Is it possible to migrate from vmware esxi to kvm-qemu?

Question

VMware

If possible, what are the steps? Windows server installed in virtual machines

Answer 1

Can.
1) NFS connect the KVM storage to the ESX host
2) Copy the VMDK files to the KVM storage
3) Convert qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O qcow2 my_disk.vmdk my_disk.qcow2
4) Create a VM with qcow2 disks, controller type for the first We put the disk in IDE, the rest - VIRTIO
5) We start the VM, only the first disk is seen, we put the virtio drivers. 6) Turn off the machine, change the controller type to
VIRTIO, start up, remove vmware-tools, reboot 7) Everything is ready You could also try live migration, but KVM does not support it on VMDKs.