Migration from VMware

[TecScott]

I'm currently starting the migration of several VM's from ESX 6.0 to Proxmox 4.4 and seem to be experiencing some issues.

I've tried several methods to move the data, but all show the same issue

1. qemu-img converting the disk to RAW from VMDK
2. qm importdisk to a PVE 5.0 host then restoring to a PVE 4.4 host
3. FOG cloning the VM and deploying the image on new disk

In the initial 2 VM's I moved (Centos 7) the VM would boot then hang at '[ OK ] Reached target Basic System' for about 3 minutes, it then floods the screen with 'dracut-initqueue[267]: Warning: dracut-initqueue timeout - starting timeout scripts' for about a minute before finally showing '[ *** ] A start job is running for dev-mapp...oot.device (3 min 30s / no limit)' and this will run indefinitely.

I've tried configuring the SCSI Controller Types and this had no effect, the only way I could get the VM to boot was to convert the disk to IDE. The VM is coming from a SCSI controller in VMware.

The /etc/fstab seems to be correct and references mount points by the UUID and /dev/mapper/'s,

Oddly, starting in recovery mode seems to mount the root partition even with SCSI drive.

Anyone had any similar issues?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Alwin]

Are the vmware-tools installed on those VMs? These need to be removed to get the migration completed.

 

[TecScott]

open-vm-tools were installed, and removed prior to the migration.

I've just been able to boot the VM using a SCSI disk by running 'dracut --regenerate-all --force' then 'grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg'. This has so far worked on one Centos VM.