Prior to the release of the vStorage API many of us utilised VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) as a method to backup virtual machines within our VI3 environments.
If you have seen the following error on attempting to run the conversion via VMware Converter of a VCB backup image then you will find the following article of use.
A general system error occurred: at line number 8, not well formed (invalid token) &
A general system error occurred: at line number 9, not well formed (invalid token)
After raising a call with VMware we had no joy in attempting to resolve the issue which apparently was due to the 2 services running in the backup machine with the issue due to be fixed in the Montana release (Summer 2011) For those experiencing the error at DR you may find the following workaround of interest.