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=Introduction=
#REDIRECT [[Migrate to Proxmox VE]]
You can migrate existing servers to Proxmox VE.
 
=Physical server to Proxmox VE (KVM)=
There are free tools (like [http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/ VMware Converter]) available to migrate a physical host to VMware. So the first step is to migrate the physical server to a VMware image. The second step is to follow the howto "VMware to Proxmox VE (KVM)".
 
=VMware to Proxmox VE (KVM)=
This howto describes the migration of a Windows 2003 Server (or Windows XP) from VMware to Proxmox VE (KVM).
 
==Prepare the Windows operating system==
Before you begin make a copy of the VMware image.
===Remove VMware tools===
Start the Windows virtual machine on VMware and remove the VMware tools via the Windows control panel. Reboot.
===Enable IDE in the registry===
* Start the Windows virtual machine on VMware and execute the mergeide.reg (see [http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314082/en-us Microsoft KB article] for details). Now the registry is changed that your Windows can boot from IDE, necessary for KVM.
* Shutdown Windows.
 
==Prepare the disk file==
My disk file used for this howto: win2003.vmdk
* Change your VMDK disk file with vmware-vdiskmanager.exe to a single file (vmware-vdiskmanager.exe is located in your VMware installation path, e.g. "C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Server")
vmware-vdiskmanager -r win2003.vmdk -t 0 win2003-pve.vmdk
* copy the win2003-pve.vmdk to your Proxmox VE server into the following dir: /var/lib/vz/images (I used [http://winscp.net WinSCP] as I worked on a Windows desktop)
* Change the win2003-pve.vmdk file to KVM
qemu-img convert -f vmdk win2003-pve.vmdk -O qcow2 win2003-pve.qcow2
 
 
 
=XEN to Proxmox VE (KVM)=
 
=Physical server (or XEN or VMware or other) to Proxmox VE (Container)=
tbd.
see [http://wiki.openvz.org/Physical_to_container Physical_to_container]
 
[[Category: HOWTO]]

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