importdisk

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    How to know whether a disk format is supported or not?

    I was trying to import a VMDK disk into my Proxmox (8.3) cluster using qm disk import --format vmdk and then i got the following error: format 'vmdk' is not supported by the target storage - using 'raw' instead How do I know which disk formats does my target storage supports? And how to make it...
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    API equivalent of qm importdisk

    Currently I use `qm importdisk 9000 jammy-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk-kvm.iso <Volume Group>` during VM creation. Now would like to use VE API for the same. What is the equivalent for that command with API.
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    qm importdisk generates a 1000 GiB vmdk file from a 60GiB vmdk

    Good morning everyone! We are trying to migrate a 60 GiB vmdk Virtual Machine to Proxmox 8.0.3, but "qm import" is generating a 1000 GiB vmdk file root@pve:~# qm importdisk 103 /mnt/pve/Synology/vmfile.vmdk DISK_SDK --format vmdk importing disk '/mnt/pve/Synology/vmfile.vmdk' to VM 103 ...
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    Stuck VM (alternatives to connect to console?) and frozen conversion process.

    Hi, I succesfully imported a VHDX disk and started the machine (I had to set the SCSI controller to default and BIOS UEFI). The conversion process told me it converted a 60Gb-big file when actually the VHDX file was 50Gb big. Then I started the process of importing another VHDX disk. QM told me...
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    VM freeze when running qm importdisk on host

    Hi all. I have a HP Microserver g8 (CPU: Xeon E3-1265L RAM; 16GiB ECC, Storage; Crucial MX500 1TB) running proxmox 7.2 without subscription. There is only one VM (100) running. It's running pfSense, as gateway and firewall, with two NICs (LAN and WAN) bridged. I want to import some qcow2 disk...
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    Importdisk with resize or bring libguestfs-tools to life

    Goals Painless creating VM from cloud image with resizing of root partition Expected implementation * it is expected that qm importdisk has option to resize partitions of disk images while importing like this: qm importdisk --resize partition=/dev/sdaN,size=[+]<size> # Setting variables...
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    Moving Virtual machine from virtual box to external drive and then import into vm

    Hi all, I have been trying to figure out how to import my .raw file virtual machine over to my proxmox server. I converted the file to .raw from a vdi that i was using in virtualbox via qemu. And i copied it to the external drive. And i have the external drive mounted but cant get the file to...