Hi all,
I am trying to move some VMs from an ESXi 3.5 server to our new ESXi 5.1. However vCenter Converter (latest version) fails, with the usual "File already has an encoding "UTF-8" error. Tried to edit the old .vmx file, removed encoding entry. Still no luck. VMware documentation mentions that the issue should be fixed in the latest Converter, and that it occurs when trying to power on the converted VM. This is not the case for me, as convertion does not complete at all. The error appears inside Converter, when starting the conversion.