- #CONVERT VIRTUALBOX VM TO VMWARE ESXI DRIVER#
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But on Jessie machines this is not the case.
#CONVERT VIRTUALBOX VM TO VMWARE ESXI DRIVER#
When you move Squeeze machines, the virtio driver is automatically loaded on boot time and the new disk is recognized immediately and root can be booted without a hitch. We also moved from E1000 or VMXNET3 network controllers to virtio which didn't made any problems at all.įor the disk controllers we had a little wrinkle on Jessie machines. In our case we successfully migrated Debian Squeeze and Jessie machines from ESXi to Proxmox and from LSI SAS disk controllers to virtio. You could recreate the VM again with a smaller logical volume size if you have scarce disk resources.Īfter successful copying the image just start the new VM! Additional Informations about disk controllers and other hardware So you can see that the raw disk image filled up the logical volume by about 83%. Please check the "Mapped size" value: ~ # lvdisplay In our case it's /tmp /tmp # dd if=.raw | pv -s 6G | dd of=/dev/pve/vm-117-disk-1Īfterwards you can check the fillup of the logical volume again. Run the following command in the folder where your raw disk image lies. Since dd doesn't provide a progress bar itself, i've installed pv and gave it the size of the image file, so we have a progress bar while copying the data. Copying the raw disk to the LVM Logical Volume LV UUID n17mvl-A7MC-KuaY-I8As-Xlzc-R5kc-PlXU33 It should be something like 101 or 112 depending on how much VMs you've already created.īack on the commandline check the exact logical volume name in the LVM where we want to copy the VMs raw disk into. Please remember the VM id from the new Proxmox VM. The latter is rather important as it should be at least the same size as the old VM, for safety reasons maybe a bit larger. So just create one with the same amount of RAM, CPU and disk size. The next step is to recreate the ESXi VM on the Promox host again.
Please keep in mind that you now need the VM's disk size twice for the second image! Recreate the VM on Proxmox This can be done directly on the Proxmox host using qemu-img: /tmp # qemu-img convert -flat.vmdk -O raw. Since we want to have the disk contents and all of it's partitions in the logical volume later, we have to migrate the vmdk file to a RAW disk image first. Choose another folder if it doesn't fit in tmp.
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Please keep in mind, that you need enough free space in /tmp before copying over the VM. The vmdk file will now be copied over from the ESXi to the tmp folder of the Proxmox server. The actual name of the datastore datastore1 can be different on your system. tmp # scp :/vmfs/volumes/datastore1//-flat.vmdk -flat.vmdk This would result in multiple vmdk files you first have to merge together. I also assume that you have flat disks so they're not thin provisioned. After the VM has been shutdown or stopped, pull the vmdk file over. You have to stop the VM on ESXi first otherwise you have inconsistencies in the vmdk disk file but ESXi doesn't allow scp'ing the file over with an error Device or resource busy.
#CONVERT VIRTUALBOX VM TO VMWARE ESXI PASSWORD#
We could now create a rsa-keypair for ssh but as we already had separate users on the ESXi machine, it was easier to just use password authentication for pulling the vmdk files over to proxmox. If not, you have to use sudo if necessary. Copying the vmdk disk files to ProxmoxĪt first we assume that you have a ESXi Host running at 10.10.10.2 and a Proxmox Host (i assume v4.x with Debian Jessie) on 10.10.10.3.īecause you need root right for the later dd command, i assume you're root all the time. I'll show you the solution here as well as a wrinkle we stumbled on. The problem however was, how do we migrate vmdk disk files to a logical volume? I really like the idea, that each virtual machine has it's own logical volume on the bare metal disk which is much easier to maintain with the hosts LVM.
Also Proxmox allows us to use containers and cluster-based migrations if we want to.Ī problem we ran into was, that we had to migrate some ESXi VMs with their vmdk file disks to the new LVM-Thin-based storage method introduced in Proxmox. We have always used Debian-based VMs so KVM was a logical decision. We evaluated different solutions and got stuck with Proxmox and it's KVM virtualization. Recently we decided to move away from VMWare ESXi because we want to scale out but don't want to buy expensive licenses just for virtualization.