Hi there friends!
I'm attempting to move off ESXi on a server (surprise, surprise), and one of my VMs is being particularly petulant.
It's a Debian 12 VM, running a pretty standard LAMP stack, set up to boot with UEFI.
I tried moving it with the ESXi Import function, and when I did, it sends me to the EFI shell. Manually selecting the boot drive doesn't seem to help, either. I then tried using Veeam to do a backup/restore from one ESXi host to another...and it starts up just fine when I boot the VM off the second ESXi host after a backup/restore...but when I do a Veeam Backup/Restore to Proxmox, it again fails to boot.
I've attempted deleting and recreating the EFI boot drive, but that didn't seem to help, either.
In this particular case, I can *probably* do a data migration to a native Proxmox VM, but I figure that it's equally a good test case, as it likely won't be the last time I face this issue, so if there's a solution that is known, I'd be interested to read about it.
Thank you for your time and attention!
I'm attempting to move off ESXi on a server (surprise, surprise), and one of my VMs is being particularly petulant.
It's a Debian 12 VM, running a pretty standard LAMP stack, set up to boot with UEFI.
I tried moving it with the ESXi Import function, and when I did, it sends me to the EFI shell. Manually selecting the boot drive doesn't seem to help, either. I then tried using Veeam to do a backup/restore from one ESXi host to another...and it starts up just fine when I boot the VM off the second ESXi host after a backup/restore...but when I do a Veeam Backup/Restore to Proxmox, it again fails to boot.
I've attempted deleting and recreating the EFI boot drive, but that didn't seem to help, either.
In this particular case, I can *probably* do a data migration to a native Proxmox VM, but I figure that it's equally a good test case, as it likely won't be the last time I face this issue, so if there's a solution that is known, I'd be interested to read about it.
Thank you for your time and attention!