[SOLVED] Imported ESXi CentOS VM does not boot

[telesteven]

Hi.
I usually import ESXi VMs by exporting them and importing them via qm importovf which works fine with Debian based systems.
Unfortunately this does not work with CentOS systems. After import the VM hangs at "Booting from Hard Disk..."

Is there any way to get more information about what is the problem?

Thanks

 

[jdancer]

For RHEL and derivatives, on the original VM run the following:

# dracut --force --verbose --no-hostonly

 

[telesteven]

Hm, tried this but it didn't changed anything

 

[julyat]

ive met this once but its the bios and uefi kind of problem you might look into that just for sure you got the same bios configuration between esxi and pve and also make sure you did the correct boot order

 

[telesteven]

As far as I can see the bios is set to "EFI" on esxi. But setting Bios to "OVMF (UEFI)" in Proxmox does not solve the issue. When using ESC at boot in Proxmox Guest I even cannot see the disk

 

[telesteven]

Ah ok, I got it. The procedure was much less convenient as I expected.
In short as reference for future me: Creating EFI Disk, detach disk, set to sata, set boot order to disk

 

[RoCE-geek]

For RHEL and derivatives, on the original VM run the following:

# dracut --force --verbose --no-hostonly

Valid even for Hyper-V to Proxmox path (for UEFI Linux VM with VirtIO SCSI Single + SCSI disks + i440fx). Approved.