for me because as long I stay in Boot Camp, (a) I can't use snapshots, so I waste a lot of time in startup & shutdown, and (b) there's this frequent problem where Parallels won't start up because it "can't open the disk image", which apparently has to do with some OS interaction with Boot Camp.
 
Hello,

could you please specify your configuration (Host OS, Guest OS, build number, transporter build number) and provide me with .log files of Parallels Transporter and Parallels Transporter Agent located in:
1. Mac: Users/<user name>/Library/Logs/Parallels/transporter_cl.log
2. Windows: %TEMP%\Parallels Transporter\transporter_xx.log
for Windows XP, 2000, 2003: C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Temp\Parallels Transporter\transporter_xx.log
for Vista: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Temp\Parallels Transporter\transporter_xx.log
*Please enable "Show hidden files and folders" in the folder options in order to see this hidden .log file: Choose "Tools" from the menu at the top of the folder window, then choose "Folder Options..." - "View", enable the "Show hidden files and folders" checkbox and click "OK".
 
Host: Mac OS 10.5.1
iMac, 2 GHz, 1 GB RAM

Guest: Windows XP Home, SP 2
512 MB RAM, 32 GB disk

Parallels Desktop 3.0, build 5584

Transporter Agent build 1456

Transporter 3.0 build 1456

Log files are attached. Hope this helps...
 

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Hello,

please, try to do the following:

in the Mac go to System Preferences->energy Saver and set your Mac to not sleep (set "Never" for both scales).

Then, in the Boot Camp go to Start->Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Computer management->Disk Defragmenter and Defragment your drive.

After that, go to My computer, highlight a local hard disk drive, right-click it->Properties->Tools tab->Check the drive for errors.

The computer will need to restart in order to run scandisk in a Safe Mode.

After that, please, try to run Transporter again.
 
Someone else suggested defragmenting and checking the disk, so I tried that already. The defragmenting finished successfully, and scandisk didn't find any errors. Transporter still fails.
 
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