Another issue importing existing VM


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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?

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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.

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