While running VMware converter, one may encounter this error;

Error: Unable to obtain the IP address of the target virtual machine running the Converter helper server.

For those who may not know how to fix it, it’s really easy (and I feel a little ashamed that I have to post the solution here, but who knows, someone may need the help, so step forward my young Padawan, and pay attention)…

The helper virtual machine must be able to establish an SSH connection with the source computer. By default the helper virtual machine gets its IP address assigned by DHCP. If there is no DHCP server available on the network chosen for the target virtual machine you must manually assign it an IP address.

大致翻译：Converter转化机必须能ssh连接源机器。默认情况下Converter转化机通过DHCP来获取目标虚拟机的IP地址，如果网络内没有DHCP服务器对目标虚拟机分配IP，那必须手工来设定目标虚拟机的IP地址
所以如果没有对目标虚拟机设置一个ip的话，将会出现上述的报错