[PVE-User] Migration VM from VMWare 5 (.vmdk) to Proxmox

Brian :: bc at iptel.co
Wed Mar 30 11:13:41 CEST 2016


have you other KVM VMs running on this host? This sounds like the cpu
extensions necessary aren't available / BIOS enabled on the box.


On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 8:21 AM, Edgardo Ghibaudo
<edgardo.ghibaudo at provincia.biella.it> wrote:
> I converted successfully the Linux guest using:
> /qemu-img convert SRV.vmdk -O qcow2 SRV.qemu /
> When I try to startup the VM in Proxmox I obtain the following error
> message:
>
>    /Running as unit 101.scope./
>    /Could not access KVM kernel module: No such file or directory/
>    /failed to initialize KVM: No such file or directory
>
>    /
>
> Edgardo
>
>
> Il 29/03/2016 16:12, Antoine Jacques de Dixmude ha scritto:
>>
>> That's why I linked the documentation for Windows AND Linux (since you did
>> not give any details).
>>
>> There is plenty of guide on the internet. Like these:
>>
>> http://blog.bodhizazen.net/linux/convert-vmware-vmdk-to-kvm-qcow2-or-virtualbox-vdi/
>>
>> Since your vmdk seems to be a flat file, you essentialy need this command
>> :
>> qemu-img convert SRV-flat.vmdk -O qcow2 SRV.qemu
>>
>> On 03/29/2016 04:05 PM, Edgardo Ghibaudo wrote:
>>>
>>> I need to migrate a VMware ESXi 5 _LINUX guest_.
>>> In the VMware environment I have 6 files:
>>>     SRV-flat.vmdk
>>>     SRV.nvram
>>>     SRV.vmdk
>>>     SRV.vmsd
>>>     SRV.vmx
>>>     SRV.vmxf
>>>
>>> Can you show the right procedure to do the migration ?
>>>
>>> Edgardo
>>>
>>> Il 29/03/2016 15:45, Antoine Jacques de Dixmude ha scritto:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migration_of_servers_to_Proxmox_VE#VMware_to_Proxmox_VE_.28KVM.29
>>>>
>>>> On 03/29/2016 03:39 PM, Edgardo Ghibaudo wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a VM running in VMWare 5.
>>>>> I would like to migrate this VM to Proxmox 4.1
>>>>> Do you have some suggestions ....
>>>>>
>>>>> Edgardo
>>>>>
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