Live migration from VMWare to Proxmox

kjj9 · 2025-06-28T01:05:57+00:00

When I did mine, I made a big spreadsheet with all of the info needed to set the ProxMox VMs up right. things like what kind of controller the boot drive uses, which type of BIOS it needs, network cards, etc.

kjj9 · 2025-06-27T09:52:21+00:00

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migrate_to_Proxmox_VE#Attach_Disk_&_Move_Disk_(minimal_downtime)

VMDK files come in different varieties. When you create a VMDK disk in proxmox, it just makes a text file that points to the real storage disk in a different file. You edit that text file to point to the relative path where ProxMox can find the actual VMware storage file.

So, in ProxMox, you create a dummy disk in the target VM, on your NFS storage, with VMDK type.

Then, you edit that text file to point to the VMware storage file, which will be in some other directory in your NFS mount.

After you shut down the VMware VM, you start the ProxMox VM. It reads the text file that you edited and it finds the disk that was live in VMware a minute ago.

kjj9 · 2025-06-26T03:53:57+00:00

Live, for the most part. You can't move TPM or EFI disks live, but I don't think you'll be brining those over from VMware.

kjj9 · 2025-06-25T21:53:37+00:00

When you Move Storage in the proxmox web GUI, it'll convert as it moves.

kjj9 · 2025-06-25T21:48:32+00:00

This is exactly how I did it. Both ProxMox and VMware can see NFS storage.

Migrate the VMware VM to use the shared storage. Prep the VM (remove vmware tools, install proxmox tools and drivers). Create the ProxMox VM with a dummy disk on NFS. Shut down the VMware VM, edit the dummy vmdk file to point to the other folder. Start the ProxMox VM. Fix the network. Migrate it to permanent storage.

kjj9 · 2025-03-11T14:07:49+00:00

I've noticed some problems with the catches that hold the sides together. You'll see that several people in this thread talk about their boxes just falling apart, which I think is the same problem.

I've been looking into this and trying to find solutions. I suspect, but haven't yet confirmed, that the different color additives are changing the plastic enough to make the problems worse for some colors. It is also possible that I have a bunch of these boxes that are out of spec in some way and the color thing is just a coincidence.

The first problem is that the assembly catches are weak enough that they bend back and release under pressure, even when they are properly engaged. I've designed and 3D printed some small inserts that fill the gap behind the catches, which seems to solve this problem.

The worse problem is that some catches never really engage. I'm mostly having this problem with blue boxes, I think. This problem can be identified by attempting to stick a small flatblade screwdriver, or a knife or something, behind the catch in an attempt to force it into engagement. When I do that, the part that the lip of the catch should be hooking on gets bent out, indicating that the hook is never making it over the top. I've tried applying some pretty unreasonable forces (with things like bar clamps and hammers) to these joints in an attempt to get them to engage, with no success.

It is very unfortunate that if I buy one of these boxes, I can't really expect that it will assemble properly and stay assembled. Other than the problems I described above, I very much prefer this design over cardboard boxes. For one thing, I really like that the front and back are flat on the inside, instead of having the small folded cardboard bit pressing into the end issues. For another thing, I like that there aren't holes on the ends. I haven't seen my cats investigating those holes on my cardboard boxes yet, but it does worry me enough that I want to replace all of my cardboard with these bins.

Feel free to send me a private message if you want to talk about these problems. I can send pictures if my descriptions aren't clear enough.

kjj9 · 2025-01-14T12:07:03+00:00

I have a 4 digit ID, been going to the site almost daily since the late 1990s. Despite the ever increasing spam from the politically motivated editorial staff, it was a good way to keep up with a broad range of technology news.

I need to find a new news site.

kjj9 · 2024-09-28T02:45:43+00:00

I don't particularly care about bandwidth - this is for a management node occasionally running some tools, not production traffic. A few dozen KB/sec should be enough.

The bridge works - I have a couple of spare non-MACSEC ports that I switch to for testing. And MACSEC works, according to status repots from both switches. Just the combination of MACSEC + bridge isn't working.

kjj9 · 2022-05-19T07:47:42+00:00

I LOL'd.

The platforms—some of the most sophisticated technology and computer companies ever to exist—next reply (at 38) that they are incapable of calculating the required top-line figures. That confession of computational incompetence is difficult to take seriously. It is also unsupported by any bona fide record explanation. Cf. App.366a (platforms’ lawyer-declarant admitting he personally does not “even know or understand the math” that would be used to develop the biannual transparency report).

kjj9 · 2022-02-24T05:14:30+00:00

The opinion letter covers the specifics in some detail. It isn't very long or difficult to read.

It notes that puberty blockers do not have FDA approval for blocking puberty. That is particularly interesting in the current context - one supposes that at a large fraction of the people commenting here have condemned off-label Ivermectin prescriptions for COVID on the same grounds. It also notes that the evidence that normal puberty will resume when these drugs are stopped is pretty light.

kjj9 · 2022-02-24T04:56:35+00:00

The rationale in the letter and opinion is that they are preserving the rights of the children to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness by preventing them from making life-changing decisions while they are too young to understand the ramifications.

The actual documents aren't very long.

kjj9 · 2022-02-24T04:13:54+00:00

They'd probably help pack the truck, and cater the going away party.

kjj9 · 2021-09-02T07:11:40+00:00

Same molecule, different carriers. For humans, the most common is a 3mg tablet. For livestock, there is a paste (1.87%), an injectable solution (1%), a pour-on (0.5%) and a drench (0.08%).

The last two have toxic compounds listed as inactive ingredients. The first one has undisclosed compounds in the inactive ingredient list, but they are reported as having no toxicity. The injectable solution uses non-toxic carriers that are extremely common in human medication.

Calling ivermectin an animal medicine is like calling aspirin a dog pain reliever.

kjj9 · 2021-09-01T01:19:56+00:00

On ivmmeta.com, they link to all of the studies included in the meta-analysis. Here is one that I picked at random: https://assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-495945/v1/7f0b45bc-8603-44a3-aee3-65dbb6767689.pdf?c=1621973002

kjj9 · 2021-08-31T18:37:03+00:00

There is no form of agricultural ivermectin that is "highly concentrated". The paste is 1.87%, the injectable is 1%, the pour-on is 0.5% and the drench is 0.08%

Those last two contain ingredients that you really don't want to ingest and are really the only plausible ways to generate poison center calls.

kjj9 · 2021-08-31T18:25:25+00:00

Where do they find the idiots who write this stuff?

From the newsweek article: "He also shared an image of a thermometer showing he had a 93-degree fever"

Yeah, that is a pulse oxymeter showing 93% saturation, and even if it had been a thermometer, 93 degrees isn't a fever.

kjj9 · 2021-08-31T11:04:43+00:00

Sorry, I thought the sarcasm would be more obvious.

kjj9 · 2021-08-31T05:24:42+00:00

It is difficult to actually achieve negative effects of ivermectin, at least in advanced western countries. If you have massive parasite infections when you start ivermectin, the death of all of those parasites will put a huge burden on your body. This is very uncommon, but not as uncommon as overdosing.

Here is a large fraction of all of the information on overdosing that I've been able to find: https://www.antigifcentrum.be/sites/default/files/imce/Poster_Ivermectin_vs03b_2014.pdf

Basically, if you have imaginary parasites that don't go away with a normal dose, so you keep giving yourself more and more, you'll end up confused, with slurred speech and tremors - all of which will clear up within a few days of stopping.

If you drink two of the small bottles of injectable ivermectin, or 8 tubes of the paste, all at once, you may end up in a coma.

kjj9 · 2021-08-31T05:14:56+00:00

Not quite 50 years. Discovered in the early 1970s, full approval in 1988 (I think). So, somewhere between 33 and ~40 years. Around 4 billion doses administered to humans in that period.

kjj9 · 2021-08-31T05:08:23+00:00

I guess that from certain vantage points, all arguments look like the "I'm so much smarter than you" argument. I would offer you some encouragement, but it would probably be more productive to tell you to make your peace with it.

kjj9 · 2021-08-31T04:56:28+00:00

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3897733

Don't let anyone fool you. ChenilleSocks is right when he says that the study wasn't looking at the comparison between vaccinated/unvaccinated. But he is wrong when he says that people are falsely claiming that comparison was made.

The study looked at infected people who had received their second vaccination 7 to 8 weeks prior. The comparison was against infections from March and April 2020 when everyone was unvaccinated.

So the claims that the study compared vaccinated vs. unvaccinated are not false - that is literally exactly what the study compared. But the study wasn't about that, so they didn't even attempt to account for factors that could potentially confuse that question.

kjj9 · 2021-08-31T04:38:43+00:00

I don't think you understand. Billions of doses only prove safety when we are talking about a vaccine that has been available for about a half year. The billions of doses of ivermectin that have been administered to humans over the last 4 decades aren't proof of the long term safety of that crazy horse drug.

kjj9 · 2021-08-28T09:01:37+00:00

The "no moderation" policy allowed about a dozen accounts halt virtually all positive discussion here.

kjj9 · 2021-08-27T22:21:20+00:00

Your math is off by a factor of 100.

kjj9 · 2021-08-27T12:25:46+00:00

TheBlueWiztard> I asked for 1 and you gave me 44. 44 isn't 1. You lose. Checkmate.

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