Vmware Standalone Converter Unable To Query The Live Linux Source Machine Full !!top!! →

This is the foundational requirement. The Converter must be able to reach the source machine via SSH.

# Test clean invocation ssh converter_user@linux_host "bash --noprofile --norc -c 'fdisk -l 2>/dev/null'"

Follow these steps in order to resolve the "unable to query" error. 1. Configure Passwordless Sudo for the User This is the foundational requirement

If you’ve ever tried to convert a physical Linux server (P2V) using , you’ve likely hit this frustrating roadblock:

Many production Linux distributions secure the /tmp directory by mounting it with the noexec flag. This prevents the vmware-sysinfo.sh script from launching, throwing a Permission denied error in the background. Alternatively, if the file system is an older ext3 configuration, it may have exceeded its hard limit of 31,988 subdirectories. Alternatively, if the file system is an older

“Unable to query the live Linux source machine (full)”

This typically happens right after you enter your source credentials and click This is the foundational requirement

If you are reading this, you are likely staring at a frustrating error message in VMware vCenter Converter Standalone:

The full error—"unable to query the live Linux source machine"—typically means the Converter client (running on Windows) received incomplete, malformed, or empty output from the Linux source. Common root causes include: