Self-Hosted Alternatives to Popular Services

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/HTTP_404_NotFound on 2025-02-10 16:57:33+00:00.

Just- a simple guide on how to migrate from VirtualBOX to proxmox.

The disk on my gaming PC was filling up this weekend, and I realized I had a few hundred gigs of Virtualbox images sitting on it.

So- decided to migrate them over to proxmox to free up the space, and I documented the process.

The TLDR;

1. Convert .VDI to .IMG using VBoxManage
2. Move Image to Proxmox-accessible location.
3. Convert .IMG to .QCow2 using qemu-image (Step 2 & 3 are interchangeable)
4. Create blank proxmox VM without disks.
5. import disk
6. set boot order, attach disk.
7. done.

Also, hindsite- you could just copy the .VDI directly to proxmox, and use qemu-img to go straight from .VDI to .qcow2