Convert Ubuntu VM to Proxmox

This is to describe how to convert Ubuntu VM to Proxmox.

VM creation

Following hardware options can be considered

• BIOS: SeaBIOS (Should be able to see Grub menu)
• Machine: Default (i440fx)
• SCSI Controller: VirtIO SCSI (It might not be used as sata0 to be considered for disk)
• Hard Disk (sata0): disk_image_file
• Network Device (net0): vmxnet3=<mac_address> (This is default for VMware, can use other type too)

Convert the VMware disk to Proxmox disk and attach the disk to new VM

qm importdisk 121 ubuntu.vmdk pool240ssd --format qcow2

Attach the disk as sata0.

Boot

After boot up system show a GUI error screen, press Contrl + Alt + F3 to switch to console mode.

Note: Press Shift to active Grub Menu if required

Network

Find out new network interface UUID

nmcli conn

Change NetworkManager file name

cd /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections
mv Wired\ connection\ 1-<old_uuid>.nmconnection Wired\ connection\ 1-<new_uuid>.nmconnection

Update nmconnection file

[connection]
id=<new_interface_name>
uuid=<new_uuid>
type=ethernet
autoconnect-priority=-999
interface-name=<new_interface_name>
permissions=
timestamp=1628151710

[ethernet]
mac-address-blacklist=

[ipv4]
address1=192.168.1.232/24,192.168.1.254
dns=192.168.1.250;8.8.8.8;
dns-search=
method=manual

[ipv6]
addr-gen-mode=stable-privacy
dns-search=
method=disabled

[proxy]

Errors

No login GUI

After boot, only a white screen with error message appears, this was fixed by running apt update and upgrade

First, update /etc/apt/sources.list file, replace all repo URL to old-releases.ubuntu.com

Then run following commands

apt update
apt upgrade -y

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