Proxmox VE is a complete, open-source server management platform for enterprise virtualization. It tightly integrates the KVM hypervisor and Linux Containers (LXC), software-defined storage and networking functionality, on a single platform. With the integrated web-based user interface you can manage VMs and containers, high availability for clusters, or the integrated disaster recovery tools with ease.
For anybody considering using the Proxmox ESXi Import Wizard, you should watch this video.
Personally, I don't watch tech videos. Give me the documentation and let me go. Well, the folks at Proxmox made the unusual decision of releasing the full and complete directions on using the Import Tool via this video. I don't know of any other official source where you get the full intricate details of an optimal virtual machine import and conversion to VirtIO.
Ya, it sux. Watch the video anyway.
actually just made some progress after I typed this. The wizard was trying to read file sizes of mounted DVD images in the virtual DVD drive of offline VMs. I deleted the DVD drive from those machines and the fuse mount of the ESXi storage proceeded.
edit: and got one down successfully. So far it appears the free license of ESXi is no hindrance.
Isn't vkmd just a wrapper around a qcow? And as such you can extract the qcow image with whatever archive manager you have?
Um ... that thing about vmdk and qcow being the same ... that's ... not correct. I've never heard anyone say anything like that before. Its so wild that I can't even find a link to refute it.
But anyway, to convert VMDK and QCOW2, you need qemu-utils. Run this ...
qemu-img convert
is it???