Migrating a Windows VM from Proxmox to XCP-NG

iLix

@aithorusa Hi. You can use https://clonezilla.org/ or https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-v2v-converter

There are probably more options, but i have used both with sucsess. Are you using local storage or NAS/SAN for you VMs?

aithorusa

@ilix Thanks for your reply. I am using local storage. I saved the backup in the local storage and then got the backup file using WinSCP.
If I use these two tools, will I need to work with the backup files? Because XCP-NG only allows OVA/OVF formats when I try and import any VM

iLix

@aithorusa Are you running Proxmox on one host and XCP on another? This video explains how to do Clonezilla: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSTk9BLwF5k

aithorusa

@ilix Yes I'm running a lot of VMs in Proxmox, one of which I need to migrate to XCP-NG.

iLix

@aithorusa You can also clone "offline", if the two systems don´t have direct access.

aithorusa

@ilix I apologize for the late reply on this but if you could help me out with one more thing. We have about 50VMs on Proxmox that need to be migrated to XCP-NG. Using clonezilla will be too long of a task and I'm not sure if it'll save the config files for all the settings either. I was wondering if there's any other way I can move the VMs to XCP-NG. I do have the RAW disk images.

olivierlambert

We'll be happy to help building scripts to automatically fetch ProxMox content and put it into XCP-ng, however we don't have a great ProxMox knowledge.

Danp

Since Proxmox is based on KVM, has anyone tried to use this info? -- https://xcp-ng.org/docs/migratetoxcpng.html#from-kvm-libvirt

iLix

@aithorusa I have only done conversions one by one I am afraid, but i guess you could script the conversion as Oliver said.

davemcl

@aithorusa What method did you end up going with? Was it successful?

AtaxyaNetwork

@davemcl HI !

You can use this:

qemu-img convert -O vpc proxmox-disk.qcow2 `uuidgen`.vhd
scp thegenerateduuid.vhd ip.xcp-ng.server:/run/sr-mount/uuid-of-your-SR

Then with XO create a VM and attach the disk

It should be working

oxyrizal

@AtaxyaNetwork please advice

olivierlambert

Hi,

You really need to give more details.