Knowledge Base

1. Enable the use of sudo during conversion of Linux source machines.

1. Browse for the converter-agent.xml file in the following locations:
   • If Converter Standalone runs on a Windows system, go to %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\VMware\VMware vCenter Converter Standalone\.
   • If Converter Standalone is running on a Linux system, go to /etc/vmware-converter/.
     
2. Open the converter-agent.xml file in a text editor and change the useSudo flag from false to true.
   
3. Restart Converter Standalone agent.
   • If Converter Standalone agent runs on a Windows system, open the Services section in the Microsoft Management Console, find the VMware Converter Agent service and restart it.
   • If Converter Standalone agent runs on a Linux system, find the Converter Agent process by running ps -axu|grep "converter-agent.xml" and terminate it. The Converter Standalone agent starts automatically the next time you initiate a conversion task.

Alternatively, instead of restarting Converter Standalone agent, you can reboot the system to make the changes to converter-agent.xml take effect.

2. Set up the source machine to allow the sudo command to be executed without prompting for a password, and without requiring a real tty, for example:

1. Add the following entry to /etc/sudoers to replace username with the non-root user's name:

username ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

2. Make sure the following entry is not present in the /etc/sudoers file:

Defaults requiretty

In case the file contains this entry, comment it out.

Note: The sudoers configuration might vary by system.  For Ubuntu operating systems further configuration is needed.  Target the specific user you will be using and assign it user id 0/group 0.  Ensure that you also still enable Allow root to ssh even though you are not using the root account.