P2V via VMware converter

[Guilherme Silva]

Hello everybody,

We are new to Proxmox just have installed Proxmox 4.4 in a test machine an olg ML350 with 4 SCSI 73Gb RAID 5 disks. So we want to P2V an Windows 2003 Srv to Proxmox, We follow this
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migrat...o_Proxmox_VE_.28KVM.29_using_VMware_Converter

But when que try to import do vmdk to Proxmox we have same problems :
- Following the tutorial we try to import the disk to /var/lib/vz/images/<idVM> because the dir does not exists. after some research we find this https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/local-lvm-storage-and-vm-format.27209/ so we find the /dev/pve directory where the dummy disk was created.
- So we try qemu-img convert command with /dev/pve path but the system says that We don´t have sufficient space... The disk from converter have 102Gb and we have 132Gb on Proxmox

We understand that Proxmox is using a LVM-thin volume, so where you advice us to put the converted disk?

Thanks

 

[LnxBil]

Just convert back to the "old" way without lvm thin and have everything in your directory /var/lib/vz and your setup will work:

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Instal....2Fvar.2Flib.2Fvz_.28Proxmox_4.2_and_later.29

Using /dev/pve is wrong, /dev hast device files in it and has only 10 MB (also a virtual filesystem), so insufficient space is correct.

 

[Guilherme Silva]

Hello !

OK We convert back to LVM no thin with the help of this post https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/local-lvm-storage-and-vm-format.27209/page-2 msg from kinetica

And all is ok

Thanks for this great product guys

Bom Natal a Todos!!!!