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Today I needed to virtual a physical server using the beta software VmWare Converter. The machine was a test server for some software we use internally. It has a Windows 2000 Advanced Server OS. After I installed I got an error that the UFAD service was not started. I went to the services snap-in only to discover no such service existed.

After some googling I found that it’s the executable vmware-ufad.exe that needs to be started. However you can’t just start this executable because it needs some parameters. When I took a look in the folder I found a batch file named startup-ufad.bat. I executed this one, but still no luck…

Okay tried to google some more, but couldn’t find any helpful information. Accidently I found another file in the vmware folder called bootrunsetup.bat, executed this one and finally this seemed to work. So the virtualization could begin.

The next steps where pretty straightforward.

I choose which physical machine to virtualize, the sizes of the HDD and the location of the newly created virtual version and off we were.

I you want more information about the Vmware Converter go to the website here