Trying to use VMware image with proxmox

[wisem2540]

Hello,

Firstly let me say that I am pretty new to proxmox. I use proxmox as a test environment at work. We are trying to demo Dell KACE which comes only as a VMware image.

I want to be able to boot this image up on a proxmox "machine." From what I understand, KACE is its own self-contained appliance, so im not sure what, if any, OS that runs under it.

So here is what I did....

I created a VM with 100GB HDD and 2GB of Ram. Then I tried to replace the vdmk file that proxmox create with the one from dell...tried to boot...nothing

So then I started reading and I saw and option to convert images. So heres what I get....

qemu-img convert -f vmdk k1000.vmdk qcow2 k1000.qcow2 (Also tried raw)

I get this error...

/var/lib/vz/images/105$ qemu-img convert -f vmdk k1000.vmdk qcow2 k1000.qcow2
*** glibc detected *** qemu-img: double free or corruption (top): 0x0000000000c297b0 ***
======= Backtrace: =========


I really just need to know the easiest way to use this image...im pulling my hair out over this.

 

[wisem2540]

I guess i should also mention that since I downloaded this from Dell, I do not have a license for VMware, which means I dont think I can use VMware disk manager to do the converting....

 

[udo]

Hi,
what is the output of

file k1000.vmdk

Perhaps allready raw?

Udo

 

[janzun]

Hi,

I've migrate a lot of ESX machines to Proxmox, thats what i do:

- First I create the KVM VM in proxmox with a 1GB vmdk disk (you cannot create a non-disk machine)
- Second I detach the 1GB disk and copy the vmware disk to the vm path in proxmox
- Third I attach the new disk and voila

You should play with boot options and bus type and, if vm is Linux you need to take a look at fstab and mount points (it depends on how disk is identify by the system: UUID, bus type, etc). If vm is Windows probably you need to do other things (No idea).

Regards,

Jesús FF.