Ubuntu server 18.04.3 imported from GCE not working in Proxmox

Jun 30, 2024
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Dear sirs:

We currently are migrating a customer from GCE (Google Compute Engine) to a Datacenter powered by Proxmox.
We have succesfully migrated debian 12, 11 and 10 VM, also Centos 7.0 and Rocky Linux 9.
We are currently migrating 6 machines with Ubuntu server 18.04.3 and we follow the exactly same procedure as the previous machines, which has succeded.
The procedure is:
1. Create an image of the shutdown machine.
2. Export the created image to a .qcow2 format.
3. Import the .qcow2 file into Proxmox using qm.

The problem with the Ubuntu 18.04.3 VM is that when we start the machines, we got a black screen with the message Booting from Hard Disk... (we supplied an image as reference).
We have tested a lot of things, and finally using SystemRescue, we got to start one of the machines, but it started buggy and it seems that the root problem is that Google uses heavily Cloud-Init inside the machine to configure a lot of stuff.
Do you guys have done this before?

Thanks in advance for your kind reply.
 

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