November 18, 2025Nov 18 I'm just testing on an Unraid Trial to move a physical W11 machine to a VM. Planning on moving our work server to Unraid and a few physical machines to VMs to consolidate down to 1 machine. Also eventually get rid of our Synology and use another Unraid app for that. Anyway I did a W11 backup on the test system then used V2V converter to make the vhdx to a raw image. I moved it onto the array and pointed the VM settings to it and went by the Unraid documentation but the system won't boot. It keeps saying no bootable media and goes into the Unraid VM bios. Am I doing something wrong with the backups and conversions?Also is there a way to make the backups smaller? Like the size of the actual used space and not the HDD capacity? My machines have 500gb SSD's but only use like 100gb. I'd rather not have to have multiple 500gb images that are not doing anything.
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