Migration from Vmware Esx 4.0 to Proxmox

[laowolf]

According to wiki page, I am tring to Migrate a windows 2000 server vm (with 2 vmware scsi disk, disk 1 about 300G, disk 3 about 500G) to proxmox.
I reboot the vm with SystemrescuedCD 4.3.1, and run following commands on proxmox server and vm respectively
proxmox server: netcat -w30 -vvnlp 3333 | gzip -dc > /dev/vm-105-disk-1
window 2000 vm: dd if=/dev/sda | gzip -c | nc -w30 -vvn proxmoxipaddress 3333
but I got a intput/output error on the vm screen.

Any clues about the reason error? and how can I supposed to migrate the vmware esx 4.0 vm to proxmox?

 

[mir]

My guess is that you run out of space on the proxmox server.

 

[m.ardito]

and how can I supposed to migrate the vmware esx 4.0 vm to proxmox?

there are other ways, perhaps: qemu-img can convert vmware images to whatever, so you could do that way (I always did this for vmware>proxmox), or you could use sysresccd to use fsarchiver to backup vm and then restore on proxmox (in any case, be sure to use a valid mergeide.reg on the vmware vm before copying/converting, or your vm could not be bootable in proxmox)

Marco

 

[laowolf]

or run out of space on the vmware esx server?
dd if=/dev/sda | gzip -c | nc -w 30 -vvn proxmoxipaddress 3333, is this command requires a lot of memory space or disk space on the vmware esx server?
Can clonezilla solve this problem?

My guess is that you run out of space on the proxmox server.

 

[mir]

you could also drop the gzip part since this writes the entire compressed /dev/sda to disk before transferring with nc. I guess /dev/sda cannot hold itself roughly twice;-)