[PVE-User] VM migrated from VMWare

[Gilberto Nunes]

Wow... I totaly forgot the OVA process... I'll give it a shot...

2016-04-13 18:44 GMT-03:00 Lindsay Mathieson <lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com>:

> On 14/04/2016 6:32 AM, Alwin Antreich wrote:
>
>> I use qemu-img and convert it to qcow2 or raw disk images, works great
>> without extra steps to take.
>>
>
>
> Yeah, we migrated a bunch of VMWare images, what we finally found worked
> best was:
>
> - remove the vmware guest tools
> - Export the VMS to OVF on an attached external USB drive using the vmWare
> client
>
> - convert the vmdk to qcow2 using qemu-img
>
> - copy into proxmox
>
> - initially add the qcow image as ide
> - add a dummy virtio drive
>
> - boot, install spice-guest tools, reboot as needed
>
> - remove the dummy
> - re-add actual image as virtio
>
> - boot, allow updates to happen
>
>
> Its a tedious and *slow* process, but it works.
>
>
>
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> Lindsay Mathieson
>
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