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Qemu-img convert -f vmdk /mnt/usb/windows-server/windows-server.vmdk -O qcow2 /var/lib/vz/images/100/windows-server.qcow2 In my case, the vmdk file was located in /mnt/usb/windows-server/ You should see the contents of the USB drive.

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Disabling the network adapters will avoid potential IP conflicts if you will start the physical server back into Windows after you have your new virtual server running. Once the VMware converter has completed, disable all of the networks adapters on the physical server and shut down. For this guide, we’ll be using 100 as an example. We won’t be using the disk created by Proxmox VE. In the Hard Disk menu, leave everything as default. You’ll want to use similar CPU and memory as the physical system. If you get a blue screen during boot, you should try this step.Ĭreate a new KVM virtual machine.

You won't know if you need this step until starting the Windows VM in the final step. If promoted to convert the disk to Workstation 9.x compatibility, say Yes.

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This allows windows to install additional drivers for the disk controller. vmdk file using VMware Workstation or Player before moving the file to the Proxmox VE server. NOTE: Depending on your hardware, you may need to boot the. It will now convert your physical machine to a. The next screen shows the settings for the virtual machine.Ĭlick on Advanced options, select the Post-conversion tab and make sure ‘Install VMware Tools on the destination virtual machine’ is NOT check.

Select a location for the virtual machine: Browse to the USB or Network drive where the image will be saved.

Name: Enter the desired name for the image.

Select VMware Product: VMware Workstation 8.0.x.

Select destination type: VMware Workstation or other VMware virtual machine.

Specify the powered-on machine: This local machine.

Launch VMware vCenter and use the following settings:

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NOTE Although the final image will be around the same size as the actual amount of data on the server, the Proxmox VE server should have enough free space to fit the total physical disk of the server unless you plan to shrink the windows disks. You may also save to a mapped network share. This guide is using an external USB Hard Drive.

Execute mergeide.reg ( File:Mergeide.zip).

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Download here(version 5.x is Free Software and also free of charge but you need to create an account and login before download).

VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Client Physical (running) Windows server to Proxmox VE (KVM) using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Client (V5)

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Windows will install all needed drivers automatically, just the Intel NIC drivers for e1000 must be loaded from ISO (I got one big driver ISO from Intel containing all NIC drivers).

After success (the wizard just copies the data, means I got a 80 GB disk but only 5 GB data on it so it was just a few minutes for the whole process on a gigabit network) just change the boot device to the hard disk and start the VM.

Now enter all commands from the wizard on the source server tells you (configure network and request the copy process).

Become root and run fdisk (fdisk /dev/sda/) to make sure that sda is here, exit fdisk with 'w'.

On the Proxmox VE host, prepare a KVM guest, make sure you got a big enough IDE disk assigned (add 1 GB extra to be on the safe side) and also boot this KVM guest with the live CD and execute a shell.

Now, boot the physical host with Clonezilla, go for beginner mode and select device - device and then remote, just follow the wizard.

Prepare the source host, make sure that you have standard IDE drivers enabled (for WinXP/Win2003 use the mergeide.reg ( File:Mergeide.zip) ), for W2k I followed this link (solution 2 worked for me):.

This method is fast, reliable and OS independent as it uses live CDs. Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) Migration of physical servers to Proxmox VE Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) Migration of virtual machines and containers from other hypervisors to Proxmox VE Physical-to-Virtual (P2V)įollow these steps to do a P2V migration and turn a physical machine into a Proxmox VE virtual machine that uses Qemu and KVM. There are various ways to migrate existing servers to Proxmox VE. 2.2.3.2 Move the image to the Proxmox VE Server.2.2.2 Prepare location to save local image.