machineglow

Hey Guys, I'm trying to spin up some VMs I had running in VMware workstation 16.x and I'm following the steps here: https://forums.unraid.net/topic/69244-convert-vmware-vm-to-kvm/ but I seem to be getting an issue with starting my VM. The logs don't have any obvious errors and it just hangs on that spice-server bug line. I've tried using the vmdk file, the img file, switching bridges, and vdisk bus.... nothing seems to work. VNC windows says Here's the log output: These VMs are an important part of my NAS migration so I'm kinda dismayed I've run into an issue here. Has anyone seen this before or know of a "better" way I should be converting/running a VMware VM to run on KVM? I tried spinning up a net new windows VM and it also ran into the same error. I don't think it has to do with the source vmdk or .img file but I could be wrong. Did I setup something wrong? I haven't touched any networking settings or anything like that. The only weird thing I'm doing is booting unraid as a virtualbox VM and mounting the drives as rawvmdks. Thanks!

Sorry to dig up this old post but can xen handle split vmdk files? (I currently have a bunch of vmware VMs with split VMDKs running on vmware workstation 16.x) and would like to run the Vm on unraid. Thanks!

Thanks everyone! for the first time in a looong time, I finally have a viable upgrade path for my home nas! Will definitely take advantage of the cyber Monday sale now. hopefully the VMware to KVM migration will be just as smooth!

The filesystem on the drives are simply NTFS. nothing fancy. The drivepool software adds a virtual drive on top of the "pooled" drives and handles writing the files directly to disk. But ultimately, it's just writing files to NTFS. It works similarly to mergerfs. I can pull a drive out and stick it in another windows computer and access the files with no issues. So i guess the question is whether it's easy/straightforward to mount a simple NTFS volume in unraid to copy files from?

After some reading, it does seems like mounting a NTFS drive is possible and slowly copying over files for the migration is doable.... has anyone else done something similar to confirm? My plan is to free up one or two of my drives out of my drivepool and then add them into my initial unraid pool. then mount the NTFS drives and start copying things over and free up another drive from the windows drivepool and then add that to the unraid pool and so forth. Also, just realizing that unraid has to run off of a USB drive? so i guess that means I can potentially not have to touch my windows boot drive if something goes awry and switch back if shit hits the fan? I also need to migrate some VMware VMs which i think is doable.... just have to find a good VMware -> KVM migration process. Anyone have any recommendations?

Hi All! I've been running a NAS with Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials + Stablebit Drivepool with a smattering of 12+ different drives for probably a decade now and want to transition to Unraid using the same hardware (too cheap to buy new, plus it's a decent haswell broadwell platform). My main concern is migrating the data (all on NTFS drives pooled with Stablebit Drivepool similar to mergerfs if I understand it all correctly) to Unarid's volumes after I change the boot drive. So my main question is: Can Unraid mount NTFS volumes and read files from those volumes to copy into whatever parity-backed pool I create in Unraid? Thanks!!!