Migrating xen LVM VMs into Proxmox

FreePenCollector

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Hello experts,

I am currently trying to migrate a couple windows and centos VMs from my xenhost into proxmox.

I have managed to copy over an lv and add it to the pve vg. Editing the tags gets my lv listed under: lvm group storage>content>images but unfortunately not under the hardware tab of a vm as an unused disk, which i assume from this guide it's supposed to be.

"5.- Now, using Proxmox Web Admin, we can delete the disks from the "old VM" and on the new one, we'll have the disks as "unused", so we can add them."


Now I'm guessing that it wont list under the VM i have created in proxmox b/c the configuration doesn't match up quite right; assuming this is the case, how can i create a vm and then later import the lv disk? Or, can I create a vm using the lv disk?

Or is it possible I'm missing a crucial step in converting the lv from xen -> kvm?

I'd be happy with any help you can provide, and will ofc provide whatever outputs will help you. Thank you!
 
Thanks so much for the quick response, this looks like a great, if slightly confusing, guide! (I'm still rather a novice with xen/kvm..)

As I understand, the idea is to create a debian vm under proxmox, scrape out it's innards and replace it with those of the old xen VMs?

Unfortunately I don't see how I could apply this to the windows 2k3 VMs I have, would the principle be the same or should I leave this thread up?
 

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