How to migrate a server from KVM to ESXi?

Question

FreeBSD

There is a mail server with freebsd 11.2. It runs in a virtual machine. KVM virtualization system. RAW hard disk image. You need to migrate the entire system to a Vmware ESXi virtualization environment. I tried to convert RAW to VMDK, the resulting ESXi image could not be opened. How can I transfer the entire system with software and settings?

Answer 1

Converters
from GNULinux qemu-img , something like

qemu-img convert -f raw /var/lib/libvirt/images/VM.img -O vmdk VM.tmp.vmdk -o compat6

or from wmware https://www.vmware.com/products/converter.html

Answer 2

1. Try different converters - from vmware, from virtualbox, from StarWind
2. Way of the Jedi. The system is screwed up - how will you restore it? Create an empty machine, put FreeBSD into it, then dump/restore