VM from drive with installed OS

[micmar]

Hi,
I am trying to create VM from existing drive with installed OS. I have created VM without disk then passthrough a HDD drive (with Ubuntu Server) from old computer. Also made it bootable. Now when I turn the VM on I end up on BusyBox. What can I do to boot it normally? Or is it event a thing to virtualize a drive with installation?

 

[sb-jw]

Please post all messages you receive. It's best to take a screenshot of it. I think you just have to change the disk in the fstab for it to work.

 

[micmar]

Is that enough?

 

[sb-jw]

Can you tell us more about how the system was previously configured? Please also post the VM Config qm config VMID

 

[micmar]

Previously, system was installed on system with dual Intel Xeon X5650 + 16 GB RAM. Now on the same system I have installed PVE and created VM (with 24 vCPU and 16GB RAM) without disks, then passthrough the old drive and made it bootable.
Because of my setup I can't currently post my VM config. If it's needed I can do it In few days.

 

[sb-jw]

The screenshots are from the VM? Do you have an explanation for the RAID6 messages (unfortunately you didn't say anything about this). Are all the necessary hard drives connected (VM Config would be helpful to understand this)?

 

[micmar]

Yes, screenshots are from VM. There wasn't any RAID setup. The original system was set up only using this one hard drive, that I'm trying to passthrough.
Server was using some network shares but I was thinking that shouldn't affect booting.