Create VM by importing drive instead of ISO

[babazaroni]

I am having trouble creating an iso of a 2TB drive partition. I've tried Ubuntu disk tools but the iso would be larger than my 2tb usb drives and not allowed to proceed.

Is it possible to directly import from a bootable usb drive with the proxmox web interface?

 

[fabian]

what exactly are you trying to achieve? an ISO file normally only contains the installation files (that used to be put on a CD/DVD ), not the contents of a hard disk..

 

[babazaroni]

What I would like to do is use CloneZilla to do a device-to-device copy of an internal nvme drive to an external usb nvme drive. Then I would like to use the proxmox web ui to import the external drive as a vm. The os is Ubuntu.

 

[d0glesby]

Look into using "qm importdisk" from the command line on the PVE hypervisor.

 

[bbgeek17]

What I would like to do is use CloneZilla to do a device-to-device copy of an internal nvme drive to an external usb nvme drive. Then I would like to use the proxmox web ui to import the external drive as a vm. The os is Ubuntu.

Look into using "qm importdisk" from the command line on the PVE hypervisor.

@d0glesby is correct, there is no "import" ability in UI for any type of disk.
Your could "dd" ISO (if its in a suitable underlying format) to a disk, you could live boot Clonezilla on VM and use the app "restore" ability. There are probably 10 other ways to transfer the data. All depends on your options to "export" it from source.

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[fiona]

Hi,
for reference: https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-qm.html#_importing_virtual_machines_and_disk_images