VMDK disks from Proxmox not usable on VMWare - No Media error.

MarkLFT

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Aug 31, 2022
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I have exported several VM Disks from our Proxmox server to vmdk. One converted using the GUI by moving the disk to a NAS and selecting vmdk as the destination type, and one using the qemu-img convert command line. One is a Windows VM the other Linux. Both give the same results.

When I create a new VM in both ESXi and using VMWare Workstation, I can see the disks, but when the new VM is booted, it fails to boot, wi the error no media.

I even ran a VMWare compress on the drive to make it a thin disk. The compress worked, but still reporting no media when booting.

What am I missing? Why do these drives not allow me to boot from them in VMWare products?
 

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