Import vmware image - new!

Cecil

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So I've looked at a ton of guides on this and they all want to make cows (qcow files) but I'm using lvm-thin on proxmox 5 which no longer does qcow I believe..

So I found a guide that says to just extract the ova file and then use the command: qm importovf

No problemo, I have a usb drive attached already, I used sftp to upload the extracted files, ran the command: qm importovf 2010 watchguard-dimension_2_1_1_U2_signed.ovf local-lvm

Nice.. all worked it created a new VM, I had to change the ram from 2mb to 2gb and added a e1000 network adaptor, and START! but then I get:

"Gave up waiting for root device.
ALERT! /dev/disk/by-label/wgrd.root does not exist. Dropping to shell

So I figured hmm okay upon closer inspection it created the disks exactly to their min size, 2.33gb and a few kb for the second disk.

I tried the entire thing again this time after more reading I did:
qm importovf 2020 watchguard-dimension_2_1_1_U2_signed.ovf local-lvm --format raw
and the resized the disks by adding 100gb to each.

Same error :(

I'm not sure what to do next, it looks like the disks are not detected as devices at all, I definitely see the disks in the lvm storage but when I try to see them in the shell after the error there is nothing under /dev/ that corresponds to a disk at all.
Nothing in /dev/mapper either :(

Please help, I can't find any updated guides on this.
 
I stumbled upon this guide this morning that's designed for lvm-thin storage!
Maybe proxmox documentation can include something like this as well?
https://www.sysorchestra.com/2017/0...to-proxmox-kvm-with-lvm-thin-logical-volumes/

Anyway it gave me the exact same result :( I'm not sure what to do next. I've googled the error a million times and it's never in a VM setting and seems to be something wrong with the boot loader or something :(

Anyone have any ideas of what I can do to try and fix this?

*EDIT*
I found my problem!! The disks were created as Scsi by default, i detached them and added them back as SATA and now it boots! :D
 
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