Migrate VMware (esxi) to Promox

[Cesar Vegas]

Hello friends:

I wonder if maybe someone could share me a manual to migrate vmdk to promox.

I have followed the manual but I have not been able to boot a Windows Server 2012 server.

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migration_of_servers_to_Proxmox_VE

This was my procedure

First i removed vmware-tools, then executed File:Mergeide.zip. for enable IDE. Then copy esxi to proxmox and executed on promox.

# qemu-img convert CLDC4WSPEER01_4-flat.vmdk -O raw CLDC4WSPEER01_4.raw

# dd if=/images/CLDC4WSPEER01_4.raw of=/dev/pv03/vm-101-disk-1

But when start the machine i got boot failed error, blue screen Windows.

Please help me.

Regards,

César

 

[Ebatte]

I'm a new user but I just did the same thing, What worked for me was:

1. Create a new VP in proxmox, do not use Virtio devices when you setup, make this disk format vmdk
2. Copy your existing vmdk to proxmox (/var/lib/vz/images/[your VP number]/
3. In the folder listed in #2 there will already be the vmdk you created in step 1. Rename your windows vmdk to match the name of the vmdk proxmox created (and delete the original)
4. Start the vm and it should work

Once running, you can install the virtio drivers from red hat and add virtio network in proxmox and windows. Finally, I converted the vmdk to raw by moving the disk from lvm to local-lvm in the proxmox web interface.

Good luck.

 

[udo]

Hello friends:

I wonder if maybe someone could share me a manual to migrate vmdk to promox.

I have followed the manual but I have not been able to boot a Windows Server 2012 server.

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migration_of_servers_to_Proxmox_VE

This was my procedure

First i removed vmware-tools, then executed File:Mergeide.zip. for enable IDE. Then copy esxi to proxmox and executed on promox.

# qemu-img convert CLDC4WSPEER01_4-flat.vmdk -O raw CLDC4WSPEER01_4.raw

# dd if=/images/CLDC4WSPEER01_4.raw of=/dev/pv03/vm-101-disk-1

But when start the machine i got boot failed error, blue screen Windows.

Please help me.

Regards,

César

Hi César,
how looks your VM-config?

cat /etc/pve/qemu-server/101.conf

Udo

 

[Paspao]

Anyone has the procedure to move a Linux ESXI VM to a Proxmox container?

 

[udo]

Anyone has the procedure to move a Linux ESXI VM to a Proxmox container?

Hi,
there are not automatic migration possible*, because on the one side you have an full virtul VM, which is bootable on hardware too, and an container use the underlying kernel from the os.
Normaly you start with an blank container and migrate the services you need (like mysql, apache....).

*Perhaps there is such an tool - but I don't know about one.

Udo