qcow2

Hello, I am preparing to deploy and F5 Networks BigIP onto Proxmox v8.1.4 In my preparation I have been scowring the internet for what looks to be pieces and parts, which is OK... I'm documenting every step. I have seen several posts about downloading the qcow2 image... check As I started...

Hello all, It's probably a dumb question but I'd like some clarifications on QCow2 file and Proxmox. I came from a a basic CentOS + KVM environment and converted it to Proxmox and I don't understand certain aspect. - Why do I have to run "qm importdisk" on qcow2 file before being able to use...

I am using the qcow2 image from Debian 12 for a local vm. I followed the instructions to get and put the file in a new template structure, created a base VM and attached the qcow2 as a virtio disk. The original size once attached was 2GB with about 1.5GB already used. I want to resize this to...

Are there any plans to support VM replication where QCOW2 files are used

I'm running a VM where the boot drive is on ssd's. I'd like to have one of the directories on the OS be backed by my spinning rust pool. On lxc containers I can select a storage option and a path to mount it at within the container, how would I do something similar for a VM? I may have...

My end goal is for a non-root user to import a .qcow2 image in order to create a VM as part of a CI/CD pipeline. I'm currently trying to use the Ansible proxmox_kvm module. Unsurprisingly, I'm hitting the following error due to permissions issues: $ ansible-playbook -i inventory.yaml...

Please see attached image i am trying to remove it. I had a template but the 3 VM's i created i selected Full Clone to make them independent of the template But i cannot move it please can you tell me why or how i fix it? https://i.imgur.com/BtHRxDc.png qemu-img: Could not open...

I did a P to V for a windows machine that created a 175GB vhdx file and then when converting the vhdx file to qcow2 it now shows as 1TB, this makes no sense? The following command is what I used to convert the file: qemu-img convert -O qcow2 DELLM4400.vhdx DELLM4400.qcow2 -p

So Im trying to do the whole convert an existing baremetal windows installation to a KVM. I have been following this tutorial: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migration_of_servers_to_Proxmox_VE I just had to use different file locations because my PVE storage was too small for 240gb...

Hey every ! so here is my issue, I was doing some networking and had to shutdown my servers, but when I pluged back everything on (like always I have autorestart 1 day per week) But then.. my windows server wasn't booting up.. this is what I get : I think the VM image got deleted but I don't...

I recently reinstalled Proxmox on my system, and prior to the reinstallation, I had an OMV (OpenMediaVault) virtual machine (VM) running on a 4TB HDD (with 1.5TB of total storage in use). However, after reinstalling Proxmox, I encountered an issue when attempting to mount the disk again using...

Hello all, I have a few questions regarding qcow2 images sizes because right now I am really confuzed... Let me describe a bit about a situation I deal with. I have 1.4 TB array with contains just one single VM with 3 separated qcow2 images: # ls -lah -rw-r----- 1 root root 17G jun 14 10:44...

I'm trying to import a Tenable .ova into Proxmox so I follow these steps. 1) Downloaded the .ova from - https://www.tenable.com/downloads/tenable-appliance?loginAttemted=true&loginAttempted=true#tenablecore-nessus 2) Used scp to transfer it to my Proxmox 3) Then I used tar xvf example to get my...

Proxmox Version: 7.4-3 I am trying to install Arch Linux via the official cloud image, which lists Proxmox as a tested provider: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_Linux_on_a_VPS The page above details the Proxmox installation process in the table, with a link to the cloud image being...

Hello! For some reason, when I'm trying to convert a RAW disk, which is stored on zfs-local, to QCOW2, the format dropdown list is inactive. But if I try to move (Move Disc button) the disk to remote storage (SMB share), the dropdown is active. It seems like I've missed something during the...

Hi Everybody, a few days ago my pair of USB drives running my hypervisor (lesson learnt SATA SSDs on their way) crashed and have been corrupted. I have been able to access the NVME drive that the VMs ran on. This drive is intact I think, I have been able to access the qcow2 files from it and...

i will have a Snapshot from a VM, in Proxmox Web GUI I read: The current guest configuration does not support taking new snapshots - OK, i found some infos for here at the forum. i will convert my proxmox VM HD to qcow2, but, it is greyed out

Hi, I want to migrate form HyperV to Proxmox but keep my VMs. After some reading I found out that you can export the VMs from HyperV, convert them to qcow2 with Starwind V2V and continue to use the virtual hard disk in proxmox. After doing so I copied the filename.qcow2 file in the root...

I have some VMs on AWS that are running some very old applications that I'd like to move to Proxmox. I don't have a good way to reinstall/recreate the apps running on those VMs. We're talking code that's like 15 years old and the developers are long gone and I have no one that supports these...

Thats a storages i got pvesm status Name Type Status Total Used Available % NFS nfs active 1740348416 1443283968 208589824 82.93% NFS2 nfs active 1740348416 1617566720 34307072...