Is it possible to boot a VM using an existing physical hard drive?

[dax99910]

On my server I originally had ubuntu server installed on a 500GB hard drive. I installed proxmox onto a 500GB m.2 SSD and can see the ubuntu-vg inside the LVM tab on proxmox. Is it possible to just boot straight from that drive or would I need to create a separate Ubuntu VM and transfer my files across?

Just trying to keep my docker containers from my old server

 

[LnxBil]

Is it possible to just boot straight from that drive or would I need to create a separate Ubuntu VM and transfer my files across?

You have to passthrough the disk to a (newly created) VM to get it to work, but need to deregister the LVM volume group first via vgchange -an ubuntu-vg.