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#Set a root password, this will be useful to use VNC Step 1. Shutdown/Restart droplet into Recovery Mode in DO Control Panel, take note of the temporary root password shown in console. Step 2: Then copy the remote disk image of the DigitalOcean droplet to your local machine ssh root@43.44.X.X "dd if=/dev/vda" | sudo dd of=88plug.raw bs=64k Step 3: Convert the .raw file to a compatible .img file for Unraid qemu-img convert -p -O raw 88plug.raw disk.img Step 4: Sync Image file to Unraid rsync -av --progress -e "ssh -T -c aes128-ctr -o Compression=no -x" disk.img root@tower.local:/mnt/user/domains/88plug/ Step 5: Create a new VM with the same OS as your DO Droplet.
Bonus round: For other systems use the handy table below
| Image format | Argument to qemu-img |
|---|---|
| QCOW2 (KVM, Xen) | qcow2 |
| QED (KVM) | qed |
| raw | raw |
| VDI (VirtualBox) | vdi |
| VHD (Hyper-V) | vpc |
| VMDK (VMware) | vmdk |
For ProxMox use qcow2
qemu-img convert -p -O raw 88plug.raw disk.qcow2
Import the disk into the VM configuration
#qm importdisk <vmid> <disk> <storage> qm list qm importdisk $VMID disk.qcow2 local-lvm
Could you advise on what networking settings should be changed once up and running on proxmox? Any other settings to make this fully functional within Proxmox (like qemu guest agent)
The new VM should use a typical network bridge (br0)