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It was 11:47 PM on a Friday. Sarah, a senior infrastructure engineer, was two hours into what should have been a routine P2V migration. The source machine: an aging Windows Server 2008 R2 box running a critical line-of-business app. The destination: a shiny new vSphere 7 cluster.
The next conversion attempt was clean. The driver started. The clone synced block by block. It was 11:47 PM on a Friday
She checked if the driver was even present. On the source machine, she opened C:\Windows\System32\drivers and looked for vmware-ctk.sys . Nothing. That meant Converter never installed it properly—or the OS blocked it. The destination: a shiny new vSphere 7 cluster
Sarah ran bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off , disabled Hyper-V from Windows Features, removed Device Guard via registry, and rebooted twice (the second to finalize). The clone synced block by block
A quick sc query vstor2-mntapi10-shared showed the driver service wasn't there either.
At 2:13 AM, the conversion finished. She shut down the source, powered on the VM, and the app came up without a hitch.
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