July 15, 20214 yr I am trying to import a couple VMs that are vmdk. I used seabios as that seems to be what is recommended for vmdks and OVMF did not work at all. Anyway, it tells me there is no bootable disk. If I convert the vmdk to img using qemu-img it will boot but just go through the repair options and wont boot into Windows. I tried setting it to SATA, VirtIO, SCSI. Pretty sure I tried them all. I've done this before but I don't know what I'm missing. Any ideas? Perhaps I should try qcow2?
July 15, 20214 yr If they were in vmware, you can try to change the hardware compatibility version to a newer one (sorry I don't remember the exact entry name) in vmware, save and then try to boot it in qemu. Ovmf works for uefi boot, seabios with legacy boot. If the vmdk has an efi partition boot with ovmf, if it doesn't use seabios.
July 16, 20214 yr Author I converted it to qcow2, left it as OVMF, and put it as SATA and it seems to work fine now. EDIT: spoke to soon. it only worked for one VM. I don't know why the other isn't working. It's the same config. Edited July 16, 20214 yr by bobbintb
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