migration from esxi to proxmox: disk is not recognized

[opkky]

Colleagues,

I am trying to migrate ESXi VM to Proxmox with OVA file without success.

Follow instrucitons https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migration_of_servers_to_Proxmox_VE#VMware

execute:
qm importovf 200 /tmp/exported-vm.ovf local-lvm

VM is created successfully but after start disk is not recognized. Any ideas?

 

[siege801]

Hello,

How did you go with this? I'm trying the same procedure but am finding that the filesystem of my VM is in a very damaged (beyond repair) state. Attempts to run fsck on the disk end up crashing the VM!

I have tried the OVF tool method as per the article OP linked, and I've also tried using the vmdk from ESXi and running:

qemu-img convert -p -O qcow2 myVM.vmdk  myVM.qcow2

qm create 201  --name myVM  \
    --sockets 1 --cores 2 --vcpus 2 --cpu host \
    --memory 2048 \
    --ostype l26 --arch x86_64 \
    --agent enabled=1 \
    --scsihw virtio-scsi-pci \
    --bootdisk scsi0 \
  
qm importdisk 201 /path/to/image/myVM.qcow2 local-lvm --format=qcow2
qm set 201 --scsi0 local-lvm:vm-120-disk-0

Both the OVF Tool method AND the VMDK (qemu-img convert) method land at the same BusyBox / fsck error.

I'm hoping to avoid building the VMs from scratch.