Moving VM from ESXi to Freenas

TrueNAS General
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  • download the disk image (vmdk) from ESXi
  • use e.g. qemu-img to convert the image to raw, possibly on your desktop machine
  • create virtual machine in TrueNAS with a virtual disk of suffcicient size
  • that will give you a zvol in ZFS for the virtual disk
  • use dd to write the raw image to the zvol (after copying the image to TrueNAS)

This works for both TrueNAS CORE and CE.

I am not at home atm, so I cannot check - possibly qemu-img is installed on TrueNAS CE, already, and you can copy over the vmdk, then convert on TrueNAS. I doubt the tool is present on CORE, but might be mistaken.