Hi Guys,
I am having problems migrating a vm from a ESXi 4 host to a ESXi 5 host using vmware converter. So, I installed the newest available version 5.0 for converter and found out that it crashes everytime I try to doing a v2v. Looked on the web and saw a few links that confirm this behaviour and folks seem to have been able to do a v2v using a older 4.0 or 4.3 converter.
So, I installed and tried both converter version 4.0 and 4.3 without any luck. With these versions at least converter does not crash and gets a bit further but now on my 5.x virtual center I get a error message that says "is not supported for the current virtual machine version 'vmx-04' a minimum version of 'vmx-06' is required for this operation". Now the source vm is set to hardware version 7 and not sure why it is complaining about vmx-04. So, started searching the web again to find out that people that ran into this issue ended up fixing it by upgrading their converter version to the lates 5.0 
Hrmm.. so not really sure where to go from here. Converter version 5.0 definitely does not work for me and consistently crashes before starting any v2v. If I use the older 4.x versions I get that not supported error message.
Any help you can provide would be grately appreciated.
Thanks.