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Convert Ubuntu VM to Proxmox

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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

References

Convert VMware VM to Proxmox VM

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Convert VMware VM to Proxmox VM

Create a new VM in Proxmox

Linux

  • Create new VM in Proxmox, and select correct BIOS.

Windows

  • Create new VM in Proxmox, and select OVMF (UEFI).

Remove newly created disk

  • Detach disk
  • Remove detached disk

Convert disk

Run following command to convert vmdk to qcow2

qm importdisk <VM_ID> <Virtual Disk>.vmdk <storage> --format qcow2

Here, VM_ID is a number. After completed a newly created disk appears in VM

Add disk

Ubuntu

Double click the newly created disk, then select VirtIO Block device.

Select Write Back as cache method

RHEL and Windows

Double click the newly created disk, then select SATA device.

Select Write Back as cache method

Start VM and remove VMware Tools

Ubuntu

apt remove --auto-remove open-vm-tools
apt remove --auto-remove xserver-xorg-video-vmware
apt purge open-vm-tools
apt purge open-vm-tools-desktop

RHEL

yum remove open-vm-tools open-vm-tools-desktop

Reboot the server

Migrate TrueNAS VM to Proxmox VM

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Migrate TrueNAS VM to Proxmox VM

After Proxmox installed, I also migrate TrueNAS VM to Proxmox as VM for both Ubuntu VM and Windows 10 VM.

Copy zvol to a file and transfer to Proxmox server

The zpool volume device is located in /dev/zvol/<zpool_name>/<zvol_name>. Create disk image using following command.

dd if=/dev/zvol/pool0/server-xxxxxx of=/tmp/server.raw bs=8m
scp ...

Another way to transfer

dd if=/dev/zvol/.... bs=8192 status=progress | ssh root@proxmox 'dd of=....raw bs=8192'

or

dd if=/dev/zvol/.... bs=8192 status=progress | gzip -1 - | ssh root@proxmox 'dd of=....raw.gz bs=8192'

or

dd if=/dev/zvol/.... bs=8192 status=progress | gzip -1 - | ssh root@proxmox 'gunzip - | dd of=....raw.gz bs=8192'

Transfer raw file into Proxmox server

Create Proxmox VM

  • Create a VM with OVMF (UEFI) if TrueNAS VM is using UEFI

  • Remove VM disk

  • Use following command to import disk

qm importdisk <vm_id> <raw_file> <storage_id>

For example

qm importdisk 100 vm.raw ds1812-vm_nfs1

  • Go to VM hardware page

  • Select unused disk and click Add button to add disk into VM

    • For Linux, select SCSI as controller
    • For Windows, select SATA

  • Select Options => Boot Order to check the iscsi/sata controller

Boot TrueNAS VM

References

Export Virtual Machine from TrueNAS and Import VM to Proxmox
Migration of servers to Proxmox VE
Additional ways to migrate to Proxmox VE

Btrfs Basic

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Btrfs Basic

Status

btrfs device states /app
btrfs fi show /app

Convert raid

Convert to raid0 and remove one disk

btrfs balance start -f -sconvert=single -mconvert=single -dconvert=single /app
btrfs device remove /dev/bcache0 /app

Add disk and convert to raid1

btrfs device add -f /dev/bcache0 /app
btrfs balance start -dconvert=raid1 -mconvert=raid1 /app

Check raid level

# btrfs fi df /app
Data, RAID1: total=2.69GiB, used=2.51GiB
System, RAID1: total=32.00MiB, used=16.00KiB
Metadata, RAID1: total=317.94MiB, used=239.55MiB
GlobalReserve, single: total=12.03MiB, used=0.00B
#

If contains multiple block group profiles, could happen when a profile conversion using balance filters was interrupted.

Data, RAID1: total=2.03GiB, used=1.86GiB
Data, single: total=704.00MiB, used=665.56MiB
System, RAID1: total=32.00MiB, used=16.00KiB
Metadata, RAID1: total=288.00MiB, used=239.56MiB
GlobalReserve, single: total=11.94MiB, used=0.00B
WARNING: Multiple block group profiles detected, see 'man btrfs(5)'.
WARNING:   Data: single, raid1

Perform rebalance again

# btrfs balance start -dconvert=raid1 -mconvert=raid1 /app
Done, had to relocate 12 out of 12 chunks

Scrub

btrfs scrub start /app
btrfs scrub status /app

Error

To correct error, first find out corrupted file, then restore from backup or delete the file

dmesg -T | grep BTRFS | grep 'check error' | grep path

Then reset error count to zero

btrfs device states -z /app

Then scrub again.

References

BTRFS-MAN(5)