Help converting Win11 VMware Workstation vmdk to Proxmox.

[jemf]

1. The vmdk image is basically a Win11 Enterprise gold image. No VMWare tools
2. I created a Proxmox VM with TPM, UEFI BIOS
3. I used the following command to convert the 128GB disk image.
qm importdisk 102 vmfilename.vmdk INTEL2TB --format qcow2
4. I then deleted the disk from the Proxmox image I configured in step 1 and attached the newly created image that was created in step 3.
5. Enabled it in options and updated the boot order
6. I enabled secureboot and tried playing with the efi settings but I cant get it to boot. Just a blue screen with inaccessible_boot_device.

Any suggestions? Thank you.


Here is the VMID.conf file:
bios: ovmf
boot: order=virtio0;net0
cores: 2
cpu: x86-64-v2-AES
efidisk0: INTEL2TB:102/vm-102-disk-0.qcow2,efitype=4m,pre-enrolled-keys=1,size=528K
machine: pc-q35-9.0
memory: 16384
meta: creation-qemu=9.0.0,ctime=1721955600
name: psjh
net0: e1000=BC:24:11:C2:ED:63,bridge=vmbr0,firewall=1
numa: 0
ostype: win11
scsihw: virtio-scsi-single
smbios1: uuid=7362dcbe-d580-4010-a911-8caf92f09dfe
sockets: 2
tpmstate0: INTEL2TB:102/vm-102-disk-1.raw,size=4M,version=v2.0
virtio0: INTEL2TB:102/vm-102-disk-2.qcow2,discard=on,iothread=1,size=128G
vmgenid: 2c53f324-fbc0-43e1-bdc1-e2f4e47c910a

 

[jemf]

I think im going to try installing a vanilla Win11 successfully, then add the converted vmdk to see what the results are.

 

[jemf]

Going through the vanilla installation process I found that the drive was not being detected unless I used SATA emu. I did that with my converted vmdk, attached, added TPM and it booted )