storage: upload disk

[150d]

Hi,

I had created a VM with a second virtual HDD. This virtual disk was located on an external drive on a plain ext4 partition.

Now I wanted to convert the external drive to a LVM Thinpool. I chose "detach" to separate the virtual disk from its VM (which was powered down, of course) and copied the disk image somewhere else. I then deleted the ext4 partition and created a LVM Thinpool in its place.

Now I need to get the disk image back to its VM. How do I do that?

I can see the new Thinpool in Proxmox GUI, and it is set to accept type "Disk Image", but nowhere is there an option to "upload disk image". I suppose I will need to use an "attach" command on the CLI, but how do I get the file there in the first place?

Regards

 

[aaron]

qm disk import {vmid} /path/to/image {target storage} is probably what you want to do.

 

[150d]

qm disk import {vmid} /path/to/image {target storage} is probably what you want to do.

Exactly. Thanks a million!

One quirk:

The file I tried to import was named "vm-110-disk-0.qcow2".

I executed:

qm disk import 110 vm-110-disk-0.qcow2 mystorage

This finished with:

Successfully imported disk as 'unused1:mystorage:vm-110-disk-0'

After the process, in the GUI I could see one new disk named "vm-110-disk-0".

But in VM/Hardware, there were not one "unused disks", but two of them.

unused disk 0: mystorage: 110/vm-110-disk-0.qcow2 unused disk 1: mystorage: vm-110-disk-0

I tried to assign the first one, but got "error: name contains invalid character".
When I tried the same with the second one, it worked flawlessly. The disk is fully accessible by the VM and back in service.

What should I do with the other "unused disk", should I just "remove" it?

Is this maybe my very own backup file that I used for the re-import, which just happened to be included in a automatic rescan that was triggered by the import itself?

Regards

 

[aaron]

Mystorage is a thin LVM right? Try to remove the first one with qcow2 in the name. That should only look like that for file based storages.

 

[150d]

Worked. All fine now.

Thanks again!