How did you get the vhd onto your unraid server from acronis?

How did you get the vhd onto your unraid server from acronis?

Just dropped it across from my pc via disk share. It converted without errors other than, as i say,  not accepting the -O param.

 

It shows in the vm details as filetype 'vpc'??

So after copying it over, you did the convert command to convert from vhd to raw?

So after copying it over, you did the convert command to convert from vhd to raw?

I did the convert minus the -O parameter. If i remember rightly the 'raw' came after that, yes. I'm going to go through the whole exercise again just to retrace my steps. Any reason why that option isn't sticking?

hi guys

 

sorry to hijack - but  i am planning to do the same.

 

want to convert a trusty old download pc over to a KVM.

 

in this scenario the windows including download softwares (sickbeard etc etc) s using about 40GB, with the physical drive being 2TB.

 

is it possible to do the raw conversion for the used data only? i don't want to sacrifice a full 2TB of space on my unraid machine, especially since 90% of that wont be used.

 

any ideas?

 

 

my one thought i had now while typing, is if the raw is not capable of creating a "thin" image, is to use gparted on the original machine to change the partition size - but i would like to avoid meddling with the working hardware.

Did this 'thinning down' of the host windows disk so that unRAID allocates minimum space to any new vm image ever get resolved?

Did this 'thinning down' of the host windows disk so that unRAID allocates minimum space to any new vm image ever get resolved?

There is nothing specific in KVM to do this.  I think you need to solve this at the Windows level before trying to convert it to a Vdisk.  It could probably be solved by booting the PC off something like a gparted disk and using that to shrink down the partition size on the Windows disk.

 

When you create a vdisk on unRAID you can select a vdisk format that 'grows' only as space is used (e.g. qcow2, vdi) rather than allocating all space up front so that the max logical size and physical space occupied can be different..  However this can only be used with a new VM, not with an existing disk as far s I know.

Thanks for the reply.

 

Something to think about.