VM boot issue VMware ESXi migration to Proxmox

bL4w3r

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Good afternoon,

I have a problem booting a Windows Server 2012 that I have migrated with the ‘Proxmox’ option from VMWare ESXi. When I boot the virtual machine, it doesn't seem to initialise and sends me to the recovery process.

I have tried changing the CPU type, the SCSI driver, installing the VirtoO drivers, but to no avail.

Has this ever happened to anyone?

PD: I attach screenshot about my issue and VM configuration.
 

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The one single 2012(R2 to be precise) VM that we have/had also had a lot of trouble migrating and installing drivers and such.
We currently have the drive set to sata (not scsi0 like in your screenshot) and with driver-signature check disabled during boot (but according to one post [1] that can be fixed with a different set of drivers, maybe those drivers installed before migration help for you as well?).

First of all, do you still have that ESX/W2012-server?
And do you have the option to migrate through other methods, for example a bare-metal recovery using an ISO on the VM's migrated hardware?

[1] https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/server-2012r2-from-xen.151053/#post-683421
 

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