Note: You may or may not need to use “sudo” for this command, depending on where you image file is located. Be sure to replace the image file location below to match the location of your image file. I’m just going to copy it to my home folder. To start we will copy the VM disk in case something goes wrong. To save some time on uploading the VM disk to Proxmox, we can change the current image to have preallocation turned off, which will reduce the size of the disk image file. This step is optional but by default, Virt Manager creates full disk-size images. Step 2: (Optional) Disable Preallocation of the Disk Find the disk on the left side and view the file location on the right. Next, click the info icon to open the hardware details. Go ahead and open up Virt Manager, make sure the VM is powered off, then right-click on the VM you want to use and choose open. To get started with importing a Virt Manager VM to Proxmox, you need to find out where the VMs disk is currently stored. Import Virt Manager VM to Proxmox Step 1: Launch Virt Manager ![]() Once you have confirmed it is working, you can delete the OVA you uploaded and extracted files as they are no longer needed. Now you are ready to boot up your VM for the first time on Proxmox. In my example, I moved it just below the CD-ROM drive since I don’t have an ISO attached to it. From the “Options” menu of the VM, go into boot order and check the box next to your new hard disk and move it up in the order. One last thing we need to do is change the boot order so that our VM boots to this new disk. Customize any options you may need such as “Discard” and “SSD Emulation” (Only if the underlying disk is an SSD), then click on Add to make the disk active. To enable the disk, highlight it and click edit. If you head back to the VM in Proxmox, you should now see your disk listed as “Unused”. In my case, the VM ID is 104 and the storage I want is vm-storage1. Step 5: Import the VMDK to the New Proxmox VMīefore we import the disk, take note of the ID for your new VM in Proxmox and the storage you want the hard disk to live on, you will need this for the import. After it is detached, it will appear as “Unused”, highlight it again and choose remove. To remove the current hard disk of the new VM, go into the hardware for the VM and highlight the Hard Disk. We will be replacing that hard disk with the one from VirtualBox. Once you have created the new VM, we will detach and remove the hard disk that was created with the VM. Configure the Network, CPU, and RAM however you wish. Now that we have the vmdk file, we need to create a basic VM in Proxmox. The one that we want is the vmdk file which we will use to create the VM in Proxmox. This will give us a vmdk file that represents the hard disk of the VirtualBox VM we are trying to import.Īfter extracting the OVA file, you will have multiple files. Navigate in the shell session to where you uploaded the OVA file and run the following command to extract the OVA. You will need to either SSH to your Proxmox server or use the built-in console/shell for this part. You can do this using whatever method you want, I typically use SFTP to upload the file. Now you need to upload this OVA file to your Proxmox server. Once the export is finished, you should find the OVA file in the location that you noted above. The export of the VM should now begin and will take a few minutes to complete. Go ahead and click “Next” and then “Finish”. ![]() Take note of the file location, as we will be copying this file over to our Proxmox server. Just make sure the “Format” is set to “Open Virtualization Format”. On the following screen, you can keep the defaults. Once you have VirtualBox open, find the VM that you want to migrate to Proxmox and right-click on it. Import VirtualBox VM to Proxmox Step 1: Launch VirtualBox Step 5: Import QCOW2 Disk to the New VM.Step 2: (Optional) Disable Preallocation of the Disk.Step 5: Import the VMDK to the New Proxmox VM.Step 2: Upload VirtualBox OVA to Proxmox. ![]() Luckily, you can import those into Proxmox and I’ll show you how to do that here, so let’s get started. ![]() You may have spent a lot of time configuring these VMs and now that you’re migrating to Proxmox you really don’t want to start from scratch on those existing VMs. If you’re like me, prior to using Proxmox you had virtual machines running in something like VirtualBox or Virt Manager.
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