View Setup Options for a New Virtual Machine Depending on the selected source machine and destination type, the View/Edit Options page provides setup options for the destination virtual machine or virtual appliance. ■ Select the Destination Folder The Destination Attributes option is available for VMware Infrastructure destinations. This option allows you to determine the logical relationship of the new virtual machine to the virtual environment. That is, you select the folder to which the target virtual machine belongs. ■ Organizing the Data to Copy to the Destination Machine Depending on the selected source and destination, you can choose what data to copy to the destination virtual machine as well as its location on specific datastores in your virtual environment. ■ Change Device Settings on the New Virtual Machine You can change the number of processors, the amount of memory, and the disk controller type to run on the destination virtual machine. ■ Change Network Connections on the Destination You can change the number of network adapters to appear on the destination virtual machine. ■ Control the Status of Windows Services During Conversion You can change the starting mode of the source Windows services on the target virtual machine and stop the Windows services on the source machine during the conversion. Stopping some services on the source machine allows easier synchronization between the source and the target machine. ■ Advanced Customization Options Before you start the conversion, you can use the View/Edit Options page in the Conversion wizard to adjust advanced settings, such as post-conversion synchronization between source and destination, post-conversion power state of the source and/or destination virtual machine, VMware tools installation, reconfiguration of destination virtual machine, destination computer information, and system restore checkpoints. ■ Customize the Guest Operating System Depending on the selected source and destination, you can customize the operating system of the target virtual machine. ■ Set Up the Network for Helper Virtual Machine When converting physical machine sources that run Linux, Converter Standalone creates a Helper virtual machine on the destination host (ESX or vCenter Server). The Helper virtual machine needs network access to the source machine in order to clone the source files. Default conversion settings enforce automatic acquisition of IP address and DNS server for the Helper virtual machine. The following procedure allows you to setup this network connection manually. ■ Customize a Virtual Appliance You can edit the target attributes when you convert a virtual machine source to a virtual appliance. ■ Configure the Product Properties of an Exported Virtual Appliance For virtual appliance destinations, you can add custom product properties to the target OVF package. ■ Customize a VMware Infrastructure Virtual Machine When you convert to a VMware Infrastructure virtual machine, you can adjust some of its attributes. If you start the conversion process without changing any attributes, Converter Standalone applies the default conversion settings. Previous topic: Select a Destination for the New Virtual Machine Next topic: View the Summary of a Conversion Task Related concepts Advanced Customization Options