Importing VMWare and VirtualBox VMs to Proxmox
I’ve got a bunch of existing VirtualBox and VMWare VMs that I want to run on Proxmox. Eventually I’ll migrate them to containers, but for the time being run them as “fat” VMs using Proxmox’s KVM virtualisation. After copying the OVA files that I had to the server, I uncompressed them:
root@proxmox01:/data04/vms/bdl44-biwa# cd ../bdl44
root@proxmox01:/data04/vms/bdl44# ll
total 27249328
-rw------- 1 root root 27903306752 Jun 1 10:14 BigDataLite440.ova
root@proxmox01:/data04/vms/bdl44# tar -xf BigDataLite440.ova
root@proxmox01:/data04/vms/bdl44# ll
total 54498668
-rw------- 1 root root 7300486656 Feb 18 21:25 BigDataLite440-disk1.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 1261044224 Feb 18 21:26 BigDataLite440-disk2.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 19295202816 Feb 18 21:48 BigDataLite440-disk3.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 46550528 Feb 18 21:48 BigDataLite440-disk4.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 27903306752 Jun 1 10:14 BigDataLite440.ova
-rw------- 1 root root 19619 Feb 18 21:15 BigDataLite440.ovf
and then converted each disk image to qcow2 format: (You can read more about how and why here and here).