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. 

Edited November 2, 20187 yr by cogliostro

8 hours ago, cogliostro said:

 

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. 

 

This sounds like a reasonable solution. But I would plan on an entire weekend, not 8 hours.  That way if it only takes 8 hours, everyone wins.
 

Yes we have the weekend for this. But still im struggeling with the createt kvm package from unraid. When i download this file to an local pc i have no clue how to use the .img file to get it running. 

So, no one has any idea how to move the .img to an runnable vm to use with another pc ?

Can the destination where you want to run this VM handle the .img format?    If not you might want to convert it to a format that can be handled (e.g. .vdi for VirtualBox).   You then simply copy the vdisk file to the target system, define a new VM there and attach the vdisk to that new definition.   I regularly swap some vdisk files between KVM and VirtualBox using the .vdi format.

 

BTW:   KVM on UnRAID is quite happy with using the .vdi type vdisk directly (as well as several other vdisk formats).   However the GUI does not offer these additional options to be selected via drop down, but is quite happy if you provide the full path to the .vdi file.

I am trying to do something similar.  I want to try out unRaid and see if it meets my needs, but I can't get Virtual Box to recognize the USB install disk as a drive to boot from, it is looking for an iso or something.  Did you figure out how to install unRaid in Virtual Box?  If so, do you have steps or anything on how i can get it to install?