typewriter Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 I tried out Proxmox some while ago and created several great working VMs (OSX, WIN, SYNOLOGY) that I would like to be able to import UNRAID which suits much better my needs. Can that be done? Is there any importer tool? Both use KVM but I am not sure if VM config files are compatible. Quote Link to comment
caplam Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 from what i remember i had to rebuild my vms when i switched from proxmox to unraid. Unraid takes raw (img) and qcow2 vdisk files. If you have vmdk you have to convert it with qemu-img. Quote Link to comment
typewriter Posted October 23, 2020 Author Share Posted October 23, 2020 5 minutes ago, caplam said: from what i remember i had to rebuild my vms when i switched from proxmox to unraid. Unraid takes raw (img) and qcow2 vdisk files. If you have vmdk you have to convert it with qemu-img. Did it work without problems? Quote Link to comment
caplam Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 no but i didn't lost data. I had to make several tries because i forgot to save vm definition files You have to rebuild the same vm. In the end i managed to succeed. I had several debian vm and 1 win8 but no macos (these ones are tricky). Quote Link to comment
typewriter Posted October 23, 2020 Author Share Posted October 23, 2020 3 minutes ago, caplam said: no but i didn't lost data. I had to make several tries because i forgot to save vm definition files You have to rebuild the same vm. In the end i managed to succeed. I had several debian vm and 1 win8 but no macos (these ones are tricky). Yes, MacOS is a problem. I tried the method of Spaceinvader One to create a MacOS VM. Worked only once. Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 3 hours ago, caplam said: from what i remember i had to rebuild my vms when i switched from proxmox to unraid. Unraid takes raw (img) and qcow2 vdisk files. If you have vmdk you have to convert it with qemu-img. That's not entirely true. The GUI editor only sees img, but you can manually specify the name of the vmdk in the XML. Just don't make any changes in the GUI editor, it'll blow away your manual edits. Quote Link to comment
typewriter Posted October 23, 2020 Author Share Posted October 23, 2020 1 hour ago, jonathanm said: That's not entirely true. The GUI editor only sees img, but you can manually specify the name of the vmdk in the XML. Just don't make any changes in the GUI editor, it'll blow away your manual edits. I guess that's the problem why I screed up the OSX VMs. Is there any smart way to move the Proxmox VM config.file over to Unraid XML? Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 1 hour ago, typewriter said: Is there any smart way to move the Proxmox VM config.file over to Unraid XML? Sorry, I have no experience with proxmox. Quote Link to comment
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