virtualize bare-metal (win)

[TErxleben]

I'm in the process of virtualizing bare metal installations. That works quite well too.
To do this, I pulled a vhdx file from the affected machines and imported it into Proxmox using qm import.... Also runs. However, the process in Proxmox creates a 1TB drive (the physical size of the original disk), even though only 98GB is used there. Now I've fought hard to get rid of these unnecessary 900GB (GParted et.al.). I can't manage it. Has anyone ever been in this valley of tears and might have a solution or idea?
Maybe its possible to export only used partitions from source?

 

[sw-omit]

Would using the Resize-VHD command perhaps work on the vhdx before importing it?

Resize-VHD -Path c:\BaseVHDX.vhdx -ToMinimumSize

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/hyper-v/resize-vhd?view=windowsserver2022-ps

You might have to first reduce the size of the C-partition inside the .vhdx to something like 100GB, but I'd say try without first.

 

[TErxleben]

Would using the Resize-VHD command perhaps work on the vhdx before importing it?

Resize-VHD -Path c:\BaseVHDX.vhdx -ToMinimumSize

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/hyper-v/resize-vhd?view=windowsserver2022-ps

You might have to first reduce the size of the C-partition inside the .vhdx to something like 100GB, but I'd say try without first.

Thanks for the tip about resize VHD.
I will try it with the next patients.
Now HDclone.x5 helped me within the Win VM.

 

[TErxleben]

resize-vhd is unkowned on my Win10 (home) workstations.
So I startet the 1TB virtual machine, clean it up and copied it to a second virtual disk via hdclone x5. This works.