missing operating system

[Francesco04]

Hi everyone, sorry if I'm using the forum section too much, but I managed to import a virtual machine from Vmware 7 to proxmox only that now when I start the machine from proxmox it fails to start the operating system. the virtual machine settings are:

- 2 GB RAM
- 20 GB storage
- Debian 10 64bit
- Host CPU

I left the rest of the options as default. How could I solve it?

Thanks for your help

 

[gfngfn256]

- 20 GB storage

Not sure what you mean by this storage. If you imported the VM from Vmware, you should have a complete bootable drive included in the VM.

So that someone can actually help you, could you provide the output (in CODE tags, </> above) of:

qm config {VMID}
# replacing {VMID} with the actual VM's ID no

 

[Francesco04]

storage indicates how large the entire virtual machine created is overall

 

[gfngfn256]

storage indicates how large the entire virtual machine created is overall

This is neither helpful nor descriptive.

Is this the VM you are talking about in this other post? It appears to have a disk size of 60.0 GiB (excluding the efidisk of 4.00 MiB).

IDK why you don't provide the output I requested above. Until then I don't think anybody is going to be able to help you.

 

[Francesco04]

This is neither helpful nor descriptive.

Is this the VM you are talking about in this other post? It appears to have a disk size of 60.0 GiB (excluding the efidisk of 4.00 MiB).

IDK why you don't provide the output I requested above. Until then I don't think anybody is going to be able to help you.

no, the one from the other pots is another machine that I had tested. The second thing is that I don't know where to put my hands to answer what you asked me

 

[gfngfn256]

The second thing is that I don't know where to put my hands to answer what you asked me

Either connect to the host via SSH & enter the above command, or in the GUI select the node & then Shell (second column).

 

[Francesco04]

Either connect to the host via SSH & enter the above command, or in the GUI select the node & then Shell (second column).

ok

 

[Francesco04]

Either connect to the host via SSH & enter the above command, or in the GUI select the node & then Shell (second column).

ok done and now ?

 

[gfngfn256]

Could you post output from when you start the VM

 

[Francesco04]

 

[gfngfn256]

So in fact your VM is booting, but is entering to the GRUB menu. You will have to search for Debian 10 solutions that boots into grub.

 

[waltar]

Try re-connecting disk as ide (or sata) instaed of scsi (...) type.

 

[Francesco04]

So in fact your VM is booting, but is entering to the GRUB menu. You will have to search for Debian 10 solutions that boots into grub.

ok so I have to try booting it from GRUB. Thanks so much for your help

 

[Francesco04]

Try re-connecting disk as ide (or sata) instaed of scsi (...) type.

and how can i get it ?

 

[waltar]

Select in webui left your vm 105, stop it (right mouse), in the middle select Hardware, select "Hard disk", see size 16G (!!), select Detach, ok, select Add, select "Hard disk", select other "type" here and select your vm file 105 and size 16G, ok. Try to boot that ...

 

[Francesco04]

Select in webui left your vm 105, stop it (right mouse), in the middle select Hardware, select "Hard disk", see size 16G (!!), select Detach, ok, select Add, select "Hard disk", select other "type" here and select your size 16G, ok. Try to boot that ...

ok

 

[Francesco04]

Select in webui left your vm 105, stop it (right mouse), in the middle select Hardware, select "Hard disk", see size 16G (!!), select Detach, ok, select Add, select "Hard disk", select other "type" here and select your size 16G, ok. Try to boot that ...

wait but by doing this the disk is not erased so what should you boot if the disk is new?

 

[waltar]

No, it's just the same disk with data as before and just switched connection.

 

[Francesco04]

No, it's just the same disk with data as before and just switched connection.

ok i try thanks

 

[Francesco04]

No, it's just the same disk with data as before and just switched connection.

after following the instructions given, the virtual machine automatically restarts infinitely and no operating system starts