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Hello, I'm using Proxmox a while now, with several VMs and containers on a single machine. Now I got access to new hardware which is set up with 3 nodes using Ceph. I'd like to import a VM from VMWare to this system. I learned that I have to: - create a VM - copy and convert the vmdk to...

Hello! I'm making a tool to migrate from vmware to proxmox. I've got everything done except for handling the disks. I can't quite get the syntax right for creating LVM disks. Ideally I want to create a bunch of 1gb LVMs when I import the configs, then resize them to the correct size later as...

Dear All, I need your help as I have an urgent requirement in my organization to migrate a VM on the Proxmox hypervisor to the VMware vSphere hypervisor. Could you please advise if you have an approach which was applied before to do the same?

Hi! I would like to install 4 proxmox servers on vmware workstation vms and make a cluster with them . What settings should I use on them when installing on vmware? I would like to set up the NAT networking model Should i use NAT and Host only or Bridged and host-only as the network adapters?

I have a strange problem that I'm hoping someone can help with. I've set up 3 extra PM servers running under VMWare ESXi to use as HA in case our primary physical server goes down. As a reference for this discussion, the 4 server names are: pve0 = bare metal pve1, 2 and 3: VMWare ESXi The...

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...

I have a multi disk VM running RH7 that I'm attempting to move over from VMWare Fusion. I have migrated all the files over and converted them from ovf --> vmdk --> .raw files. It is two separate disks. I am able to get the VM to boot-up but am getting errors. dracut-initqueue[283]: Warning...

I have tried the following: root@node01-sxb-pve01:/vz/template/ova# qm importovf 109 CentOS7.2_64_kusanagi7.8.3.ovf local Formatting '/var/lib/vz/images/109/vm-109-disk-1.raw', fmt=raw size=32212254720 (100.00/100%) root@node01-sxb-pve01:/vz/template/ova# less CentOS7.2_64_kusanagi7.8.3.mf...

Hi, I'd like to install 4 proxmox VMs on a VMware What VM settings should I use If I want to the VMs to have their own private network (192.160.100.100) but be able to be pinged by the host computer? I want each Vm to have 2 NICS. Which two NICs should I use? NAT and "host only" or NAT...

Dear Proxmox community, I have yet another question about Proxmox and SSD's. I apologize if the following is too redundant but I was not able to find exact answers and I'm hoping the people here can provide some perspective. I would be very thankful and will provide my experiences and results...

Hello, I recently remarked that Proxmox VE (at last v4.4) now supports VMDK disk image file format. I couldn't find any documentation on that (maybe because I always fall on migration procedure with qemu-img convert with my internet searchs). Same on kvm documentation at RedHat. The kvm manual...

Hi, Next week i planing to migrate my esxi server to proxmox. I find a guid for this: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migration_of_servers_to_Proxmox_VE Now i install a test system to a not used server to try how can i migrate all the vms-s from esxi to proxmox. I stuk at hard disk part. I...

hello every one, i have a problem with migrate vm machine from ESX, my vm machin from esx work with HDD licence code, when i move to proxmox, hdd UUID change :( any one have a solution for this problem ...

This is a fresh install of Prox 4.3. Converted .vmdk to qcow2 root@proxie:~# qemu-img convert -f vmdk image-wmps-fireeyenx1500v-disk1.vmdk -O qcow2 image-wmps-fireeyenx1500v-disk1.qcow2 However, any instructions I can find say to copy create a VM (say 104) and and copy the qcow2 image to...

Hey guys. So... I can't even begin to tell you how much I admire, and love your product: Proxmox VE. I have a feature request. I believe it's been asked for in the past and the subject often disappears, fading into the background. The feature? Full macOS (previously Mac OS X) support as a...

Dear First Im super fan of Proxmox and any Linux technology, I have the following case: I had installed Promox on Dell Server and everything work very smooth, I installed SGM as VM, the application work fine but when need to upgrade the SMG it gave me the hardware not supported error, after...

Hi all, I've a question: In a clustered Proxmox environment with 4 nodes when all vms are stored in differents LUNs in a clustered 2 storages Synology connected with ISCSI how can I retrieve the singles disks of the singles vms? All the system work (iscsi target regolary logged, migration...

Hello Forum, Having a very odd issue migrating VMWare Windows machines over to PROXMOX using Clonezilla and wondering if anyone else has seen this (and has a solution!). Here is what I am doing In the VM on VMWare Remove VMware tools Run the mergeide.reg file Make sure atapi.sys...

Hi all, i'm new to proxmox. i work as a sysadmin in a state university. currently we are in the proccess of moving to new hardware and thinking to deploy proxmox as a replacement of vmware esxi, mainly because our institution have an strong OSS preference and also to avoid vmware free version...

Hello there, i have a strange Problem with a nfs mount. I switched from Vmware to Proxmox. I migrated multiple VMs with "qemu-img convert" This virtual machine mounts a nfs from a Synology Diskstation. But this is not reliable. Sometimes right after the boot i can't even "ls" the directory...