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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hi
all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>We
need to migrate a physical OpenSuse 11.2 server to our Proxmox server.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I
have tried different things according to a couple of articles but none of these
methods worked for us.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<pre><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I have also tried to migrate the server to VMWare ESX and from that migrate to Proxmox but that didn’t work. We have tried it with copying the flat file to Proxmox and importing it into the new machine, but that didn’t work (machine stopped after 2 seconds) and we have tried it by converting the vmdk file to a raw or qcow2 file and importing it after that, but that also didn’t work.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Can anyone tell us what the best way is of migrating a physical OpenSuse 11.2 server to proxmox?<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I have already found the following articles, but they didn’t work out for us (or we did something wrong):<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre
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href="http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migration_of_servers_to_Proxmox_VE">http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migration_of_servers_to_Proxmox_VE</a><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre
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href="http://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/convert-vdi-vmdk">http://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/convert-vdi-vmdk</a><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre
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lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://blog.bodhizazen.net/linux/convert-vmware-vmdk-to-kvm-qcow2-or-virtualbox-vdi/">http://blog.bodhizazen.net/linux/convert-vmware-vmdk-to-kvm-qcow2-or-virtualbox-vdi/</a><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre
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lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/3859-Migration-from-VMWare">http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/3859-Migration-from-VMWare</a><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Does anyone have experience with migrating physical servers to Proxmox?<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Kind
regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Erik van
Ast<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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