Hello Accession (Nick)!

Well I've had to do it. Migrating from Esxi 6.5 to Proxmox. Not due to Hardware issues, and not from software failing, but still a software issue.

I've got a project that requires the pass through of a GPU to a Linux VM.

Esxi did that part fine, the vm could see the card, but the drivers just failed to load....

The same hardware setup with Proxmox is the only change that works!

Ok so here's the things to note:

Proxmox can't read the VMFS6 formated drives, due to the older ESXi version. So no direct import of the VM's.

This leaves you with two options going forward.

1. Setup proxmox on a temporary system, and via the "Datacenter -> Storage", click on add and choose ESXi.
Input your Esxi hosts information.

This then gives you the option of "Importing" your VM's from the ESXi host via the network.

To complete this process the source VM needs to be powered off, or it will fail.

Once you have your VM's imported, move the hd/ssd with proxmox on it to your existing host.
Once booted up, you will then need to change the network setting for the local lan.

"dmesg |grep eth"

Will show you something like this (My local lan is enp5s0):

root@pve:~# dmesg|grep eth
[ 1.644270] e1000e 0000:00:19.0 eth0: (PCI Express:2.5GT/s:Width x1)
[ 1.644274] e1000e 0000:00:19.0 eth0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
[ 1.644307] e1000e 0000:00:19.0 eth0: MAC: 10, PHY: 11, PBA No: 0100FF-0FF
[ 1.726086] e1000e 0000:05:00.0 eth1: (PCI Express:2.5GT/s:Width x1)
[ 1.726090] e1000e 0000:05:00.0 eth1: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
[ 1.726175] e1000e 0000:05:00.0 eth1: MAC: 3, PHY: 8, PBA No: 1000FF-0FF
[ 1.965989] e1000e 0000:05:00.0 enp5s0: renamed from eth1
[ 1.966194] e1000e 0000:00:19.0 eno1: renamed from eth0

root@pve:~# cat /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

iface enp5s0 inet manual

auto vmbr0
iface vmbr0 inet static
address 192.168.1.10/24
gateway 192.168.1.1
bridge-ports enp5s0
bridge-stp off
bridge-fd 0

iface eno1 inet manual


2. Use backup software in your VM's, and do a restore (Might fail).
You have to get the drive sizes right etc.



Vorlon


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