Right on. I found out the import tool does not come with XCP out of the box For anyone else who may have this issue the article that helped me is
http://blogs.citrix.com/2010/12/09/diagnosing-xenserver-appliance-wizard-failures/
I used xenserver6.0.iso instead of 5.6 and it worked beautifully.
Philipp, have you used the XenServer Conversion manager before? Looks like it is supposed to rip guest machines from a vmaware host directly to XCP… I may try
it this weekend as all guest machines must be off in order to perform this action.
Thanks for the reply Philipp!
Cheers,
From: Philipp M. Kau [mailto:philipp.kau@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 11:53 AM
To: Ryan Miller
Cc: xen-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-API] vmware to XCP?
Yes, I'm currently doing this with some machines running on an ancient VMware Server 2.0. I suppose this going to work for ESX 3.x and vSphere 4.x as well.
I'm using VMware's OVF Tool to convert the machines to OVF and then import them in XCP. After that I boot the machine in HVM-mode, reconfigure the virtual machine for paravirtualization and reboot in PV-mode.