Not finding a lot of info on using Proxmox import wizard to extract VMs from an ESXi free license host. I can add the host as storage and see the VMs but it looks like it’s failing afterwards due to possibly some kind of rate limit error? But I know the free version API is either closed or not available. Any ideas? Thanks!

  • kalpol@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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    4 days ago

    actually just made some progress after I typed this. The wizard was trying to read file sizes of mounted DVD images in the virtual DVD drive of offline VMs. I deleted the DVD drive from those machines and the fuse mount of the ESXi storage proceeded.

    edit: and got one down successfully. So far it appears the free license of ESXi is no hindrance.

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Isn’t vkmd just a wrapper around a qcow? And as such you can extract the qcow image with whatever archive manager you have?