Error while importing VM with multiple disks with "qm import" command

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Hello Proxmox forum!

I'm currently on the process of migrating from ESXI to Proxmox, and so far everything runned fine.
I'm getting each of my VMs with ovftool from ESXI to Proxmox, then importing them with "qm importovf MV-ID path-of-OVF storage".

I'm facing an issue with one VM that has multiple disks.

The command ends up with :
error during import, cleaning up created resources...
disk image '/mnt/pve/nfs-saturn/images/113/vm-113-disk-0.raw' does not exist
disk image '/mnt/pve/nfs-saturn/images/113/vm-113-disk-1.raw' does not exist
import failed - cowardly refusing to overwrite existing entry: ide0
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Proxmox : Virtual Environment 6.4-13

Here's the full log :
root@ns3045049:~# qm importovf 113 /mnt/pve/nfs-saturn/tmp/ipva/ipva.ovf nfs-saturn
Formatting '/mnt/pve/nfs-saturn/images/113/vm-113-disk-0.raw', fmt=raw size=106954752
transferred 0.0 B of 102.0 MiB (0.00%)
transferred 1.1 MiB of 102.0 MiB (1.09%)
transferred 2.2 MiB of 102.0 MiB (2.18%)
transferred 3.3 MiB of 102.0 MiB (3.28%)
transferred 4.5 MiB of 102.0 MiB (4.37%)
transferred 5.6 MiB of 102.0 MiB (5.46%)
transferred 6.7 MiB of 102.0 MiB (6.55%)
transferred 7.8 MiB of 102.0 MiB (7.65%)
transferred 8.9 MiB of 102.0 MiB (8.74%)
transferred 10.0 MiB of 102.0 MiB (9.83%)
transferred 11.1 MiB of 102.0 MiB (10.92%)
transferred 12.3 MiB of 102.0 MiB (12.01%)
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Formatting '/mnt/pve/nfs-saturn/images/113/vm-113-disk-1.raw', fmt=raw size=321912832
transferred 0.0 B of 307.0 MiB (0.00%)
transferred 307.0 MiB of 307.0 MiB (100.00%)
transferred 307.0 MiB of 307.0 MiB (100.00%)
Formatting '/mnt/pve/nfs-saturn/images/113/vm-113-disk-2.raw', fmt=raw size=590348288
transferred 0.0 B of 563.0 MiB (0.00%)
transferred 6.0 MiB of 563.0 MiB (1.07%)
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error during import, cleaning up created resources...
disk image '/mnt/pve/nfs-saturn/images/113/vm-113-disk-0.raw' does not exist
disk image '/mnt/pve/nfs-saturn/images/113/vm-113-disk-1.raw' does not exist
import failed - cowardly refusing to overwrite existing entry: ide0
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Here are the files I'm trying to import.
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7700992 Oct 10 15:10 ipva-disk1.vmdk
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 71168 Oct 10 15:10 ipva-disk2.vmdk
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17124864 Oct 10 15:11 ipva-disk3.vmdk
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 72192 Oct 10 15:11 ipva-disk4.vmdk
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8684 Oct 10 15:11 ipva-file1.nvram
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 534 Oct 10 15:11 ipva.mf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11227 Oct 10 15:11 ipva.ovf
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The OVF is attached.

Any way to debug it?

PS: Process is smooth with single disk VMs.

Thanks for your time!
 

Attachments

I think the issue might be related to IDE Controller. On ESXI, disk were assigned to IDE 0:0, IDE 0:1, IDE 1:0, etc...

For some reason Proxmox seems to not accept it...
 
After adding manuel disks, I get the following error message after adding the 4th IDE disk, my OVF has 4 IDE disks

Parameter verification failed. (400)

ide4: property is not defined in schema and the schema does not allow additional properties
 
The reason is indeed that in Proxmox there are no multiple IDE controllers possible - at least not from the GUI.

I had the same issue with that darn ipva migration. I edited te ovf file that I got from ovftool in two places. Disk 3 and 4 would be on IDE 1:0 and IDE 1:1 in ESXI, respectively. However, it has to go to IDE 0:2 and IDE 0:3 on Proxmox. I picked IDE controller "4" as the parent for all disks. So just change the rasd:AddressOnParent IDs to and the rasd: Parent IDs accordingly:

XML: 
<Item>
        <rasd:AddressOnParent>2</rasd:AddressOnParent>
        <rasd:ElementName>Hard Disk 3</rasd:ElementName>
        <rasd:HostResource>ovf:/disk/vmdisk3</rasd:HostResource>
        <rasd:InstanceID>9</rasd:InstanceID>
        <rasd:Parent>4</rasd:Parent>
        <rasd:ResourceType>17</rasd:ResourceType>
        <vmw:Config ovf:required="false" vmw:key="backing.writeThrough" vmw:value="false"/>
      </Item>
      <Item>
        <rasd:AddressOnParent>3</rasd:AddressOnParent>
        <rasd:ElementName>Hard Disk 4</rasd:ElementName>
        <rasd:HostResource>ovf:/disk/vmdisk4</rasd:HostResource>
        <rasd:InstanceID>10</rasd:InstanceID>
        <rasd:Parent>4</rasd:Parent>
        <rasd:ResourceType>17</rasd:ResourceType>
        <vmw:Config ovf:required="false" vmw:key="backing.writeThrough" vmw:value="false"/>
      </Item>

However I still don't get it to boot afterwards ... it's stuck on "Booting from Hard disk" ...
 
Mike Litoris said:
The reason is indeed that in Proxmox there are no multiple IDE controllers possible - at least not from the GUI.

I had the same issue with that darn ipva migration. I edited te ovf file that I got from ovftool in two places. Disk 3 and 4 would be on IDE 1:0 and IDE 1:1 in ESXI, respectively. However, it has to go to IDE 0:2 and IDE 0:3 on Proxmox. I picked IDE controller "4" as the parent for all disks. So just change the rasd:AddressOnParent IDs to and the rasd: Parent IDs accordingly:

XML: 
<Item>
        <rasd:AddressOnParent>2</rasd:AddressOnParent>
        <rasd:ElementName>Hard Disk 3</rasd:ElementName>
        <rasd:HostResource>ovf:/disk/vmdisk3</rasd:HostResource>
        <rasd:InstanceID>9</rasd:InstanceID>
        <rasd:Parent>4</rasd:Parent>
        <rasd:ResourceType>17</rasd:ResourceType>
        <vmw:Config ovf:required="false" vmw:key="backing.writeThrough" vmw:value="false"/>
      </Item>
      <Item>
        <rasd:AddressOnParent>3</rasd:AddressOnParent>
        <rasd:ElementName>Hard Disk 4</rasd:ElementName>
        <rasd:HostResource>ovf:/disk/vmdisk4</rasd:HostResource>
        <rasd:InstanceID>10</rasd:InstanceID>
        <rasd:Parent>4</rasd:Parent>
        <rasd:ResourceType>17</rasd:ResourceType>
        <vmw:Config ovf:required="false" vmw:key="backing.writeThrough" vmw:value="false"/>
      </Item>

However I still don't get it to boot afterwards ... it's stuck on "Booting from Hard disk" ...
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did you get this to work?. Im trying the same with vsim-netapp..
 
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