migrated esxi VM Boots to blank screen

[anaxagoras]

I have an older Photon OS VM (vmware version of linux for a docker host) running on esxi. I plan on converting it over to ubuntu server, but all the docker configs are pretty old and would not come up under ubuntu a lot of errors about depreciated commands, so i decided to migrate the machine over. I don't have the time to rebuild the docker stack until after the new year.

the os is running:
Linux photon-machine 5.10.93-6.ph4-esx #1-photon SMP Thu Feb 17 02:54:43 UTC 2022 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I converted all the disk images to raw zfs volumes with no problem. I configured the vm with the vmware pvscsi controller, the the vmware network adapters.

I get a grub screen, and then it boots to a blank screen, i've tried various different display settings, default, spice, vmware all make no difference. The network never comes up, i've tried pinging the configured ip with no luck. I also tried various scsi controllers with no luck

Any idea what I can do here?

 

[albertososa]

I have an older Photon OS VM (vmware version of linux for a docker host) running on esxi. I plan on converting it over to ubuntu server, but all the docker configs are pretty old and would not come up under ubuntu a lot of errors about depreciated commands, so i decided to migrate the machine over. I don't have the time to rebuild the docker stack until after the new year.

the os is running:
Linux photon-machine 5.10.93-6.ph4-esx #1-photon SMP Thu Feb 17 02:54:43 UTC 2022 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I converted all the disk images to raw zfs volumes with no problem. I configured the vm with the vmware pvscsi controller, the the vmware network adapters.

I get a grub screen, and then it boots to a blank screen, i've tried various different display settings, default, spice, vmware all make no difference. The network never comes up, i've tried pinging the configured ip with no luck. I also tried various scsi controllers with no luck

Any idea what I can do here?

You're not alone! I've the same problem. I'm currently migrating my VMs from ESXi and Photon OS VMs doesn't boot. I tried same things as you without results. Did you solved it?

 

[MasterCodeFu]

Just got myself did anyone figure it out ?

Thanks

 

[anaxagoras]

i never solved it, i just recreated the VM's with debian.

 

[romwam]

Same situation here (blank screen after migration and starting VM on Proxmox)
There is a resolution which worked for me (migrate VMWare Photon 5.0 VM from EXSI 7.0.3 to Proxmox 8.2.7):
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/import-efi-based-linux-vms-from-esxi-to-proxmox.108025/post-494062

 

[albertososa]

The problem with Photon OS is the installed kernel. If you install it with the optimized-ESXi kernel, you'll have this error when migrate to Proxmox (obviously). My solution was to install the generic kernel before the migration.