Issues Importing VMDK VMs to Proxmox

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I copied the standard VMWare disk files (.vmdk, -flat.vmdk, etc.) over and ran them through "qemu-img convert" to convert them to qcow2 format. When booting up the VM, I get the Linux kernel options so it seems to be reading the disk file. But when it comes time to actually boot, it hangs for a minute then I see the following error:
"[ TIME ] Timed out waiting for device dev-mapper-cl\x2dswap.device."

It eventually boots into dracut where the following lines can be seen above the dracut command prompt.
Warning: /dev/cl/root does not exist
Warning: /dev/cl/swap does not exist
Warning: /dev/mapper/cl-root does not exist

Not sure if I'm missing a step somewhere but any help / guidance on the process for migrating VMWare (it's an ESXi 5.5 system) VMs over to Proxmox 7 would be greatly appreciated.
 

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