Happy quarantining everyone!

 

I'm looking at migrating from my esxi 6.0 rig to kvm. At the moment UnRaid runs inside esxi as a vm. 

 

So in prep for this, I figured I run a few simple tests. I backed up my UnRaid Flash to a folder on a physical machine. 

 

I converted a couple of vms from within the unraid vm via the qemu command to convert from vmdk to raw. 

 

shutdown esxi, and booted directly to unraid on baremetal. 

 

ran a couple of configs (network, etc) started up the VMs...created a new vm, etc. 

 

All worked great. But i'm not ready to move over just yet. weekend ran out, and need to revert back.

 

Simply shut the server down, took the flash over to my physical machine, deleted all the files (not format) - and copied from my backup. 

 

All good so far. 

 

Unraid boots up, and now shows the VMs that I was playing around with. 

 

QUESTIONS: 

0. who is your daddy and what does he do?! (sorry ignore this one). 

 

1. How does it know that? If I replaced all the files on the flash? 

 

2. Also Windows machine was asking for Activation, because of the obvious hardware changes - when I eventually do it, will it activate, or will I basically give up my windows license? 

 

3. The linux vms that I have are running things like ConnectWise, PiHole and OpenVPN - all of which I think are better to just start over and migrate configuration as opposed to converting the disks.... thoughts? 

 

4. when creating a linux vm - i saw the option to mount an unraid share... i tried that, but couldn't find it mounted anywhere. I could still go to network and navigate to it, but that's not exactly what I was looking for. I thought it'd show up as a folder or something... where does it end up? 

 

5. finally - i can probably look this up - but the linux mint VM kept complaining about the display driver... but I couldn't see how to update it... how do i get it to use the libvirt drivers? 

 

Sorry - lots of nooby quesitons here. 

 

My processor is an ancient Intel i7 960 ... yes, it's 10 yrs old, but still works great with multiple vms running. I just want to move off esxi since they stopped supporting it after the last update. Plus I figure remove one extra layer of abstraction can't hurt. 

 

 

 

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