Converted Hardware Raid Windows 2003 to Proxmox

[Dragoon]

Hello

Been having a fun time with this p2v to proxmox.

I have tried everything in the wiki as well as the forum to get this image to work so far i can only load it in vmware workstation with no issues. But when i try to load it in proxmox latest version it give me the drivers issue for the disk. I have installed the registry file as well as uninstalled all the old hardware drivers. Still having a issue any help would be great.

 

[kk_proxmox]

u can use some tool to do universal restore

 

[Dragoon]

When Stating to use a tool it normally helps to say which tool I have tried many methods.

 

[bhennigar]

I've had P2V success using the VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Client. It's a free tool. It runs on the server and creates an image of the system. Once it's complete, you move the .vmdk file to Proxmox and use the command qemu-img convert -f vmdk 'image-name'.vmdk -O qcow2 'image-name'.qcow2
Create a new VM with similar specifications as the old physical system.
Move the newly created qcow2 file to the standard location for your vm. Default location in Proxmox 2.1 is /var/lib/vz/images/vmID#/
Once converted, go to the .conf file for the virtual machine (on Proxmox 2.1, it's /etc/pve/local/qemu-server) and manually remove the empty hard drive that was created when you set up the new VM and add your new qcow2 disk.
Example:
Change this line:
ide0: local:114/vm-114-disk-1.raw
To something like this:
ide0: local:114/windows-server.qcow2

Start your VM. Hopefully this works!

 

[Dragoon]

I have tried that solution as well.. I did find a fix finally. Once the image is created with vmware converter you need to load the image in vmware workstation or vmware player, I used workstation, once in there the system booted with no issues I removed all the old drivers and rebooted to make sure its working then transfered the image to proxmox and it works. 1 extra step i had to take to get the image to work with proxmox but what i don't understand is why would i require booting to vmware first to remove the hardware as i thought proxmox should be able to load vmdk. seems like proxmox still needs to get somethings working.