xen-pve-migration

Workflow and Scripts for migration from Citrix Hypervisor to Proxmox

Requirements

• Citrix Hypervisor
• Proxmox Hypervisor
• Engineer PC (Linux)

Packets on your Engineer PC

• cifs-utils
• qemu-utils
• expect

Scripts on your Engineer PC

• start.sh
• convert.exp
• import.exp

Workflow

Windows

Original VM

• shutdown the virtual machine
• backup the virtual machine
• start the backup (manipulate the backup instead of your production machine, in case something goes wrong)
• run uninstall script on your virtual machine:

iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ConsoryGmbH/xen-pve-migration/main/uninstall.ps1'))

• restart the virtual machine
• run cleanup script on your virtual machine:

iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ConsoryGmbH/xen-pve-migration/main/cleanup.ps1'))

• shutdown the virtual machine

Info: use the full username like MyHostname\Administrator or MyDomain\Administrator

Proxmox

• create a virtual machine with identical specs as your original vm without disks

Engineer PC

• run the export.sh
• provide the old disk uuid from xen
• provide the new vm id

Proxmox

• mount the imported disk with SATA Driver
• add the disk to the boot options
• start the virtual machine
• install the virtio drivers