VMWARE windows VM migration to proxmox fails

[perja11]

Hello,

I have been following the notes given at proxmox wiki site. All I am trying to use is OVFTOOL to copy the VM image from VMWARE ESXI to the Promox local-LVM

Below are the steps i followed in getting VM from VMWARE :

1 ) vftool vi://root@<ip-of-esxi>/<name-of-a-virtual-machine> .

2 ) qm importovf 200 /tmp/exported-vm.ovf local-lvm (It imported into local native disk)

3 ) qm set 130 --bios ovmf

4 ) sed -i 's/scsi/sata/g' /etc/pve/qemu-server/130.conf

After completing all the steps, when I booted the VM image from proxmox. It got stuck with the below message :

it comes to shell prompt and not even booting further.

Is this the correct procedure I have followed or anything else needs to be looked into

Note : I installed proxmox node on a bare metal(Dell Server R820) and not connected to any external storage. It is using its own hard-disk.

 

[Dominic]

Hi,

I think the message is missing? Have you tried using Seabios already? Maybe using OVMF/UEFI is bad in this specific case.

 

[Lorenz.S]

I think, I found your problem: You imported VM 200, but set the bios for VM 130

The wiki page is written a bit unfavorable, I'll put something like <VMID> there...