Synoniem's notes from a system administrator

Change drive type after importing ESXI into Proxmox

When importing a Virtual machine from ESXI into Proxmox you will notice that drive type is SCSI instead of SATA. No big deal except such VM cannot find its boot drive because necessary SCSI drivers are not installed by default (especially Windows systems). The quick and dirty solution is from Proxmox commandline edit the “ID”.conf file in /etc/pve/nodes/pve/qemu-server where “ID” is the number of that VM by example 100.conf.

Look for:

scsi0: local-lvm:vm-100-disk-0,size=40996M

replace it with:

sata0: local-lvm:vm-100-disk-0,size=40996M

and look for:

boot: order=sata0;scsi0

to finish it off.