[PVE-User] moving a vmware machine into proxmox

[Alex Chekholko]

>From the Windows point of view, the hardware changed, check in device
manager that all devices are there?  In the service manager, make sure the
relevant services started up?

Also, just to double-check, did the original VM have only one disk? If it
had more than one, you just need to copy the vmdk and import it the same
way and attach it to the new VM.


On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 8:19 AM Leandro Roggerone <leandro at tecnetmza.com.ar>
wrote:

> Hi guys , I successfully moved a vm from my ESXi server to my proxmox.
> This is what I did:
> I created a backup with guettoVCB tool.
> SCP the vmdk disk images into my proxmox local partition.
> Created a VM
> convert those images into qcow2 doing:
>  qm importdisk 117 ESXi_1-000003-flat.vmdk  local-lvm -format qcow2
>  Then I added this new disk image into my vm 117.
>
> After turning this machine on wich contains a windows server , following
> happened.
> Machine is ok, I can login and so.
> but
> There is sql server wich is not running.
> After trying to open sql server configuration manager, im getting the "sql
> server can not connect to wmi provider" error message.
>
> I know Im providing not enough information but this is perhaps some well
> know issue.
> I already confirmed that after rebooting original machine on ESXi server ,
> there is no manual action required to have all process running.
> So , this can be perhaps something related with licence.
> Any feedback / feelling about this ?
> I need to move this machine without outage nor customer action.
> Regards.
> Leandro.
>
>
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