Hi guys, I‘ve been stuck on a problem and I’m not sure what to do maybe you have some ideas. Let me start first with an example of the current setup.
After i purchased the Pro Version i decided to bring a friend of mine with a small business also to unraid. He has running an Windows Server 2008 R2 on an esxi host. But esxi as an Monster to administrate so i want to safe me and him time by using unraid. Now I decided to Move his main data to unraid. With a fresh 2008 R2 VM. The problem is, we have to keep this Server alive while I startet to setup the new host. Now the prebuilt (small build) is ready to use, you guys know is it possible to run this small installation on something like virtual box ? In the mean time so i can go and create his main Server new. So at least he can work on while I building / modifying his old server for the new os? Do i have to convert the .img file ? And how do i convert it back to run it with unraid again? If you have any experience on this please share.
edit: the original server is a .vmdk file but unfortunately it is an example-flat.vdmk file with 480gb also there is an example.vdmk with only about 1GB file with lots of extensions. So I have no idea what file I would need to convert.
The ideal solution I think was something like to move his new vm to a small temporarily vm host like virtual box on an desktop computer. For something like 8 hours so in the mean time I can make all the preparations.