While importing a Virtual PC image into our enterprise VMWare server, the process kept bombing out with sysimage.fault.ReconfigFault. I Googled high and low, and didn't get any hits on sysimage.fault.ReconfigFault (or anything that appeared to be related). I decided to try to convert the VPC to a VMWare Workstation image so I could try playing it in VMWare Player, and I got the same results. I was resigned to giving up.
Then I noticed that VMWare Player included Microsoft VPC in its list of compatible images. On a lark, I loaded my VPC image in VMWare Player, and it started a short conversion process. Sure enough, it bombed out with "A required archive (driver.cab) could not be found in the source OS." Hmmm. Something else to Google. Thankfully, this new Google search was a bit more fruitful in its results. This guy's solution fixed the problem in VMWare Importer as well as VMWare Player.
I'm totally surprised nobody else has run into this.
Update 3/18/2007:
So it looks like this is the #1 hit on Google for resolving this issue. That's pretty cool. So I decided that, just in case the above link breaks, I'd grab the pertinent part out of the above link (in case that site ever disappears).
- Find another computer running the same operating system and service packs.
- Copy the "%windir%\Driver Cache" directory into the same location on the VPC image.
- Shut down the VPC.
That's it!
Hey, if this helps anyone, please take a second to drop me an email or leave a comment here. I'd love to hear from you.