VMWare Converter standalone gives a "cannot find source file" error at 98% when reconfiguring the destination virtual machine

1- I tried to create symbolic link in /lib64 pointing to /lib/x86_64_linux_gnu/ for each files sudo ln -s /lib/x86_64_linux_gnu/* /lib64/
didn't work

2- I tried to copy all file from /lib/x86_64_linux_gnu/ into /lib64 : the error changed and the missing file was /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2.

3- Since /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 is a symlink i then tried to remove the symlink /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 -> /lib/ld-2.24.so to replace it with the real file ld-2.24.so and name it with the symlink name. BUT debian Crashed as soon i remove the symlink, impossible to reboot normally. I had to use a Debian CD and go in rescue mode to put the symlink back to normal (/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 -> /lib/ld-2.24.so). After a reboot I was back to where i started, but i didn't want to investigate the problem anymore.

4- Eventhough this error (..98% failed..) seems bad , the Conversion actually manage to create a bootable Virtual Machine which surprisingly seems to run fine. So may be there is no problem.

-- i used Vmware Converter standalone 6.0.0 with a physical machine running Debian 9 (with an apache server) and Vmware ESXi (Vsphere 6).

I had a similar problem once, and it turned out that I had a folder with hundreds of thousands of small files, and as soon as I packed those files in one zip file and remove the original, it worked.

Uros