“The RPC server is unavailable” with Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter
When I first tried to perform a physical to virtual migration with the Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter 3.0 – I immediately hit this error message:
After a bit of poking around, I was able to figure out the problem. Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter use WMI, which is blocked on the Windows Firewall by default. Once I had allowed WMI through:
Everything started working.
Cheers,
Ben