{"id":3741,"date":"2025-06-16T14:32:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T18:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/?p=3741"},"modified":"2025-10-19T09:36:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T13:36:15","slug":"xcp-how-to-import-a-vm-from-vmware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/?p=3741","title":{"rendered":"XCP how to import a VM from VmWare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">document the IP addresses <strong>BEFORE <\/strong>moving as they will change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Uninstall the VmWare Tools <strong>BEFORE <\/strong>migrating.  Uninstall only succeeds if currently hosted on VmWare. You can&#8217;t ever cleanly remove the tools if you are already on XCP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In XOS choose Import, From VmWare<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">enter the ip of the HOST not the IP of vCenter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">username   (hint usually root)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">password   (usually imABigStinkyCheeseCurd)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">enable Skip SSL check,   internal networks likely don&#8217;t have valid public certificates<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wait a LONG time, this pulls the VM thru the Management Interface which is usually only 1gbps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">if the VM fails to boot, open the Advanced Tab for the VM, and uncheck secure boot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you import a Linux Ubuntu VM and the network doesn&#8217;t work follow this procedure to correctly name the nic in netplan<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.virtualizationhowto.com\/2024\/02\/migrate-from-vmware-to-xcp-ng-a-vsphere-admins-perspective\/\">https:\/\/www.virtualizationhowto.com\/2024\/02\/migrate-from-vmware-to-xcp-ng-a-vsphere-admins-perspective\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>document the IP addresses BEFORE moving as they will change. Uninstall the VmWare Tools BEFORE migrating. Uninstall only succeeds if currently hosted on VmWare. You can&#8217;t ever cleanly remove the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[124,219],"class_list":["post-3741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-vmware","tag-xcp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3741"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3933,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741\/revisions\/3933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}