Errors migrating from vm-ware to proxmox

[Alex-VE]

Hi,
I'm a new user of proxmox and first I would like to thank the proxmox team for this very impressive and powerfull software.

I'm expecting some errors during a migration from a vm-ware windows xp to a proxmox kvm.

I follow this "how-to" http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migration_of_servers_to_Proxmox_VE :
I remove the vm-ware tools from my virtual machine, I change the registry to make the VM botable from an IDE disk with "mergeid" (http://www.proxmox.com/downloads/proxmox-ve/misc/59-mergeide) and I create a new kvm with a qcow2 disk from proxmox.
With vmware-vdiskmanager I change my vmdk disk to a single growable file (..\VMware workstation\vmware-vdiskmanager.exe -r winxp.vmdk -t 0 winxp.vmdk
(I don't know if this step is need in my case).

I upload the new vmdk file to my proxmox server and use this command to convert vmdk to qcow2.
qemu-img convert -f vmdk winxp.vmdk -O qcow2 winxp.qcow2
I make my proxmox virtual machine bootable from the new winxp.qcow2 file and I expect this error:

"Booting from Hard Disk...
Error booting operatin system"


This is my pveversion -v:

pve-manager: 1.8-15 (pve-manager/1.8/5754)
running kernel: 2.6.32-4-pve
pve-kernel-2.6.32-4-pve: 2.6.32-32
qemu-server: 1.1-30
pve-firmware: 1.0-11
libpve-storage-perl: 1.0-17
vncterm: 0.9-2
vzctl: 3.0.24-1pve4
vzdump: 1.2-11
vzprocps: 2.0.11-2
vzquota: 3.0.11-1dso1

Some helps?

Thank you

 

[tom]

looks like you do not installed right, you miss some packages, just run:

apt-get install install proxmox-ve-2.6.32

and post again 'pveversion -v'

 

[Alex-VE]

Thank you!
I just install de proxmox-ve, this is my 'pveversion -v'

pve-manager: 1.8-15 (pve-manager/1.8/5754)
running kernel: 2.6.32-4-pve
proxmox-ve-2.6.32: 1.8-32
pve-kernel-2.6.32-4-pve: 2.6.32-32
qemu-server: 1.1-30
pve-firmware: 1.0-11
libpve-storage-perl: 1.0-17
vncterm: 0.9-2
vzctl: 3.0.24-1pve4
vzdump: 1.2-11
vzprocps: 2.0.11-2
vzquota: 3.0.11-1dso1
pve-qemu-kvm: 0.14.0-3
ksm-control-daemon: 1.0-5

After installing the proxmox-ve, I try to do again the procedure, but I still have the same problem...
"Booting from Hard Disk...
Error booting operatin system"

 

[tom]

now looks better, but you still got some old packages. run 'apt-get upgrade'.
see also http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Downloads#Update_a_running_Proxmox_Virtual_Environment_to_1.8

regarding the error: can you run fresh installed VM´s? If yes, I suggest you try to migrate by using clonezilla live cd´s.