Ran into this very issue that was blogged about here: http://www.techromeo.com/?p=115
Lots of head scratching on this one. As usual, I took the long way around so I figured I had to share it.
Problem: When using the new VMware Converter Standalone, running on Windows 2008R2, to convert Hyper-V machines, I would receive the error “Unable to obtain hardware information”.
Solution: On the folder on the Hyper-V host that contains the vhd’s, set the NTFS permissions so that the local Users group has full control, rather than the default read permissions.
Background: It appears that VMware converter creates a local account on the machine it is installed on. I tried running Converter locally on the Hyper-V host and setting explicit permissions to that local account. Also keep in mind that Converter will ask you for credential to connect to the Hyper-V host and will not work without them. I also tried to set the permissions to the machine account to that of the machine running converter.
Good to know!
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