Convert VirtualBox VM to ProxMox VE Rumi, June 24, 2022June 24, 2022 On the VirtualBox host, launch VirtualBox Right click the VM to convert > Settings Select Storage from the left navigation Click the virtual hard disk and copy the Location value for the full path of the disk to the clipboard Right click on the Start menu > Run > type cmd.exe > Press Enter Enter the following commands in the command prompt # change directory to VirtualBox installation cd %programfiles%\Oracle\VirtualBox # convert the .vdi to raw .img VBoxManage clonehd --format RAW "pasted\full\path\to.vdi" "pasted\full\path\to.raw" Once the .vdi to .raw conversion completes, open a web browser and navigate to the ProxMox web UI https://ProxMoxDNSorIP:8006/ Click the Create VM button at the top right On the General tab, enter a VM Name and note the VM ID generated > click Next On the OS tab select Do not use any media and set the Guest OS > click Next On the System tab click Next On the Hard Disk tab set the Disk size to 0.001 > click Next On the CPU tab set the number of CPUs > click Next On the Memory tab set the amount of memory to allocate in MiB > click Next On the Network tab click Next On the Confirm tab review the settings and click Finish Select the newly created VM from the left navigation panel > Hardware Click the Hard Disk to select it Click the Detach button to detach the hard disk from the VM Click the Unused disk Click the Remove button to permanently delete it Download WinSCP Download Extract WinSCP and run the executable Connect to the ProxMox IP server via WinSCP Copy the VirtualBox created .raw file to a location on the ProxMox server that has enough free disk space, /root for example Back in the browser, open the ProxMox host Shell Run the following command to import the raw disk, modify the .raw file name and VM ID noted earlier # import the raw disk # usage: # qm importdisk <VM ID> /root/<source disk file>.raw <destination storage pool name> qm importdisk 100 vbox.raw HDD_500GB --format qcow2 Once the disk import completes, select the target VM from the left navigation menu > Hardware Double click the Unused Disk > Click the Add button Select Options from the left navigation sub-menu Double click Boot Order Check the Enabled box next to the hard disk Drag the Hard disk up in the boot order as needed, typically below the CD-ROM device Click OK Click the Start button in the top right of the screen Click the Console link to watch the boot process Src: https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials/0295.html Administrations Collected Articles Proxmoxvirtualbox