migrate hyperv to proxmox raw disk

[blackmetal]

Hello,
i want convert a hyperv virtual machine (it is centos 6) to proxmox but my proxmox use raw disk image and not using qcow2 .. as i see some article on google regarding convert from hyperv to qcow2,
now how can i convert my hyperv export to proxmox raw disk?
thanks

 

[fireon]

Yes it works easy!
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/import-from-xenserver.35767/#post-176160
After that follow the normal mirgation process, drivers, ....
See also:
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Qemu/K...ing_virtual_machines_from_foreign_hypervisors
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migration_of_servers_to_Proxmox_VE

 

[blackmetal]

as i understand in https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/import-from-xenserver.35767/#post-176160 so i should just export vm in hyperv and conbvert it with following command? and then attach it to VM in proxmox ?
qm importdisk 993 Systemcenter_F.vhdx local -format qcow2

but as i said i do not used qcow2 should i change -format options ?

 

[fireon]

but as i said i do not used qcow2 should i change -format options ?

No, this was in our labs. The command is depending on your's.

 

[blackmetal]

do you have any best practice for this?

 

[fireon]

do you have any best practice for this?

Not yet. This was my first importing from hyperV without clonezilla ...

 

[sienar]

I've been testing migrations from Hyper-V to Proxmox lately. I would suggest configuring some Proxmox storage to allow for image file storage, for qcow2 type files. There are limitations to converting the VHDX on a Proxmox host, like not supporting dynamic sized VHDXs. I have quite successfully used this tool - http://www.cloudbase.it/qemu-img-windows/ to do the conversion to qcow2 on the windows hosts. This can save steps like converting the VHDX to fixed size and leaves less work to do on the Proxmox end.

Just do the conversion on the Windows host, create a VM on the Proxmox side using a blank qcow2 for it's storage, copy over the qcow2 from the Windows host and replace the blank one in your new VM. Power it up and finish your normal physical/virtual migration steps.

Once it's up and running, you can then move the disk to raw format storage and you're done. I have done this a few times now with test VMs and it's working well for me.

 

[fireon]

Only for information. You can use every storage format on proxmox. qcow2, raw, zvol, lvm....