Adding an already existing virtual machine

ivan.a

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Hello,

I am trying to add physical machine on proxmox. The problem is a data space. However, I converted physical computer to VHDX and than VHDX to qcow2. It's working fine. But hard disk of that computer is 250GB and I do not have space on proxmox - HD space(root) 1.97% (1.86 GiB of 94.37 GiB)
So it says that I have total of 94.47GiB but I already have some containers and virtual computers that takes more than 700GB.
So this is steps I did:
I clicked on Create VM and create new virtual machine (empty). Than I changed config so it points to converted VHDX. And it's working fine. But problem is that image file (qcow2) is on storage. I want to move it on the server. When I move it to the server ( /var/lib/vz/images/108 ) it says that I do not have enught space.

cp: failed to extend ‘/var/lib/vz/images/108/Win2k3.qcow2’: No space left on device

So how to create this virtual machine with image that is located on the server, not storage?
 
To be clear,
basically I want to create virtual machine from existing qcow2 image file (on the proxmox server, not storage).
 

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