importovf

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    Where can I find a basic OVF template XML for importing VMs into Proxmox?

    I am trying to migrate VMs from various existing platforms into Proxmox and they commonly allow exporting VMs either in OVF or OVA format. Unfortunately, there are various problems when trying to qm importovf because, depending on the platform, they have custom tags which seem to confuse the...
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    Import OVF

    Moin! Wir haben hier ca. 30 VM's welche aktuell auf VMWare laufen. Diese möchten wir gerne auf Proxmox umziehen. Via importovf klappt das an sich auch ganz wunderbar. Nun haben wir aber folgendes Problem: Wir haben testweise eine VM genommen welche einen Speicher von 200GB hatte. Auf den 200GB...
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    importovf fails with out of space

    Just installed proxmox yesterday and have been busy migrating my old vmware hosts to the new proxmox server. The first 5 vms migrated without problems but when i try a larger (100GB) ovf vm i get an error "out of space" root@pve:/mnt/pve/network-datastore/web7# qm importovf 105 web7_1.ovf...
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    qm importovf XPath error on importing OVF

    From what I've read, there are two basic ways of importing OVAs: Untar the OVA, import the VMDK and build a VM def over the top of the imported VMDK (as qcow2) Use qm importovf to import the OVF and associated OVA artifacts (VMDKs, etc.) I've done both with reasonable results. I'm attempting...
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    Importieren von .ovf und .vmdk

    Hallo, ich habe das Problem, dass ich zwei Dateien habe, im oben genannten Format und ich diese nicht auf den Proxmox Server bekomme. Damit soll eine VM erstellt werden, jedoch habe ich schon Probleme die beiden Dateien auf den Server zu kopieren. Das "Hochladen" funktioniert leider nicht, da...
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    Import vmware image - new!

    So I've looked at a ton of guides on this and they all want to make cows (qcow files) but I'm using lvm-thin on proxmox 5 which no longer does qcow I believe.. So I found a guide that says to just extract the ova file and then use the command: qm importovf No problemo, I have a usb drive...

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