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Ghosted devices

Duncan Epping · Dec 18, 2007 ·

After a p2v there are several “ghosted devices” left in the VM. This could for instance cause a message about having already assigned the same ip-address to another NIC when configuring your network.

This problem is caused by hidden devices which should be removed after a P2V:

  1. Within Windows open up the command prompt
  2. type “set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1”
  3. start “devmgmt.msc”
  4. Click on “View” and select “Show Hidden Devices”
  5. Uninstall all grayed out devices

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Server p2v, vm, VMware

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Duncan Epping is a Chief Technologist in the Office of CTO of the Cloud Platform BU at VMware. He is a VCDX (# 007), the author of the "vSAN Deep Dive", the “vSphere Clustering Technical Deep Dive” series, and the host of the "Unexplored Territory" podcast.

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