Need help with vmware migration

[Laurent COOPER]

Hello.

I've installed a proxmox 6.0 pve in our infrastructure to get rid of our VmWare Vsphere servers
Now, I'm trying to migrate from vmware to proxmox the old computers we had

I should be not so far but it doesn't work, and I don't know why

Here are the parts I did so far :

1. transfered via NFS the disk-flat.vmdk and disk.vmdk to a directory in proxmox
2. converted the disk-flat.vmdk to disk.raw via qemu-img (qemu-img convert -O raw)
3. We use ZFS. I created a machine that uses ZFS pool and created a same size disk
4. did a dd to transfer raw disk to zfs pool :
   dd if=disk.raw of=/dev/zvol/zfs-datas/vm-100-disk-0 bs=1M
5. Houra ! the disk is copied. I can see /dev/zvol/zfs-datas/vm-100-disk-0-part1, I can mount it, and look at the files.
6. I can look at the partition with fdisk /dev/zvol/zfs-datas/vm-100-disk-0. The first partition is bootable

Disk /dev/zvol/zfs-datas/vm-100-disk-0: 160 GiB, 171798691840 bytes, 335544320 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 8192 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 8192 bytes / 8192 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xa80c0f85

Device                              Boot Start       End   Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/zvol/zfs-datas/vm-100-disk-0p1 *     2048 335544319 335542272  160G  7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

But when I try to boot, it repeatidly says to me "no bootable device found"

I tried to add a directory storage and use the vmdk and flat-vmdk with vmware storage disk type. Same thing : no bootable device

I don't know how to do ...

TIA for your answers

 

[Alwin]

See here for tips & tricks on how to migrate from VMware to Proxmox. Possibly the difference in blocksize could have an effect.
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migration_of_servers_to_Proxmox_VE#VMware_to_Proxmox_VE_.28KVM.29

 

[spirit]

do you have tried with uefi ?

 

[danielb]

Instead of manually converting the image and injecting it with dd, I'd recommend using qm importdisk (see man qm) which will do nearly everything required

 

[alexskysilk]

I tried to add a directory storage and use the vmdk and flat-vmdk with vmware storage disk type. Same thing : no bootable device

You need to make sure your CORRECT disk is set in the vm boot order: